We are recruiting for a Personal Assistant and Governance Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be instrumental in providing professional, proactive and flexible support to the Chief Pharmacist, offering a range of administrative and business support services to ensure the efficient and professional running of the key responsibilities which include managing the governance processes for policies, guidelines, and PGDs.
The post holder will offer effective day-to-day management of the Chief Pharmacist and Head of Clinical Services office; applying excellent judgement, discretion, and initiative, combined with excelled organisation, prioritisation, and analytical skills.
You will be responsible for maintaining and managing the diaries, using initiative and own judgement to prioritise the work schedule in accordance with changing priorities.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
To provide confidential and comprehensive support to the Chief Pharmacist incorporating secretarial, administrative, and clerical support to the Deputy Chief Pharmacist and Senior Clinical Team.
The role will involve organising stakeholder events, creating reports, drawing up action plans, preparing presentations, and producing policies to support the Chief Pharmacist. It will require a high level of confidentiality, proactive forward planning, and autonomous working within a highly demanding and pressurised environment.
To be the Department Health and Safety Competent Person, responsible for risk assessments.
To be responsible for updating Patient Group Directions (PGDs) for presentation at the Therapeutics Policy Committee meetings, liaising with the Chief Pharmacist and Lead Nurse Specialists, ensuring that each PGD has been updated accurately. To keep a database of all PGDs, alerting the Chief Pharmacist when PGDs are due for review.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide, and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns, and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
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