We are looking for a skilled and highly organised Administration Manager & Personal Assistant is required to deliver comprehensive, high-level secretarial and administrative support to the Deputy Chief Nurse and Senior Leadership Team.
This is a key role requiring a proactive, forward-thinking individual who can operate with autonomy, discretion, and professionalism in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. You will play a vital role in supporting senior leadership, ensuring effective coordination of activities and helping to drive organisational efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver a comprehensive and confidential secretarial and administrative support service to the Deputy Chief Nurse and Senior Leadership Team
Manage complex diaries, meetings, agendas, and correspondence
Act as a central point of contact, managing enquiries and communications with professionalism and discretion
Support the coordination and delivery of leadership priorities, projects, and initiatives
Line manage and support administrative staff (where applicable), ensuring high standards of service delivery
Proactively review and improve administrative processes to enhance efficiency and performance
Anticipate the needs of senior leaders and respond effectively to changing priorities
Provide high-level, dedicated PA support to the Deputy Chief Nurse, acting as a trusted first point of contact for all communications. You will expertly manage a complex and ever-changing diary, coordinate meetings, and deliver seamless administrative support, including the organisation of key events such as conferences.
Work collaboratively with senior leads across the portfolio to coordinate and support a wide range of activities. This will include arranging meetings, preparing high-quality agendas and papers, capturing accurate minutes, and proactively monitoring actions to ensure timely progress and delivery. You will play a key role in supporting service development by assisting in the preparation of projects, reports, audits, and performance data.
Using departmental information, you will produce clear and insightful reports for the Deputy Chief Nurse and Senior Leadership Team, helping to inform decision-making and drive improvement. You will also develop and maintain effective systems, databases, and information resources, enabling the team to operate efficiently and deliver high-quality outcomes.
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
