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Personal Assistant to Public Health Consultants

Ealing is a highly diverse and vibrant borough in the west of London. Home to around 370,000 people, it is the third largest borough by population in London and is an exciting, diverse and challenging place to live and work.

We are looking for a comprehensive business, secretarial and administrative personal assistant to support our busy Public Health Consultants.

Working as part of a busy Public Health team in Perceval House, you will be managing and maintaining the diaries of the Public Health Consultants, prioritising meetings and appointments to ensure that time is utilised effectively.

Candidates must have experience of secretarial and administrative processes, including excellent interpersonal skills both oral and written on confidential subjects.

Experience of managing competing priorities, the ability to manage sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy would also be required.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Organisation of senior Public Health leaders’ diaries and appointments


• Excellent communication skills


• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft applications to produce documents, presentations and spreadsheets.


• Producing accurate confidential minutes


• Working unsupervised at times


• Prioritising workloads to meet deadlines and working on your own initiative.

This role offers a great learning opportunity to learn about wider public health work and tackling inequalities in local authority settings and across a local borough-based partnership. The public health team has a strong learning ethos and provides a very supportive environment.

By joining Ealing, you will be part of a respected, innovative and diverse London borough with a strong reputation for its commitment to health and wellbeing. Public Health sits at the forefront of our early intervention and prevention work and our work is cross-cutting, working with other council departments and local strategic partners to affect system change.

Currently, the majority of staff are hybrid working, with 2 days a week attendance required in Perceval House and 3 days virtually from home (this may change depending on the needs of the department).

Ealing council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. Ealing follows safer recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults. A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required.

For a discussion in confidence, please contact Trevor Daniel, DanielT@ealing.gov.uk Please use “PA to Public Health Consultants” in your email heading.