Administration Officer

Role Responsibility

Full time position covering a Secondment until 31st December 2024.

If you are an experienced administrator, then we would love to hear from you. We are offering an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, dynamic, and supportive team.

An opportunity has arisen to recruit an Administration Officer for the Countywide Business Support Team, providing support to the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Team.

The DoLS team provide a Countywide service for people who are deprived of their liberty in a care home or hospital. The post-holder will assist in the smooth running of the service, but also work flexibly to support other areas of Countywide Services when needed.

This is an excellent opportunity to help shape future business support, making this an exciting time to join our service. We are looking for an administrator that is computer literate, with the ability to use a range of IT systems and packages to ensure a high level of accuracy with data collation and inputting. Extensive use of Excel would be advantageous.

You will be able to work well within a busy team, prioritise your work, demonstrate flexibility, and bring new ideas while thinking “outside the box”. Minute taking experience for meetings would be advantageous, however training will be provided. Possessing excellent communication skills is essential as you will be liaising with staff and Managers at all levels. This is a challenging, varied, and exciting role that requires you to multitask whilst working under pressure.

We are looking for someone who possesses the same cultural attributes and values as the organisation, alongside good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise workloads and work to deadlines.

The contractual base is Invicta House, Maidstone, plus hybrid working.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.