Casework Assistant Apprentice - London

ENGINEERINGUK; London; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

Historic England is seeking a Casework Assistant Apprentice in London. This role offers a Level 4 apprenticeship, focusing on planning casework and heritage management. You'll learn from experienced colleagues while contributing to vital heritage initiatives.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate interest in history and heritage.
• Experience using Microsoft Office, especially Word and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and administer planning casework.
• Act as a first point of contact for enquiries.
• Assist in processing grants casework.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication

Teamwork

Curiosity

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Summary

Historic England are excited to be seeking a Casework Assistant Apprentice. This is rare exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to achieve a Level 4 Historic Environment Advice Assistant Apprenticeship, working within our London and South East Regional team, with an office base in London.

With a Historic Environment Advice Assistant apprenticeship, you will learn "on the job" in the role of a Casework Assistant and undertake a formal training programme to enhance your knowledge and understanding of how we manage change to the historic environment and how it connects communities.

This role includes co-ordinating and administering planning casework, including researching and assessing a range of historic places including buildings, landscapes and archaeological remains; assessment and co-ordination of grant applications, and acting as a first point of contact for enquiries from the public, owners and other stakeholders.

As a Casework Assistant you will be based in the Business Team and primarily be developing your role in this team; however, over the course of your apprenticeship you will spend dedicated times with all the teams in Region: learning about Development Advice, Partnerships, Heritage at Risk and Business Management. You would also have the opportunity to be involved in major initiatives in places where great heritage work is needed.

The Level 4 Historic Environment Advice Assistant Apprenticeship is offered as a 27 month Fixed Term Contract, and will be based in the London office.

What you will be doing

The main duties and areas of responsibility for your role are listed below. This is an outline description; it is not a complete list and may change from time to time depending on the needs of the organisation. As this is a training position, you will not be expected to be able to do all of these things straight away. You will learn from experienced colleagues who provide advice to all kinds of people on the Historic Environment and gradually take on more responsibility yourself.)

1. Working with the Development Advice teams to log, assess and process planning casework, including assisting Inspectors of Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments in providing advice to local authorities and public

2. Working with the Partnerships and Business Team to co-ordinate, assess and process grants casework

3. Acting as the initial point of contact for customer enquiries; ensuring high standards of customer service at all times

In this role you will learn from experienced colleagues who provide advice to all kinds of people on the Historic Environment. At work (80% of your time) the experience you will gain on the job will include but not be limited to:

• Understanding the variety and importance of our historic environment including archaeology, historic buildings, conservation areas, landscapes and other unique heritage sites.
  
• Undertaking some research on individual sites and wider areas using a range of information sources such as aerial photographs, historic maps, plans, and reports.
  
• Interpreting application documents including photographs, drawings, plans and reports.
  
• Creating and presenting PowerPoint presentations
  
• Assessing financial information relating to grant applications
  
• Recording and assessing planning and listed building consent casework, and grant applications.
  
• Attending meetings with external partners and members of the public to discuss heritage management and promote the benefits of the historic environment. This might include on-site discussions about specific planning, strategic meetings with local authorities, and heritage training/events.
  

A key element of your apprenticeship will be the development of a Portfolio of Evidence of your on-the-job work and training. As you progress you will add pieces of evidence to your portfolio that you can use to demonstrate the relevant knowledge, skills and behaviours required for this apprenticeship. Pieces of evidence are things like work products, case studies, reports on professional activities, meetings or project work.

What will you learn

• How the heritage sector works: The people, organisations, policy and legislation that make up this fascinating area of work.
  
• The fundamentals of archaeological, landscape and architectural history.
  
• The skills required to identify different types of heritage sites and objects and to assess their condition.
  
• The knowledge and skills required to analyse, date, monitor and conserve a range of historic places.
  
• The value of heritage to the local economy, to the communities living nearby and to people who visit the heritage sites we help to protect, enhance and reveal.
  
• The professional language and terminology that will support your communication in the workplace, in particular when making recommendations concerning the historic environment.
  

What we are looking for

• You will demonstrate an interest in history, heritage and the historic environment, with an ambition to start a career in content and marketing
  
• You are well-organised with excellent attention to detail.
  
• A great team worker with the ability to get along easily with others.
  
• Experience of using Microsoft Office in particular Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
  
• You can demonstrate good communication skills, both written and verbal.
  
• You are curious and have a desire to continuously learn.
  

Please ensure you highlight your experience, skills and capabilities based on the above criteria in your online application.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at [e-mail] if you have any recruitment queries.

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

To ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process for everyone the use of AI or automated tools is not permitted.

Provisional interview dates: June 2025

Please follow the link for a full copy of the Job Description -

https://cms.historicengland.org.uk/media/opzcfmza/casework-assistant-apprentice-jd-2025-london.odt

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