Directorate Senior Support Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role provides high-level administrative support to the Executive Director of Workforce and Organisational Development and the Corporate Workforce and OD Senior Team. The postholder will manage diaries, prepare meeting agendas and minutes, and handle complex reports and correspondence. It requires working independently, prioritising tasks, and maintaining confidentiality within a demanding workload. The role is crucial for supporting the directorate's operations and contributing to the Trust's strategic goals.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree standard or equivalent
- ECDL or equivalent
- Knowledge, Experience, and Expertise
- Evidence of practical experience in a PA role
- Ability to cope with a demanding workload
- Substantial experience of Microsoft Office
- Substantial knowledge and experience of the NHS
- Advanced keyboard skills to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and speed
- Demonstrate a high level of motivation and confidence in the role
- Ability to minute meetings and produce and accurate record
- Work effectively as part of the Executive PA team
- Communication and Relationships
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels
- Qualifications and Training
- Educated to degree standard or equivalent
- ECDL or equivalent
- Knowledge, Experience, and Expertise
- Evidence of practical experience in a PA role
- Ability to cope with a demanding workload
- Substantial experience of Microsoft Office
- Substantial knowledge and experience of the NHS
- Advanced keyboard skills to demonstrate a high level of accuracy and speed
- Demonstrate a high level of motivation and confidence in the role
- Ability to minute meetings and produce and accurate record
- Work effectively as part of the Executive PA team
- Communication and Relationships
- Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels
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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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Directorate Senior Support Officer
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for an experienced applicant to provide high level and comprehensive senior administrative support to the Executive Director of Workforce and Organisational Development, who is a member of the Executive Team and Board of Directors, and to the Corporate Workforce and OD Senior Team.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will carry out a range of high level administrative and coordination duties across the Workforce and Organisational Development directorate.
The postholder will work with Directorate Support Officers across the Trust who provide expert administrative and coordination activities across the Executive Director team.
About us
CHFT is an integrated acute and community Trust serving diverse communities across Calderdale and Kirklees, with strong partnerships across West Yorkshire. We are proud of our One Culture of Care -- caring for each other with the same compassion, kindness and respect that we show our patients -- and of the values that underpin how we work: we put people first, we go see, we work together to get results, and we do the must dos.
CHFT is recognised as a forward looking, digitally enabled Trust, with a strong track record of using data, innovation and system collaboration to i
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