Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
About
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care organisation, providing care in the community at over 20 health centres and clinics as well as services such as district nursing. We also provide services at the Royal Bolton Hospital.
We have three fundamental aims:
1. Best care for better health (for our patients and our community).
2. Responsible use of resources (for the taxpayer).
3. Valued, respected and proud (by our staff, patients and public).
We aim to:
1. Meet the health needs of our population.
2. Improve the safety and quality of care.
3. Improve patient experience.
4. Make our services more efficient.
Key details
Location
Site: Royal Bolton Hospital
Address: Minerva Road
Town: Bolton
Postcode: BL4 0JR
Major / Minor Region: Lancashire
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
Main area: Corporate Support
Interview date: 10/03/2025
Job overview
The Corporate Support Officer will support the Corporate Governance Manager in upholding the highest standards of corporate governance within the Trust and provide comprehensive administrative support to the Medical Director’s team. The post-holder must be able to manage a large and varied workload requiring a range of skills. The incumbent will be expected to operate with autonomy and initiative, prioritising their own time to ensure that deadlines are met and desired outcomes are achieved.
The role requires adapting to a dynamic and demanding office environment while maintaining exceptional focus and attention to detail on specific tasks. Flexibility in working hours is expected, adhering to agreed service standards.
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Corporate Governance
1. Ensure reports, supporting papers, minutes and action logs are available as required using advanced keyboard skills in the compilation of these documents for each Committee.
2. Ensure that sound procedures are followed for the management and control of documentation across the Trust for reporting to Committees and onwards to the Board of Directors.
3. Review and reprioritise workload independently in line with unplanned changes and conflicting priorities.
4. Produce high-quality written material including minutes, presentations and letters.
5. Assist with information returns to external organisations such as the external auditors.
Medical Director
1. Provide administrative support to the Medical Director’s Team. This will require the use of initiative when communicating urgent messages and requests to appropriate staff, ensuring requirements are dealt with.
2. Maintain the work plan for the Medical Director’s team and Divisional Medical Directors, ensuring updates and actions are supported and completed.
3. Assist with the updating of the Medical Director’s page on the intranet, ensuring content and information is up to date and relevant through working with the team.
Working for our organisation
The candidate will work alongside both the Corporate Governance and Medical Directors Teams and will also work closely with the Board of Directors, Council of Governors and Executive Assistants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Corporate Support Officer will support the Corporate Governance Manager in upholding the highest standards of corporate governance within the Trust and provide comprehensive administrative support to the Medical Director’s team. The post-holder must be able to manage a large and varied workload requiring a range of skills. The incumbent will be expected to operate with autonomy and initiative, prioritising their own time to ensure that deadlines are met and desired outcomes are achieved.
The role requires adapting to a dynamic and demanding office environment while maintaining exceptional focus and attention to detail on specific tasks. Flexibility in working hours is expected, adhering to agreed service standards.
The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture; if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits; please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Grade C Maths and English
* Willing to undertake further training relevant to the post
Desirable criteria
* Secretarial qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
* Admin experience working at a senior level and working as part of a team.
* High level working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
Desirable criteria
* Experience within an NHS or public sector organisation.
* Experience with Senior Leaders and Clinicians.
Documents
* Corporate Support Officer JD (, 280.4) PDF KB
* Corporate Support Officer PS (, 32.7) PDF KB
* Trust Profile (, 334.1) PDF KB
* What Makes Bolton Brilliant (, 924.2) JPG KB
* Applicants with a Disability (, 207.9) PDF KB
* Open letter (, 235.7) PDF KB
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Victoria Crompton
Job title: Corporate Governance Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01204 390821
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