Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: The Trees, Deveron Way, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 0XD
Worker Category: Fixed location worker
Salary: Grade 5 £24,408 - £24,795 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Working Hours: 16.5 hours per week – Mon to Fri – to be arranged
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 14/11/2024
Interview Date(s): TBC
The Trees Short Breaks, is seeking to appoint, a flexible, and organised administration assistant.
We are looking for an individual who is pro-active and organised, with the ability to prioritise their workload with minimal supervision. With a friendly and compassionate approach, you will be an enthusiastic and compassionate person, who is able to empathise with others whilst acting professionally.
About the Role
Administration assistant – 16.5 hours per week – working flexibly to meet the needs of the service – between Monday and Friday.
The admin assistant is required to work as part of a team in the provision of all administrative, technical, and secretarial work within the locality supporting services on site.
This post includes general office duties, including customer service, responding to callers and telephone queries, dealing with emails, filing and data collection.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Have skills to undertake general office duties e.g. post, fax and file management (paper and electronic) photocopying maintenance of office equipment, research, collating and disseminating identified materials.
- Be able to produce typed documents including reports and correspondence (electronic or paper formats) from hand-written/audio information, making layout presentation decisions.
- Receive visitors, respond to and screen telephone calls emails and other enquires in order to provide a high level of customer care.
- Support managers in the management of sometimes challenging and potentially confrontational situations with continued professionalism.
- Maintain office stationery stock by re-ordering against pre-determined levels and within prescribed budget for approval by supervisor. Receive deliveries check off.
- Assist managers in ensuring that their teams maintain effective information and data management systems including paper and electronic documents/indexing etc.
- With support of line manager manage their own workload against agreed objectives.
We also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Phil Hutchinson Care Mangers Telephone:
Email: phil.hutchinson@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
By applying for this post, you agree to our Terms and Conditions.
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to
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