An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly organised and proactive Executive Assistant (EA) to join the Medicines Manufacturing Centre (MMC)—a cutting-edge NHS pharmaceutical production facility based in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland. This role is critical in supporting the senior leadership team, ensuring the smooth running of MMC as it transitions from design and build into full-scale production.
As Executive Assistant, you will provide high-level administrative support to the MMC leadership team, helping to drive forward our mission of delivering sterile injectable medicines to NHS hospitals. Your role will help ensure a secure supply chain for Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) products and the production of Ready-to-Administer (RtA) medicines, ultimately freeing up nurses’ time for patient care.
Why This Role Matters
At MMC, patients and quality are at the heart of everything we do. As Executive Assistant, you will be a key enabler in ensuring the leadership team operates at peak efficiency, allowing them to focus on delivering safe, high-quality, and life-saving medicines for NHS patients.
What You’ll Be Doing
Providing comprehensive administrative support to senior leaders
Managing diaries, meetings, and correspondence efficiently and professionally
Assisting with project coordination, ensuring key deadlines are met
Preparing reports, presentations, and documentation for regulatory and operational needs
Handling confidential and sensitive information with discretion and professionalism
Supporting the wider MMC team in building a collaborative and high-performance culture
Working at MMC
The MMC is in its final design stages, with facility construction planned through to September 2025. Initially, staff will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust, with employment transferring to the Medicines Manufacturing Centre Legal Liability Partnership (LLP) upon its formation under TUPE regulations.
This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a pioneering NHS manufacturing facility, supporting a leadership team committed to quality, innovation, and patient care.
If you are highly organised, detail-oriented, and passionate about making a difference behind the scenes, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply today and be part of something truly transformational.
• To support the management team in the delivery of services to meet high quality care and performance targets set out by the MMC.
• To act as project support assistant or project lead when required.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the MMC. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Sunday 23 Feb 2025
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