Personal Administration Support Worker (part time)

We’re looking for an excellent administrator to provide high level admin support  to a member of our service. With strong IT, communication, and organisational skills, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our team can deliver excellent services to children, families, and schools. You will need to display professionalism, confidentiality, and adaptability in this varied role.

While your primary focus will be providing administrative support to a team member, you’ll also contribute to the overall success of our service by ensuring processes run smoothly. We pride ourselves on creating a positive and inclusive environment where every team member can thrive and make a meaningful contribution.

 

Any successful internal candidate will be offered the position as a secondment and, in line with Section 8.1 of the Secondment Policy, must consult with their manager before applying.

You will be supported to carry out the following duties, responsibilities and training…

• To be a dedicated administrative support worker for an employee.
• Providing administrative support via telephone, email, letter or in person. 
• Taking instruction from the employee to provide proofreading, dictation, and notetaking. Note-taking can be via teams, in person at times
• To support with and be adaptable to new service developments in processes, procedures and service initiatives that require administration support functions to ensure their implementation.

The benefits you will experience are…

• Generous annual leave entitlement of 25 days increasing to 28 days after 3 years’ service (pro rata for part time).
• Annual leave purchase policy.
• Opportunities for flexible and agile working, to support our employees’ work-life balance.
• An inclusive and social working environment with a variety of staff networks including sports and social clubs.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and fostering leave.
• Career development through internal and external training opportunities.
• Local government pension scheme.
• Life insurance cover.
• A great office location next to travel links and the regenerated town centre.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support employees’ health and wellbeing.
• Staff dental and health plans.
• Discounted leisure centre and gym membership.
• Supermarket discount.

Interview date

Interviews will be held Wednesday 15th January 2025.

Interviews will be held online via the Teams app.

We reserve the right to amend this to in person interviews at our offices.

We will be reviewing applications regularly and reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified. To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible.

Please note AI is prohibited during the interview process, any candidate using AI will be withdrawn from consideration.

Want to ask us a question?

For an informal discussion or to ask any questions about this role, please contact:

Lisa Thomas, Education Welfare Service Team Leader: 01344 354037 or lisa.thomas@bracknell-forest.gov.uk

 

At Bracknell Forest we champion equality, diversity and inclusion. At Bracknell Forest Council, we are always learning, ambition and inclusive. Please see our candidate pack for more details.

Bracknell Forest Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. We expect everyone employed with us to share this commitment. All successful candidates for this role will be subject to a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) check as part of our pre-employment checks process.

 

We can only accept applications from candidates currently residing in the UK.

Candidates currently residing in the UK who require sponsorship to work are encouraged to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) based on the relevant criteria. Please be aware that sponsorship availability varies and is subject to eligibility requirements and budget limitations. As a result, we cannot guarantee sponsorship for all roles and will evaluate sponsorship requests on a case-by-case basis.

No agencies please.