Cancer Directorate Administrative Assistant

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self‑motivated individual to join the Cancer Directorate, providing high‑quality administrative support.

We are seeking a well‑organised team player with excellent communication skills, who thrives in a busy, challenging yet rewarding environment. You should demonstrate a positive approach to change and be highly motivated to work both effectively and efficiently.

In this role, you will support departmental operations by preparing and circulating meeting agendas, taking accurate minutes, and ensuring timely follow‑up of agreed actions. You will manage shared inboxes, including coordinating room booking requests, and act as a key point of contact for day‑to‑day enquiries. The postholder will also process invoices, support the raising of purchase orders, and provide general administrative support across the department to ensure smooth and efficient service delivery.

This is a hybrid role, incorporating a combination of onsite and home working.

Main duties of the job

To provide a professional, effective and efficient administrative and secretarial service to the Cancer Directorate and associated specialties/teams and its users including patients, relatives and colleagues.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment -    or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on the 26th April 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on the 6th May 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.