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This permanent post is for the Chief Officer Health & Social Care and will work across 2 locations, predominantly in the NHS Borders, Headquarters on the Borders General Hospital site as well as the Scottish Borders Council Headquarters at Newtown St Boswells.
This post is key to providing high quality confidential administrative and business support management to the Chief Officer and Chief Financial Officer linking with the partner organisations, managing competing demands and undertaking a range of delegated projects.
Key tasks will include assisting with the prioritisation of incoming workload; triaging emails and highlighting priorities; diary management; working collaboratively with other Board Executive Team and Corporate Management Team PAs; proactively managing and actioning a broad range of complex tasks including ensuring relevant follow up action is taken; keeping track of daily actions and priorities for the Chief Officers and pre-empting their needs and deadlines; organising meetings, issuing agendas and papers, the production of formal minutes and action notes and follow up of actions between meetings; preparing a range of internal/external correspondence, papers and presentations in a timely and accurate manner.
Applicants should possess excellent communication and organisational skills together with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Powerpoint, Excel and O365.
Informal enquiries welcomed by Iris Bishop, Board Secretary Email: iris.bishop@borders.scot.nhs.uk or Tel: 01896 825525 and Chris Myers, Chief Officer Health & Social Care Email: chris.myers1@borders.scot.nhs.uk and Hazel Robertson, Chief Financial Officer Email: hazel.robertson3@borders.scot.nhs.uk
***PLEASE NOTE: We cannot accept late applications so please ensure your application is submitted early***
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.