Administrative Co-ordinator/PA

Job summary

Main duties of the job

As PA to the Divisional Director, you will provide exceptional administrative and organisational support, helping to ensure the department runs seamlessly day to day. You will provide professional diary management, coordinate meetings, and ensuring key priorities are always met. You will prepare agendas, take accurate and well-structured minutes, and follow up on actions with precision and professionalism.

You'll also provide a comprehensive Administrative Co-ordinator support to our anaesthetist and ICU consultants, handling a broad range of correspondence and documentation. This includes typing and collating/distributing rotas, producing letters and presentations, and preparing other clinical and administrative documents to the highest standard of accuracy and confidentiality.

This role involves day-to-day supervision of staff within your area. This means leading by example -- motivating, mentoring, guiding staff and ensuring effective communication across the team. You'll play a vital role in fostering a positive, inclusive, and supportive working culture where everyone feels valued and empowered to do their best work.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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