- Pay Rate:
£11.18 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
- DARLINGTON, County Durham,
DL1 5QT
Temporary Business Support Officer / Admin – Public Health
Reference no: Darlington 6370914582296
Pay rate: £11.18 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: DARLINGTON, County Durham
A Business Support Officer is required to provide an efficient and comprehensive business support service. To carry out a range of administrative duties for the team with limited supervision, which may involve written, telephone or face to face contact with the public or internal colleagues and the application of organisational procedures and systems.
Key responsibilities:
- Undertake a range of business support tasks such as managing own emails, copying, scanning, faxing, archiving, post, answering the telephone and taking messages.
- Inputting and updating records both manually and electronically on multiple systems, including extracting basic information within set parameters. Carry out basic audit and quality control of data input.
- Copy typing from notes, including completing standardised templates.
- Deal with enquiries by telephone and face to face and ensure that they are dealt with effectively and efficiently, e.g. answering routine queries, signposting and taking messages where appropriate. Provide telephone cover and assistance for other teams as required.
- Input, complete and update both manual and electronic standard format data, checking the correct information is provided and chasing missing data.
- Produce standard reports and presentations.
- Provide basic facilities management – setting up rooms for meetings ensuring the required equipment and resources are available and assisting attendees.
- Undertake the co-ordination of public information and literature, ensuring stock levels are maintained and in date.
- Carry out routine invoicing, creating purchase orders (including orders for non-routine items), handling of petty cash and taking payments.
- Population and creation of basic of spreadsheets, including the creation and use of basic formula.
- Take notes at meetings may be required.
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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.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Experience:
- Previous clerical experience and knowledge of clerical systems and procedures.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Experience of dealing with enquiries from a range of people.
- Reception/telephone experience desirable.
Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to apply accurate literacy and numeracy skills to include spelling, grammar, punctuation, percentages and decimals.
- Ability to organise own work with minimum supervision.
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team.
- Ability to work to a high degree of accuracy with attention to detail.
- Ability to communicate both orally and in writing to a range of audiences.
- Able to deal confidently with members of the public, colleagues, members and external organisations.
- Flexibility, willingness and motivation to expand knowledge and experience.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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