Job Description

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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall - Room 700

Worker Category: Fixed worker

Salary: \xc2\xa321,192 to \xc2\xa321,579 (pro rata for part time staff)

Working Hours: County Hall - 18.5 hours - Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

Contract Type: Fixed term until March 2025

Closing Date: 28/09/2023

Interview Date(s): 5th or 6th October 2023

About the Role

An opportunity has arisen to work as part of the Business Support Services Team in Adults & Communities as an Administrative Assistant. We have a part time position based County Hall room 700. To work flexibly as part of a team to provide an efficient, effective and comprehensive county wide administrative business support service across A&C localities, maintaining a high quality responsive customer service for both internal and external customers.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• NVQ 2 level qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent or relevant experience
• Importance of customer service
• Importance of confidentiality
• Knowledge of the work of Adults & Communities
• Working in an administrative, financial secretarial setting (i.e. experience in routine clerical tasks including word processing, filing, photocopying, faxing, message taking, data input)
• Using Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word and Excel
• Experience of maintaining computer based system and manual record systems
• Working as a team
• To have excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
• To work quickly and accurately to deadlines, meeting priorities

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 page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Enter name and job title Teresa Garbett - Team Leader

Telephone: 0116 3052444

Email:

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 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.

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About Us:

About Leicestershire County Council

Leicestershire County Council is a , , , , and organisation. In August 2021, we also signed up to the . We are strongly committed to promoting equality and opportunity, championing employee wellbeing and investing in staff training and development.

Our aim is to work with communities and partners to deliver public services that make Leicestershire the best possible place to live and work for everyone. Our employees play a key role in supporting this goal and helping us deliver the vital services we provide to the people of Leicestershire.

For further information on what it\'s like to work for us and the benefits we offer, please refer to the following:

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