Senior Assistant

Main area Utilisation Management - Prior Approval and Exceptional Cases Grade NHS AfC:
Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

Employer Central East Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site NHS Central East Integrated Care Board (ICB), Gemini House Town Ely, Cambridgeshire Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/09/2026 23:59

We are Central East ICB, the new organisation entrusted with serving more than 3.5 million people across Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and Hertfordshire.

We are responsible for making sure that the NHS can continue to support our community – now, and in the future. Everything we do will be guided by our core purpose: to do what best serves the population of this area.

We promise to focus on what makes the biggest difference to people’s lives – acting earlier to help prevent illness and detect disease and making it easier for our community to get the health care they need, closer to home, whenever that’s possible.

Read about our priorities in our strategy document, Our Way .

The Senior Assistant Administrator provides high quality administrative, coordination, and organisational support across a range of corporate and programme functions within the ICB. Working closely with senior managers, programme leads, and HR and finance teams, the postholder ensures smooth day to day operations, effective governance, and timely delivery of key activities. This role supports people related processes, financial administration, and programme and project delivery, contributing to efficient service management and strong organisational performance.

The postholder acts as a reliable point of contact, maintains accurate records and reporting, and helps ensure that teams are well supported to deliver strategic priorities across the Integrated Care System. The post holder supports production of high quality written outputs from the Directorate Team.

Provide comprehensive administrative support to programme and project teams, including scheduling, documentation, reporting, and coordination of key activities.

Provide comprehensive administrative support for internal communications activities, including scheduling, document management, and coordination with team members to ensure smooth delivery of projects.

Assist in drafting, editing, and publishing engaging content across internal channels, such as newsletters, intranet updates, and staff announcements, ensuring accuracy and consistency of messaging.

Support HR-related processes such as recruitment administration, onboarding, maintaining workforce records, and coordinating mandatory training compliance.

Assist with financial administration, including raising purchase orders, processing invoices, tracking budgets, and supporting financial reporting

We are committed to promoting equal opportunities to achieve equity of access, experience and outcomes and to recognising and valuing people’s differences. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity; we see this as a strength and part of our founding mission, values and behaviours. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers patient outcomes.

We are committed to creating the best place to work, where your contribution is valued, your wellbeing is supported and all our colleagues can reach their full potential. We welcome and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of their protected…