Administration Assistant

The Disabilities Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading UK charity as an Administration Assistant in Liverpool, where you'll play a vital role in supporting services for individuals with disabilities. With a focus on operational, administrative, and financial effectiveness, you'll help ensure the smooth running of the service. This full-time position offers a starting salary of £21,567 and a range of benefits, including generous annual leave and employee discounts.

Benefits

33 days annual leave

Group life assurance

Eye voucher scheme

Company pension

Long service awards

Nationwide employee discounts

Blue Light Card discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in office systems setup and maintenance.
• Experience using databases.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize workloads.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the running of the service with operational and administrative effectiveness.
• Handle cash/cheque responsibilities, ensuring accuracy for month-end reporting.
• Manage filing of necessary paperwork and assist staff communications.

Skills

Organizational skills

Numerical proficiency

Excellent IT skills

Excellent oral communication skills

Excellent written communication skills

Experience supervising staff

Tools

Microsoft Office

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Administration Assistant – Liverpool

£21,567 per annum

Monday to Friday 9am till 5pm.

Why join us?

Brainkind is a leading UK charity that works alongside people with an acquired brain injury, autism, and learning or physical disabilities to help them live as independently as possible. Our teams across the UK support people to move forward with their lives. It’s a special feeling to share their individual journeys and play a part in the progress they make. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you’ll find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

The Role:

As an Administrator at Redford Court, your main purpose is to assist in the running of the service in terms of operational, administrative, and financial effectiveness, within the policies determined by Brainkind and within budgets, which will be prepared locally and agreed centrally.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES (but not limited to):

• Collate emails received daily, prioritize according to urgency/importance, and act to ensure deadlines are met.
• Handle cash/cheque responsibilities for the service/unit/department, ensuring records and banking duties are accurate and processed timely for month-end reporting.
• Undertake purchase ledger responsibilities and related duties as required.
• Maintain systematic filing (electronic and/or manual) of necessary paperwork in a timely manner.
• Assist in dealing with telephone calls professionally, directing calls and taking messages as necessary; may include reception duties.
• Undertake other administrative duties, including deputising for others, to support the smooth running of the service/unit/department.
• Communicate effectively with staff at all levels, ensuring efficient collation and distribution of information.
• Support collection and submission of accurate data to Central Support Services within deadlines.
• Support in chasing debts alongside Credit Controllers and/or central support functions.

Skills/Experience required:

• Experience setting up and maintaining office systems
• Experience using and setting up databases
• Experience supervising staff and delegating tasks
• Excellent IT skills with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills and workload prioritization
• Numerical proficiency
• Experience working with confidentiality
• Experience in marketing
• Experience recruiting staff

Benefits include:

• Salary of £21,567 per annum
• 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Group life assurance
• Eye voucher scheme
• Company pension
• Long service and staff awards
• Nationwide employee discounts, including dining and shopping
• Blue Light Card discounts for NHS, emergency services, social care, and armed forces

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*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks.*

Brainkind is a Disability Confident Employer. We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria. We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion, offering policies and forums to support employees from all backgrounds.