Would you enjoy working in a beautiful location in the Forest of Dean, supporting a busy administration office? To assist the Taurus Crafts team in operational administration. This is an important role within a busy small office, and will involve dealing with members of the public, suppliers, trainees, volunteers, staff and managers. You need to have a flexible attitude to work performed, and an approachable but professional manner when performing duties. Location & Travel Community-based This role will be based at Taurus Crafts in Lydney. About Taurus Crafts Taurus Crafts is a vibrant visitor centre where you can see a wide range of arts and crafts. As well as being the home to a fantastic range of independent businesses, we run three shops with a mixed ability team. We are open daily providing opportunities for work placements & supported employment for people with mental health and learning disabilities as well as selling a range of unique goods selected for their ethics and products made in our communities. Taurus Crafts provides work and training opportunities for the people we support, developing new skills, building confidence and enabling people to participate actively in the community. We’re a centre of excellence recognised for working with people whose needs are not well met through mainstream education and employment programmes. The people we support are at the heart of all we do, and Taurus Crafts is a place where people’s skills can shine. At Taurus Crafts, people we support are involved in all aspects of our award-winning centre. Trainees serve in our shops and develop their hospitality skills in every area of our café. Our beautiful, artisan gifts and imaginatively designed cards are made by people with learning disabilities as is the crockery we use in our café, which is hand-thrown in our pottery at our nearby Grange Community. We have many functions and events throughout the year, including our well attended Christmas Markets. Duties & Responsibilities Main responsibilities: Preparation of monthly time sheets and collating payroll paperwork for submission to the Trust’s Central Payroll, such as timesheets, self – certification and holiday forms by scheduled date, recording all payroll data onto Excel spreadsheets. Acting cover for Cash Clerk during periods of annual leave or sickness. Banking of takings, dealing with petty cash requests, managing internal process, recording purchases and tallying cash tin. Administering purchase orders, invoices and receipts for site wide suppliers onto computerised central system. Office tasks such as scanning, printing ad hoc documents, sorting post and answering admin queries. Responsible for ensuring adequate office consumables are available and within budget limit. Ordering other supplies for departments using approved providers, following purchase order procedure. Dealing with some job enquiries and application paperwork. Answering the phone and transferring calls to departments. Dealing with ad hoc enquiries and tasks for staff team across the site. Main point of contact for any visitors to the office; deliveries, staff, public, volunteers and tenants, providing assistance where required and excellent customer service. Dealing with key allocations. Managing the Duty Manager Rota. Taking minutes in meetings as required. Supporting the Severnside Skills team with general admin tasks such as; collation of trainee evidence and scheduling review meetings with family members and support providers. Act as Community Booking Lead for training. Oversight of mandatory staff training matrix for employees, communicating when courses are due for update and ensuring information is accurate. Inputting Health and Safety data from each department to local and central spreadsheets. Completing some routine health and safety checks e.g. Fire Alarm test. Raising job tickets with the Property and Land Services Team in accordance with Trust procedures. Person Specification Knowledge & Experience Essential You’ll have a good level of numeracy and literacy with a high attention to detail. Previous experience working in an admin / office-based role. Desirable Good knowledge of the Microsoft office suite and preferably experience of differing Electronic Point of Sale systems or an aptitude for learning quickly. Personal Attributes You’ll have a positive attitude and a desire to meet deadlines. You love speaking with people: you’ll meet with visitors at Taurus Crafts, answer telephone enquiries and be part of the team supporting Severnside Skills trainees and supported volunteers who work across the site. You’ll possess a set of personal values and ethics that are in line with our values and ethos. You’ll enjoy being part of a team. You have a passion for enabling others to live a fulfilling and interesting life. You may even have worked or supported adults with learning disabilities. You’ll have a fun but mature attitude. Willing to learn new skills. Education Good level of standard education. GCSE Maths and English at Grade 4 (C) or above. Camphill Village Trust is an equal opportunity employer. Camphill Village Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all adults who use our services and as such expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to complete the relevant pre-employment checks including a DBS check. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.