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Job summary

Main area
Administration
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract
Secondment: 6 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
246-COR8124740
Employer
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Norfolk County Hall
Town
Norwich
Salary
£28,392 - £31,157 pa/pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/08/2026 23:59

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Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Leadership Administrator

NHS AfC: Band 4

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people's and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams.  We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience

Job overview

We are looking for an organised and proactive Senior Leadership Administrator to join our Corporate Medical Directorate. This is a varied and rewarding role, providing high-quality administrative, secretarial and business support to senior leaders including the Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Medical Director of Workforce and Medical Director for Standards.
 
If you are a confident administrator with leadership experience and a commitment to delivering high-quality support, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing complex diaries and correspondence, coordinating meetings, preparing reports and presentations, and ensuring the smooth running of key administrative processes. You will also provide supervision, support and development to administrative staff, helping to maintain excellent standards of service across the team.

This role requires excellent communication and organisational skills, the ability to manage competing priorities, and experience of working with a range of systems and stakeholders. You will play a key role in supporting service improvement initiatives and ensuring the Corporate Medical Directorate operates effectively and efficiently.

Working for our organisation

At Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, inclusion is at the heart of how we work. We are committed to creating a fair, transparent and accessible recruitment process where every candidate has the opportunity to succeed.

We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, particularly those currently underrepresented in our workforce. We recognise that not everyone has equal access to opportunities and are working to address this.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and ensuring all candidates receive a positive and equitable experience.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Benefits

Benefits included with this role are:-

  • NHS pension
  • a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
  • career progression
  • starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
  • staff physio service
  • NHS discounts and many more

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ 3 Business Administration or equivalent or willing to work towards.
Desirable criteria
  • Use of relevant systems such as Trac, ESR, Power BI, and HealthRoster.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience in a full range of admin/secretarial procedures and systems gained at senior level, including management experience.
  • Experience of working at PA level

Skills

Essential criteria
  • ICT skills including Microsoft (especially word processing, spreadsheets and presentations, e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint) or equivalent.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.We offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingWomens Staff NetworkCycle to Work

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katherine Worllley
Job title
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Email address
[email protected]
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