Durham 1000383410622478 Temporary Clerical (Admin) Assistant - 031001 - Spatial Policy
The Clerical Assistant will form part of the Spatial Policy team and will support the Spatial Policy officers in ensuring the effective delivery of the statutory processes. The post holder will help to ensure that the service effectively engages with its customers, including the general public, communities, applicants, stakeholders and the development industry.
The post holder will assist the work of officers by ensuring that all necessary basic administrative procedures required to support the statutory disciplines are carried out in an accurate and timely manner. This will include the undertaking of a range of administrative tasks designed to ensure the implementation of an effective and responsive support service.
Duties include:
- To support officers by the carrying out of general document management, including filing, photocopying and faxing of documents.
- To engage with customers at reception on the telephone and by email to obtain information requirements and to provide basic information or refer to appropriate colleagues.
- To maintain documentation and information records as required by statutory regulations relating to Spatial Policy functions in an orderly manner.
- To undertake scanning duties to facilitate electronic storage of documentation.
- To undertake data inputting task onto IT systems.
Pay Rate: £8.74 per hour PAYE
This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.
N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Giving yourself the best chance of success:
- Your CV needs to be current with your latest/present role, noting that we won’t be able to submit it with any unexplained gaps in employment. It will save time and thus improve your chances of success if we can put your CV forward immediately and without having to ask you for a revised version.
- Your CV must cover the “Essential Requirements” (see below) of the role, ideally by way of bullet points that directly address the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please include any DBS details and other qualifications called for.
- Your CV should clearly state that you are available to start work either immediately, or at short notice. In general, our clients are unable to work with notice periods of more than 1 week from the point at which a role is offered, 2 weeks at the very most.
- We cannot put forward covering letters, so please ensure that your CV in isolation contains all relevant information being called for.
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“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Minimum of 12 months recent office administration experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Qualifications:
- Minimum 4 GCSEs or equivalent at grades A to C, including English Language.
- Knowledge & Experience:
- Experience of working in a support capacity in a regulatory service.
- Experience of dealing with members of the public in person and over the telephone.
- Skills:
- Interpersonal skills, including the ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with a wide range of people from different backgrounds.
- Familiarity with and ability to use relevant ICT infrastructure.
- Ability to demonstrate a ‘can do’ and pragmatic approach to solving general service delivery issues.
- Enthusiasm and self-motivation.
- Ability to concentrate for long periods of time whilst undertaking single task.
- Willingness/ability to work on own initiative and/or as part of a team, maintaining high levels of integrity and discretion.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience.
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
- Post GCSE qualification.
- Experience of working with and developing bespoke IT systems and software packages designed to support service delivery.
- Understanding of customer orientated approach to service delivery.
- Perservering and problem-solving approach.
- Advisory, negotiating and persuasive skills.
Client Category: Local Authority
Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Resources/Admin & Clerical
Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 1-2 months.
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
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- If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via jobs@tclrec.com but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:
Job Ref: Durham 1000383410622478
Temporary Clerical (Admin) Assistant - 031001 - Spatial Policy
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