What's involved with this role: Temporary Professional Officer/Admin – Social Care Job Ref: Sheffield 0009 6D24 / 1 Pay Rate: Up to £18.53 per hour PAYE depending on experience Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 4 months City: Sheffield Hybrid working A professional officer is required to assist an Adult Social Care team in a Local Authority Legal Department. Responsibilities would include assisting lawyers with the preparation and conduct of litigation, principally relating to adult care, and with the provision of advice to client departments. Activities would include drafting applications, requesting and drafting witness statements, conduct of straight forward cases under supervision, miscellaneous administrative assistance including monitoring of inboxes and file opening and management. Qualifications: NVQ Level 2 in a related area or relevant experience. Skills & Experience: Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation. Experience of a Local Authority Legal Department or the administration of adult social care responsibilities would be helpful, experience of both would be ideal. Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite). 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. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. S Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please