Personal Assistant to Clinical Director of Therapies

The Therapy Directorate is seeking a Personal Assistant to provide a full, confidential, administrative, secretarial service to the Therapy Triumvirate (Clinical Director of Therapies, General Manager and Quality Lead). This requires excellent time management, organisational and communication skills both with internal and external organisations and an adaptable, flexible approach to produce work within required timescales.

• To proactively provide support to the Clinical Director of Therapies, General Manager and Quality Lead,
• To manage efficiently the Therapy Triumvirate Microsoft Office diaries. Schedule, making appointments, arranging meetings (both internal and external), booking venues, organising catering and travel arrangements as required, some of which may be multi stranded and complex in nature and involve the formulation and adjustment of plans.
• To receive and prioritise mail, both electronic and hard copy, and wherever possible respond to or delegate for draft response on behalf of the Clinical Director of Therapies, General Manager and Quality Lead, ensuring that all urgent matters are attended to in a timely fashion.
• To draft and type: correspondence, agendas, minutes and reports- prioritising as necessary to ensure that organisational deadlines and priorities are achieved.
• To maintain management health roster for staff annual leave /overtime / on call/ study leave and work pattern changes where required.
• Compilation of monthly key performance reports including activity, workforce, governance and practice development data
• To prepare power point presentations for meetings
• To compile and publish a bi-monthly newsletter for the Therapy directorate
  
  

In this year's NHS staff survey, our employees voted to recommend us as an employer, positioning us as the second most recommended NHS Trust in the South East.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alison Jankowski Job title: Therapies Strategy Lead Email address: [email protected]