A rare opportunity to work at the heart of senior clinical leadership
Are you exceptionally organised, calm under pressure and at your best when supporting senior leaders in a busy, high-trust environment?
We are looking for an outstanding Executive Support Officer (Clinical) to provide high-level support to our Clinical Director and administrative support to our Associate Directors (Clinical), helping to keep an ambitious and fast-moving clinical directorate running smoothly and effectively.
This role is primarily office-based in Taunton, with some travel to Yeovil and occasional flexibility required to support key meetings and events.
What can you expect to be doing?
This is far more than a traditional administrative role. It is a chance to become a trusted part of the infrastructure that underpins excellent leadership, strong governance, regulatory assurance and outstanding care for our community in Somerset.
You will be at the centre of senior decision-making and delivery, coordinating complex diaries, meetings, papers, actions and communications; supporting key clinical governance forums; and helping ensure that important work is well organised, followed through and delivered on time.
If you enjoy variety, pace and purpose, this role offers all three. One day you may be preparing high-quality briefing packs and presentations; the next, tracking actions from senior meetings, supporting leadership events, coordinating stakeholder communications or helping maintain the records and systems that support a safe, well-run and forward-looking clinical service.
You will work closely with senior leaders at Director level, building trusted relationships across clinical teams and with colleagues in Communications, Fundraising, IT, Finance, Governance, HR and Estates, as well as with external partners.
What will you be good at?
This role would suit someone who:
In return, you will have the opportunity to contribute to work that really matters: supporting leadership across quality, safety, safeguarding, infection prevention and wider strategic delivery in a hospice that is compassionate, collaborative and ambitious.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. If your experience broadly matches the role and you’re motivated to make a difference, we encourage you to apply.
If you need adjustments during recruitment, please contact recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk.
Why join St Margaret’s Hospice?
You won’t just be joining a fantastic team — you’ll become part of a welcoming, community-minded charity making a real difference every day.
We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment alongside a range of benefits including:
*Eligibility criteria applies
Want to Apply or Find Out More?
If you want to get to know our team or have an informal chat before applying, please get in touch recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk
We are currently managing the recruitment process in-house and kindly ask that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us with candidates for this role.
If you are looking for a role that is busy, stretching, meaningful and genuinely integral to how a senior clinical service operates, we would love to hear from you.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time.
St Margaret's Hospice are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of those who use our services.
As part of our safer recruitment processes, all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks relevant to the role. These may include verification of identity, right to work, references, qualifications, and other regulatory, fraud prevention, and compliance checks.
St Margaret’s Hospice Care is a registered charity which has been at the heart of Somerset’s community, making each day count for over 45 years. We strive to delivery of high quality, responsive, compassionate care to patients and their families facing a life-limiting illness.
Through our medical expertise, nursing skills and specialist support services, we provide physical, emotional and spiritual care to over 5,000 patients and their families each year.
We put our patients at the heart of all we do; treating symptoms, controlling pain and caring for their emotional, psychological and spiritual needs. We support the whole family through a wide range of services such as intensive care in our In-Patient Unit, care at home, complimentary therapies and bereavement support for those who need it. We also support a wide range of support to carers, young and old. We provide care and support for families and friends for as long as they need us. We rely on over 1900 volunteers to help deliver our care.
Hospices are normally associated with cancer. We care for anyone with a life-limiting illness including motor-neurone disease, cardiac failure, renal failure, chronic respiratory disease and other life-limiting conditions.
We provide our services for free. St Margaret’s is a charity – we are not part of the NHS. Our income comes from the NHS and charitable sources from our local community. It costs over £15m each year to deliver our care. We are dependent upon the generosity of our Somerset community to help raise £12million.
