At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide essential admin support and help teams achieve their goals.
- Company: Join a supportive council team in Midsomer Norton.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, flexible hours, and potential for contract extension.
- Other info: Perfect for students seeking part-time work with career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Gain valuable experience while making a difference in your community.
- Qualifications: GCSEs or relevant experience; basic ICT skills required.
The predicted salary is between 13.47 - 13.47 £ per hour.
Location: Midsomer Norton, Radstock, UK
Contract Length: 3 Months (Possibility of extension)
Payrate: £13.47 per hr. via PAYE/ £16.99 per hr. via Umbrella
Working Arrangement: Office based position, Tuesday to Friday (28hrs per week), 8am to 4pm
Role Purpose
To provide efficient and effective clerical and administrative support to managers, individuals and teams, to enable them to maximise their delivery and assist clients in achieving their purpose and objectives. The role will undertake a range of basic administrative tasks as required and requested, with support from senior colleagues available.
Accountabilities
- Provide routine business support as requested and required, such as printing and photocopying, and processing incoming/outgoing mail/correspondence to support the team.
- Act as a point of contact for members of the public, work with other departments and external partner organisations to resolve customer queries and deliver a successful customer focused service.
- Collate information and undertake defined word processing and other ICT-related tasks such as maintaining records or databases, to inform monitoring and decision making, and support service delivery.
- Undertake meeting support including diary management, room bookings and minute taking, to ensure defined schedules are achieved and records maintained.
- Where required and instructed, liaise with external suppliers to place orders, or obtain quotes, check invoices or purchase orders against defined requirements.
Knowledge / Skills / Experience required
- GCSE level qualification, or equivalent, or relevant experience.
- Some knowledge of the area of the Council supported.
- Basic knowledge of standard ICT packages, such as Word and Excel.
- Knowledge of administrative procedures and processes.
- Experience of providing business/administrative support services.
- Ability to communicate with a range of stakeholders in a polite and efficient manner.
- Ability to reprioritise tasks according to need and urgency.
Dimensions of role
This role does not have any supervisory or management requirements. This role does not manage any direct budgets. Planning will typically be over the period of a day, mainly responding to the requests of others.
Working Conditions
Aspects of the role that have a material impact on the nature of the job, once all reasonable actions have been taken to moderate or eliminate them:
- The role does not have any physical demands that have a material impact on the nature of the role.
- The role does not have any environmental demands that have a material impact on the nature of the role.
- The role needs to maintain vigilance / alertness / concentration in the face of a moderate degree of repetition and monotony, to ensure accuracy or safety.
- The role has occasional indirect exposure to traumatic/distressing situations or circumstances, and occasional exposure to moderately challenging or confrontational behaviour.
If shortlisted, a recruiter from the team will contact you within 24-48 hours for an initial discussion.
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