Corporate Support Officer
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 with 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
Main duties of the job
Corporate Governance
Ensure reports, supporting papers, minutes and action logs are available as required using advance keyboard skills in the compilation of these documents for each Committee.
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.
Review and reprioritise workload independently in line with unplanned changes and conflicting priorities.
Produce high quality written material including minutes, presentations and letters.
Assist with information returns to external organisations such as the external auditors.
Medical Director
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.
Maintain the work plan for the Medical Director’s team and Divisional Medical Directors, ensuring updates and actions are supported and completed.
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 the 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 with 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Grade C Maths and English
- Willing to undertake further training relevant to the post
- 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.
- Experience within an NHS or public sector organisation.
- Experience with Senior Leaders and Clinicians.
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 (boltonft.nhs.uk)
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.