Personal Secretary - Cancer Services, Airdrie

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

To ensure the efficient and effective running of the Management offices by providing a comprehensive personal secretarial/administrative support service, including secretarial support, diary management, organising meetings and various other duties over the whole range of responsibilities.

Please note this is a fixed term post for 12 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post.

• Provide comprehensive, high-level secretarial/administrative assistance to the Manager to ensure smooth and effective running of the office to meet all deadlines.
• Typing of department documentation, e.g. letters, minutes, memos, PowerPoint presentations, mail shots, reports, Excel spreadsheets.
• Manage diary commitments and schedule meetings at Director/Divisional Management Team/Hospital Management Team level, to ensure effective time management for the Manager; organise venues, conference equipment and catering as required.
• Manage the manager’s e‑mail system, e.g. prioritising urgent information that needs to be dealt with and passed on to relevant Managers.

• HNC/SVQIII in Secretarial Studies / Business Administration or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4–5 years experience as a Management Secretary.
• Proficient in the use of software systems.
• Advanced keyboard skills.

• Annual Leave – 35 days including public holidays.
• Generous NHS pension scheme.
• Annual incremental salary progression.
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service.
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent – regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

*Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.