Personal Assistant to Director of Public Health

Role Responsibility

We have an exciting opportunity that have arisen for a professional Personal Assistant to provide a comprehensive high level administrative support to the Director of Public Health to ensure the effective delivery in their role.

As part of this role, you will be working alongside Public Health’s Senior Business Officer and administration team who support the whole Public Health Division.

As well as the experience, skills and knowledge outlined in the person specification, applicants should be able to demonstrate the following:

• positive, resilient and proactive in your approach to work
• highly organised with an excellent attention to detail
• an excellent communicator, both in writing and over the telephone
• computer literate in a range of Microsoft Office packages
• able to work confidently to ensure deadlines are met
• able to exercise total confidentiality and the highest degree of tact and diplomacy in dealings with external stakeholders, senior officers, service users and staff, at times involving complex matters
• experienced in minuting meetings
• Experienced in diary management
• able to use your own initiative, knowledge, and experience to arrive at appropriate solutions to problems

The environment can be fast-paced and demanding; the successful candidate will be someone who can also work successfully on their own projects as well as able to work well in a team.  You will need to be able to demonstrate that you are self-motivated and a self-starter.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Interview dates: week commencing 18 March 2024

Contact Details

For further information on this role please contact either Kimberly Olive on 03000419572 or Pam McConnell on 07766028632

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.