Personal Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role involves providing comprehensive personal assistant support to designated Directors within the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. Key duties include managing diaries, handling communications, preparing documents, and ensuring Directors are fully briefed on important issues. The post also requires contributing to the wider personal assistant team to maintain a high-quality service. The role is primarily on-site in Reading, with some flexibility possible.
Key responsibilities
- Provide a full personal assistant service to designated Directors, ensuring smooth organisation and execution of their responsibilities.
- Act as the first point of contact for Directors' visitors and callers, providing information and guidance while enhancing the Trust's reputation.
- Manage Directors' diaries, making decisions on appointments based on priorities and workload.
- Type, format, design, and create correspondence, reports, and presentations on behalf of the Director.
- Prepare agendas, take notes, and transcribe minutes for specified Trust committees.
Essential criteria
- Good general education level or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination or alternative study, employment or voluntary work.
- In depth experience of working as a senior secretary or personal assistant for a manager/clinician operating at a senior level within an organisation
- Ability to develop and maintain communication, both verbally and in writing, to all levels of staff, patients, the public and managers from different organisations about often sensitive, complex or difficult issues
- Ability to take and transcribe formal minutes
- Experience of working in a complex organisational environment, either in the NHS, elsewhere in the public sector or in a private or voluntary sector organisation
- Demonstrates Knowledge of Care Values
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a complex organisational environment, either in the NHS, elsewhere in the public sector or in a private or voluntary sector organisation
- RSA II or above or equivalent skills
- In depth experience of working as a senior secretary or personal assistant for a manager/clinician operating at a senior level within an organisation
- Demonstrates Knowledge of Care Values
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Personal Assistant
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
Job Purpose:
To provide a comprehensive personal assistant service to designated directors ensuring that they receive the support needed to facilitate the performance of their role
As a member of the personal assistant team to also help ensure the provision of a consistent, high-quality service by providing support to the Chair and all Directors as and when required.
Note -
- The role is on-site 5 days a week in Reading (with the option to be flexible one day if service allows).
- The essential criteria: minimum of 2 years' direct PA experience.
- Candidates can contact by email ahead of applying [email removed]
Main duties of the job
Personal Assistant Responsibilities
1. To provide a full personal assistant service to either designated Directors in order to help ensure the smooth and efficient organisation and carrying out of their responsibilities.
2. To be the first point of contact for the Directors' visitors and telephone callers, providing callers with the information, advice and guidance to meet their needs. To ensure that all visitors and callers are handled in a manner that enhances the reputation of the Directors, the Executive and of the Trust.
4. To ensure that the Director is fully briefed on issues as they arise, determ
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