- Pay Rate:
£10.80 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- NUNEATON, Warwickshire,
CV10 7QR
Temporary Administrator – Property Services
Reference no: Nuneaton 5225528
Pay rate: £10.80 per hour PAYE
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months
A Property Services Administrator is required to deliver an excellent day to day core housing repairs service. This includes technical support, receipt and dealing with repair enquiries, requests, complaints, comments, work scheduling and making appointments.
To work with the Senior Property Services Support Officer and the wider Housing and Communities team within the Council to ensure excellence in service to customers, both internal and external is achieved.
Key responsibilities:
- Day to day delivery of core housing repairs service. This includes technical support providing full administrative duties to run operationally the voids, planned maintenance and reactive repairs sections.
- Receipt and deal with repair enquiries, requests, complaints, comments, work scheduling and make appointments.
- Be proactive in identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and maintaining existing improvements.
- Cooperate and communicate with other Property Services sections to ensure that they are aware of high areas of demand on the repairs service being delivered.
- Communicate effectively with the customer, team members and other stakeholders in a professional manner.
- Carry out basic diagnostic questioning over the phone to establish what repairs is/are required.
- Ensure adherence to health and safety policies for all employees incorporated in the Council’s Manual of Policy, Procedures and Guidance and any relevant Health and Safety legislation.
- Assist in ensuring work is carried out in accordance with Health and Safety legislation in particular working with asbestos and in adherence to NBBC asbestos management and emergency procedures.
- Ensure that complaints and comments from tenants/members of the public/user groups are appropriately dealt with in accordance with the Council’s policies and procedures.
- Deal with and/or assist the Senior Property Services Support Officer in dealing with enquires from M.Ps, Elected Members, other departments and agencies in relation to the activities of Repairs and Maintenance.
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
Qualifications:
- Qualifications in English Language and Mathematics at NVQ Level 2 or equivalent.
Experience:
- Recent experience of dealing directly with customers, particularly via the telephone.
- Experience in the use of computers systems, including word processing and spreadsheets and data entry.
- Recent experience in undertaking clerical/administrative duties.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Ability to follow prescribed procedures.
- Good planning and personal organisational skills.
- Able to work to deadlines and prioritise own workload.
- Flexible in approach and able to adopt a positive attitude to changing situations.
- Able to demonstrate resilience and sensitivity in dealing with customers who could be emotional.
- Able to portray a confident and professional image.
- Have an awareness of fairness and diversity and Health & Safety in the work place.
- Able to make decisions within guidelines and challenge where appropriate and relevant..
- Strong IT skills using Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
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- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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