Job overview
Are you looking to take your Executive Assistant career to the next level?
Are you ready to be part of a team of highly professional and motivated EAs in a role that offers career progression?
YES! Read on…
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Executive Assistant to support our Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive officers. The primary focus of this Executive Assistant position is to enhance their effectiveness by providing proactive support. The role requires an enthusiastic and highly adaptable approach to working in a dynamic environment.
The successful Executive Assistant will be based at the Trust Headquarters at the John Radcliffe Hospital with the opportunity for some home working. You will be part of a team of highly motivated EAs who each support a different Chief Officer but equally all support each other when needed.
This role offers a great opportunity for either an existing Executive Assistant or Personal Assistant to enhance their career by working with a Chief Officer at a world-renowned centre of excellence and one of the largest teaching hospitals in the UK. This role also offers the successful candidate the opportunity for career progression, by taking your transferable skills into a Business Manager or Project Manager position.
Main duties of the job
This is a fast-paced, demanding, yet highly rewarding role. Your main duties will relate to providing proactive support to the Chief Executive and Deputy Chief Executive Officers. This includes:
1. Diary management
2. Email/correspondence management, prioritisation and action
3. Committee meeting agenda and paper preparations, transcribing and minute taking, and report writing as required
4. Understand the Chief Officer’s short, medium and long-term priorities and providing bespoke and flexible support as new priorities emerge.
5. Working collaboratively with other EAs as necessary
6. Working with key stakeholders (both internally and externally) on specific tasks and projects
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.