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Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall room 700, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Salary: £24,408 to £24,795 per annum (pro rata for part time)

Working Hours: 18.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 30th April 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

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 1 x part time position based at our County Hall office. 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:

1. Have NVQ 2 level qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent or relevant experience
2. Know the importance of customer service
3. Know the importance of confidentiality
4. Have worked in an administrative, financial secretarial setting (experience in routine clerical tasks including word processing, filing, photocopying, faxing, message taking, data input)
5. Be competent in using Microsoft Office including Outlook, Word and Excel
6. Have experience of maintaining computer based system and manual record systems
7. Have excellent communication skills (written & verbal)

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 Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact: