EA to the Clinical Director, Assoc Medical Director and Head of P&P


Location
Beckenham, England
Salary
£38,488 - £46,852 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS
Profession
Medical director
Grade
Band 5
Deadline
15 Nov 2026
Contract Type
12 months (Fixed term)
Posted Date
30 Oct 2026
Medical Protection — the side of locally employed doctors from £83

Job requirements

Essential

17 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Experience

    Extensive administration experience with a thorough working knowledge of efficient and effective office procedures

  • Experience

    Senior level secretarial and administration experience

  • Experience

    Experience of organising large events and meetings involving both internal and external agencies

  • Experience

    Experience of minute taking and transcribing detailed notes and minutes of meetings

  • Experience

    Experience of managing the "front of house" service for an office and team

  • Qualifications

    Educated to degree level (or equivalent)

  • Knowledge and Skills

    In depth knowledge of general admin procedures

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Excellent written skills including grammar, spelling and punctuation

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Excellent keyboard & IT skills, including the ability to use the MS Office packages Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills. This includes the ability to tailor communication styles to engage with a range of staff, senior clinicians and managers

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to create, develop and maintain computer-based systems including spreadsheets and databases

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Producing correspondence, reports, spreadsheets and presentational material

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to communicate complex, sensitive information with a range of staff both within and outside the organisation. To liaise with a variety of external partner agencies and organisations, negotiating and persuasive skills are required

  • Knowledge and Skills

    To liaise with a variety of external partner agencies and organisations, negotiating and persuasive skills are required

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Excellent self and time management skills. Ability to organise and prioritise own workload and to work autonomously and unsupervised, seeking advice when necessary

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Able to investigate a variety of issues, to propose solutions and to deal appropriately with complex enquiries

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Able to work flexibly in an ever changing environment

Desirable

5 listed

Additional qualities the employer would prefer.

  • Experience

    Experience of working in an NHS Environment or similar complex environment

  • Experience

    Experience of working within a framework of confidentiality

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Understanding of mental health issues

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to be flexible and work to strict deadlines

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Knowledge of electronic ‘Patients Journey’ System

Job overview

To provide a fully comprehensive and first-class business administration service to the Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director and Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy, CAMHS. Front of house, reputation and professional response is essential to achieve this. The post holder will deal with a broad range of very complex and sensitive issues and be a key point of contact, dealing with a wide range of staff and patients across the Trust, with external partners, the independent and private sectors.

To be a key resource to the Senior Management Team; ensuring the delivery of key operational and strategic objectives. This will result in the post holder leading and having responsibility for the development and implementation of specific projects and functions such as the various on-call rota’s, Medical recruitment and CT induction programme.

Main duties of the job

  • To provide high level administration support to the Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director and Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy, CAMHS. This may include functions such , arranging local, national or international visits.
  • To provide high level diary management support to the Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director and Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy.
  • To be responsible for ensuring the Senior Management team operates efficiently and effectively. This will include:
  • Providing high level administrative and diary management support to sensitive and highly confidential situations.
  • Management and support to Senior Management meetings including organising meetings, taking minutes and following up on actions
  • Supporting the On-Call rotas.
  • Organising all aspects relating to the recruitment of staff including the completion of ECFs, Job description liaison, advertising vacancies internally and externally and co-ordinating the interview process.
  • To organize and facilitate Honorary SLaM Contracts within the service.
  • Responding to a wide range of requests, enquiries and problems from Trust Board Level downwards and from the private and independent sectors. You will take action to ensure they are dealt with and resolved quickly, efficiently and sensitively as possible. You will be required to show a high level of discretion.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Key Responsibilities
  • To provide high level administration support to the Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director and Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy, CAMHS. This may include functions such as booking travel arrangements, arranging local, national or international visits.
  • To provide high level diary management support to the Clinical Director, Associate Medical Director and Head of Psychology and Psychotherapy, CAMHS.
  • To Support other Senior Leadership Group members as required.
  • Providing high level administrative and diary management support to sensitive and highly confidential situations.
  • Management and support to Senior Management meetings including organising meetings, taking minutes and following up on actions
  • Supporting the various On-Call rotas and leads.
  • To Organise and administer the CT Induction Programme, ensuing feedback and evaluation of the training is in place
  • To maintain annual leave, study leave and sickness and absence recording on behalf of the Medical Consultants.
  • To provide a front of house service for the senior management offices, including managing the supplies ordering process, as well as general housekeeping.
  • To support the administration team in ensuring that all admin and office process documents, structure charts and contact lists are maintained and that they are communicated throughout the Directorate as appropriate.
  • To support the coordination and dissemination of teaching, training and education materials across the Directorate.
  • To provide cross-cover in the event of absence within the senior leadership admin team.
  • To coordinate events for both internal and external agencies such as team building events, structured away time, functions, conferences, workshops and visits from external organisations.
  • *Please refer to the job description for further details.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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This advert is for EA to the Clinical Director, Assoc Medical Director and Head of P&P with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Beckenham, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Medical director role. The advertised salary is £38,488 - £46,852 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is 12 months (Fixed term). The application deadline is 15 Nov 2026.

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