The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a Council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do.
If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today. We are an organisation that is passionate about people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. We demonstrate this through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative.
The Role:
The Business Support Team delivers a wide range of administration and financial support to various teams within the Older People and Physical Disabilities Service.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, flexible, self-motivated person with proven administrative experience to join our team of Business Support Officers.
Duties include answering telephone and email enquiries, database recording, organising and minuting meetings, room bookings, maintaining spreadsheets, archiving of documents, financial tasks and providing administrative support to teams of Social Workers and Occupational Therapists.
About You:
The successful applicant must have
- The ability to communicate effectively in person, by telephone and in writing and to manage an evolving workload using your time-management skills.
- Excellent IT skills and a good working knowledge of Microsoft packages.
- Ability to work with tight timeframes within a pressurised environment. To work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.
- Experience in business administration support and client data bases such as Mosaic, Framework-i and Carefirst.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and liaise with a wide range of employees within the directorate, across the council, and external agencies
Benefits and more information:
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle scheme and generous annual leave
- https://www.jobsatsouthwark.co.uk/why-us/
- https://jobs.theguardian.com/minisites/southwark-council/life-at-southwark-benefits-and- more/
Recruitment timetable
Advert Closing Date: 11.59pm on the 11/02/2022
Interview Date: 24/02/2022 and 25/02/2022
Occupational Assessment: W/C 21/02/2022
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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