3 months Contract with a local authority

Job Purpose

To provide professional administration support that facilitates the delivery of frontline services and the council priorities. Ensuring the delivery of an effective and efficient service within required timescales and in line with corporate and service policies and operating guidelines. To work in partnership with services to ensure that any risks, issues, or opportunities are identified and quickly addressed. To champion continuous improvement to ensure that services are as efficient as possible to work to a quality standard of right first time every time.

Key Duties/Accountabilities

Provide effective administration support to meet the statutory and operational requirements of front-line services.
Proactively develop skills, knowledge and abilities in delivering generic and service specific support functions.
Be aware of policies, procedures and statutory legislation that impacts on your role and the services you support. Regularly update that knowledge in order to give correct service information and advice and allow job rotation as required.
Organise and prioritise own workload, renegotiating targets/deadlines as conflicting demands necessitate.

Essential Experience Required

Experience of providing excellent administration support functions ideally in a complex or regulated environment delivering high quality services.
Ability to work under pressure and respond effectively to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines.
Ability to maintain simple information, recording and filing systems (manual and computerised).

Essential Qualification Required

Additional Information

Requirements

Experience in providing administration support in a complex or regulated environment
Ability to work under pressure and respond effectively to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
General education or qualification in a related field

Admin Support Assistant