Executive Assistant to Chief Finance Officer

We are looking for an exceptional Executive Assistant to partner with our Chief Finance Officer, providing high-level executive support at the centre of a complex, fast-moving organisation. This is a role for someone who thrives on influence, pace, discretion and impact -- someone who wants to be more than a PA, and who is motivated by working at Board and system level. The Opportunity As Executive Assistant to the CFO, you will operate as a trusted professional partner, enabling executive decision-making and ensuring the smooth running of a demanding and strategically critical portfolio. You will gain unrivalled exposure to executive leadership, financial strategy, governance and system-wide working, contributing directly to the effectiveness of the organisation's senior leadership. You will work with confidence across the Executive Team, Board members, senior clinicians, regulators and external partners, acting as a central point of co-ordination and assurance.,

• Managing complex executive diaries and communications
• Producing and coordinating executivelevel papers, reports and briefings
• Supporting Board and Committee governance
• Recording and tracking actions and decisions
  
  You will be an experienced, confident Executive Assistant who is confident working with senior leaders, highly organised, and values driven.
  
  Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour