Business Support Assistant

The Opportunity

As Business Support Assistant, you will provide essential corporate, administrative and project support that enables Health Innovation Wessex teams to deliver effectively. The role offers genuine variety and autonomy, with opportunities to coordinate high-profile meetings and events, contribute to programme delivery, improve ways of working and produce information that supports effective decision-making.

What You'll Be Responsible For

You will

• Provide day-to-day corporate administration and business support, including diary and schedule management and executive support.
• Support projects and workstreams through planning, monitoring, documentation, reporting and follow-up
• Organise meetings, workshops, conferences and events, including logistics, invitations, agendas, papers and technology arrangements
• Take accurate formal minutes and complex actions, and supporting timely completion of agreed actions
• Manage reporting schedules and compiling project and corporate returns to defined timescales
• Develop corporate documentation, business processes and standard operating procedures
• Create high-quality, visually engaging documents, presentations, reports and marketing assets using Microsoft 365 and other design applications
• Support evaluation and reporting through data collection, surveys, analysis and information management
• Monitor plans and timescales, taking appropriate action and escalating emerging risks and issues
• Build effective relationships with colleagues, NHS partners, universities, suppliers and other stakeholders
• Work flexibly across the organisation in response to changing priorities and business needs

Join Us

This is an exceptional opportunity for an organised and motivated business support professional who wants to make a lasting difference to health outcomes, healthcare transformation and economic growth.

If you are passionate about innovation, inspired by the future of the NHS and excited by the opportunity to shape the next chapter of Health Innovation Wessex, we would love to hear from you.

Together, we can accelerate innovation, improve lives and create a healthier future for Wessex and beyond .