Now is an excellent time to consider a career move at Royal Papworth Hospital. We have an exciting career development opportunity to join our small team, supporting mainly the Chief Nurse and Deputy Chief Nurse, but also the other members of the Board.

The Chief Nurse has a wide ranging and exciting portfolio and therefore requires a dynamic individual who is able to keep pace with the challenging demands of this role and the wider senior nursing management team, whilst remaining calm under pressure.

Main duties of the job

You will have excellent communication skills together with exceptional organisational and administrative abilities. Responsibilities will include extensive diary management, servicing of Board level committees which will include ensuring meetings are efficiently organised, minuted and facilitating the effective flow of business between meetings. Efficient administrative support required for the high level and challenging projects undertaken by the nursing team.

This is a diverse and demanding role that requires high levels of confidentiality, an innate ability to prioritise under your own initiative, whilst having a flexible approach to the demands of this role whilst working closely with your EA colleagues to provide a professional support service to the Executive team at this CQC rated Outstanding organisation.

Applicants must possess excellent secretarial and digital skills, a natural attention to detail, together with relevant experience of working for a Director/Senior Manager.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience or equivalent training and experience.
• Evidence of continued learning and development.
• Secretarial qualification or equivalent
• OCR RSA Word Processing Level 3
• OCR RSA Text Processing Level 2

Desirable

• Management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience with administrative procedures in a busy department.
• Proven experience and ability to communicate across organisational boundaries.
• Ability to make decisions and work on own initiative.
• Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to analyse and interpret data using Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent oral and written skills.
• Ability to delegate and motivate staff.

Desirable

• Proven experience in people management
• Experience in the management of financial resources.
• ECDL or equivalent

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

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