An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team as a Business Unit Secretary within the Surgical Directorate. Applications are invited from a suitably qualified and experienced candidate to join our busy administrative team to provide administrative support to the Management team within the Surgical Directorate Trust wide.
This successful candidate will be expected to travel Trust wide.
The post holder must be able to use own initiative, work under pressure, keep to strict deadlines and have excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
The primary purpose of this role is to Support the Senior Management team within the Business Unit with all administrative and clerical duties.
The post holder will be responsible for diary management, meeting preparation and minute taking and ordering and Procurement to ensure a high quality and consistent service is maintained at all times.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
To provide a high quality comprehensive secretarial and administrative support service to the Senior Leadership team within the Surgical Business Unit.
To provide support to the Senior Leadership team within the surgical business unit.
Some supervisory responsibility for all directorate secretaries/clerical support in the absence of Senior Secretaries.
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Oct 2024
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