St Margaret's Hospice Care
Executive Business Partner
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Join a purpose-driven organisation where your work will help enable outstanding, compassionate care across Somerset.
At St Margaret’s Hospice, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for an experienced, highly organised and proactive professional to provide strategic executive and governance support to our CEO, Executive Team, Board of Trustees and committees.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the heart of St Margaret's Hospice, partnering closely with the CEO, Executive Team and Board of Trustees. You'll have visibility across the organisation, contribute to strategic priorities and play a key part in ensuring our leadership and governance arrangements enable outstanding care for people across Somerset.
This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same. You will work closely with senior leaders, trustees, colleagues and external stakeholders, helping ensure the smooth running of executive, corporate and governance activity across the hospice.
Role Details
- Salary: £33,500 per annum
- Working pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with some evening work
- Contract: Permanent
- Location: Based at either Taunton or Yeovil, with occasional travel between sites or to other locations
- Hybrid working: Option to work up to half the week from home
What can you expect to be doing?
This is a key role supporting the CEO, Executive Team and wider organisation through professional, proactive and strategically focused business support.
You will work closely with the CEO and Executive Team to anticipate priorities, coordinate activity across the organisation and maintain oversight of actions, commitments and governance requirements. Through effective planning, communication and follow-through, you will help support delivery of organisational priorities and strategic objectives.
You will also provide high-quality support to the Board and committees, including meeting coordination, agenda and paper preparation, minute taking, action tracking and governance record keeping.
You will:
- Act as a trusted business partner to the CEO and Executive Team, helping coordinate priorities, commitments and organisational activity.
- Provide high-level executive support, including diary management, briefings, correspondence and stakeholder liaison.
- Support the effective operation of the Board and committees through governance coordination and administration.
- Monitor actions, priorities and workstreams, helping ensure organisational objectives continue to progress.
- Coordinate key meetings, events and engagement activities involving senior leaders, trustees and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to continuous improvement across systems, processes and ways of working.
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What will you be good at?
We’re looking for someone who brings:
- Significant experience in an Executive Assistant, Executive Support, Business Partner or comparable senior coordination role.
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities with confidence.
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with experience working alongside senior leaders and stakeholders.
- The ability to exercise sound judgement, work autonomously and handle confidential information with discretion.
- Experience coordinating meetings, actions, projects or governance activity and ensuring effective follow-through.
- Strong attention to detail and confidence producing high-quality documentation and communications.
- Good Microsoft Office skills and a proactive approach to improving processes and ways of working.
- A values-led approach, with sensitivity to working in a hospice environment.
Experience supporting Boards or Trustees, and experience within a charity, healthcare or regulated environment, would be advantageous.
Our Values
At St Margaret’s Hospice, our values guide everything we do. We are:
- Compassionate: Kindness and care for everyone, every day
- Collaborative: One team, working together for one goal
- Ambitious: Striving for better, now and into the future.
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.
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We offer a supportive and inclusive working environment alongside a range of benefits including:
Holiday entitlement
- 33 days holiday including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after 1 year and increasing with length of service (pro rata for part-time employees)
- Ability to buy and sell annual leave
Pension scheme
- NHS employees may be eligible to continue their NHS pension scheme*
- Non-NHS employees receive 6% employer and 5% employee contributions
Additional Benefits
- Life assurance cover - 2x salary
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 GP access, counselling, wellbeing support, and legal/financial advice
- Blue Light Card discounts
- Enhanced maternity leave*
- Excellent learning and development opportunities
- Free onsite parking at Taunton and Yeovil
- Opportunities to volunteer and support fundraising initiatives
- Eligibility criteria apply
Next steps
To apply, please click the Apply Now button to complete an application form. Applications will be reviewed as part of our shortlisting process.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce.
If you would like an informal conversation about the role before applying, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Katie Dominy at Katie.Dominy@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk.
For questions about the recruitment process or to request reasonable adjustments, please contact Recruitment@st-margarets-hospice.org.uk.
The interview process
Interviews will take place in person at our Taunton Hospice and will include:
- Competency-based interview questions
- A planning exercise
- A minute-taking exercise
These activities are designed to reflect the type of work involved in the role and help us understand your skills and experience.
Closing date for applications: Thursday 17th September 2026
Interview date: Wednesday 30th September and Tuesday 6th October 2026
If you have all the information you need, just click apply. We can’t wait to hear from you!
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