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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: The Trees Deveron Way Hinckley Leicestershire LE10 0XD
Worker Category: Fixed location worker
Salary:Gradeper annum (pro rata for part-time) Pay Award Pending
Working Hours:25 hours per week Mon to Fri to be arranged
Contract Type:Permanent
Closing Date:13th August 2025
Interview Date(s): TBA
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
The role does not meet the minimum salary requirements for sponsorship therefore you must already have the right to work in the UK in order to apply.
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.
Administration assistant 25 hours per week working flexibly to meet the needs of the service between Monday and Friday over 5 days.
The admin assistantis required to work as part of a team in providing all administrative technical and secretarial work within the locality and supporting services on-site.
This post includes general office duties including customer service responding to callers and telephone queries handling 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 enquiries 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 the prescribed budget for approval by the 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 the support of the line manager they manage their own workload against agreed objectives.
We also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances while 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 that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on theOur Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Name: Sharon Duffus
Telephone:
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 theHow to Applysection on our career site.
If you have any technical issues when applying for this post please contact our Employee Service Centre at applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
