Board and Committee Secretary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly organised individual to join our team in the Trust HQ.

This is a crucial role within the Trust Secretariat team and requires an individual with excellent interpersonal skills and a wide experience in committee meeting management, with particular importance placed on attention to detail and providing a high standard of minute taking and action management.

The successful candidate will need to possess excellent organisational abilities vital in balancing competing priorities, be flexible, focused and be able to build relationships quickly. You will ideally be an experienced committee secretary with an in-depth understanding in providing support to Board/ Executive level leaders and be solution focused to manage the various competing priorities.

If you are passionate about working within the Trust HQ, are able to deliver a high quality service and have confidence in your abilities to lead and motivate - we want to hear from you!

The role be based at Ipswich Hospital, have you may be required to travel to our Colchester site when required in line with service needs.

Interviews will be held on Friday 16 June 2023 at Ipswich Hospital.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting the Board of Directors and some of our Board Committees, preparing papers, effective minuting of meetings and all administration, supported by the Trust Secretary. They will also provide Executive Assistant support to members of the Board including complex diary management, recognising the importance of confidentiality and sensitivity of issues and able to use the utmost discretion. The previous post holder remains in the team and will be able to provide advice.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

Find out about living and working with us -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.