Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Grade D SCP 7 £25,584 SCP 10 £26,835
Hours per week: 36 Hours
Base location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Assessment Date : To be arranged
The Role
We are looking for someone to join our legal team to assist with co-ordination of the administrative support and to undertake administrative tasks including formulating court bundles, typing documents, ensuring the court diary and other office records are maintained, liaising with courts, tribunals, clients and other providers of legal services.
This job is based in Ashton-under-Lyne, which is 10 minutes by train from central Manchester, and the Council operates a flexible working policy.
About You
You will have achieved RSA Typing Grade II, have experience and knowledge of word processing systems including Microsoft word, be able to prioritise and evaluate your own work and that of others, have the ability to work on your own initiative and be proactive, have excellent organisational skills, possess good interpersonal skills.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high-quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do, and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things is just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
This is a politically restricted post.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 4282 or aileen.johnson@tameside.gov.uk on 0161 342 4048
Reference number DPT563
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