Job Details:
Job Reference: HCC619145
Salary Range: £24,405 - £25,430, per annum
Work Location: Dame Mary Fagan House, Basingstoke (Hybrid Working)
Hours per week: 37 (part-time hours will be considered)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 17 November 2024
Interview date: 22 November 2024
The Role:
Joining our friendly and supportive Business Support Team as a Senior Administrative Assistant, you’ll be the first point of contact for visitors to the Service’s local office. Working collaboratively with social workers and the community teams, you’ll focus on providing excellent administrative support to the wider Mental Health team to support the delivery of essential services to vulnerable adults within our community.
Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.
In this a varied and challenging yet rewarding role, you’ll use your excellent communication skills to respond effectively to routine enquiries both verbally and in writing. Our Senior Administrative Assistants need a strong customer focus, to build relationships and establish internal networks of contacts. Your prioritisation and organisational skills will support you in approaching your varied tasks flexibly and confidently, ensuring you meet deadlines without compromising accuracy.
Following training and using your established IT skills, including Word and Excel, you'll use a range of systems and digital tools to manage clients’ records and ensure information is kept up to date. Your previous administrative experience, ideally within a customer focused environment will enable you to provide the highest standard of customer care, whilst supporting your colleagues to deliver a robust and resilient service.
In this hybrid working role, you’ll be home based for part of the week and based in the office for a minimum of one day per week. During your induction and training you will be expected to be in the office daily.
We highly value the administrative skills our Senior Administrative Assistants bring to their roles and in return we offer a supportive working environment and a commitment to your personal development. This is offered alongside an extensive Benefits package.
Other job titles you may be searching for: Admin Assistant, Admin Support, Support Specialist, Administrative Coordinator, Secretary, Admin Specialist, Business Support, Office Assistant, Personal Assistant, Office Administration, Administrator.
Travel Requirements:
You may be required to visit other locations within Hampshire, and therefore need to have the ability to travel, as necessary.
Values Based Recruitment:
We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.
Additional Information:
Find out more about Working with us in Adults’ Health and Care, including our benefits and the recruitment process
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
For general enquiries, please contact care.careers@hants.gov.uk
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Lucy Stannard, Business Support Manager on lucy.stannard@hants.gov.uk
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.