Administrator

Join our team as an Administrator and play a vital role in the Catering team's success!

We're seeking detail-orientated and proactive individuals who can handle multiple tasks with ease.

If you have excellent organisational skills, strong communication abilities and can deliver quality customer service - we want to hear from you!

Salary: £23,500 to £23,893 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: Full-time (37 hours per week)

Location: County Hall, Chichester, PO19 1RG. You will be required on occasion to work flexibly across WSCC office hubs, located in Chichester and Crawley dependent on service needs. Final arrangements to be confirmed with the successful candidate.

Interview Date: week commencing 05 February 2024

The Opportunity

We have a new and exciting opportunity to join our Catering Team.

The team provides a catering service for primary schools and Meals on Wheels programme delivering over 30,000 meals a day through large scale contracted services. County Catering also support secondary schools, nurseries, social care, and independent schools through service level agreements.

Reporting to a Team Leader, the role requires you to provide a customer-focused and efficient administrative service. The responsibilities include executing various administrative tasks to a high standard within agreed deadlines. These tasks encompass data entry, directing and assisting visitors at council receptions, organizing meetings, and circulating agendas, compiling information, maintaining spreadsheets, procuring office supplies, managing applications, communicating effectively with external customers via email and telephone and updating council IT systems.

You will be a team player who can foster and nurture positive working relationships. Alongside strong communication skills, you will be organised and can prioritise tasks to meet deadlines.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Rewards and Benefits

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. Along with a generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave).

We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.

Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including the following:

• An excellent local government pension scheme
• Training and development opportunities, including coaching and apprenticeships
• A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CPP00841.

Does this sound like the opportunity for you? Click apply below, upload your CV, and complete the application form, explaining how you meet the key skills in the attached job description. Please ensure all that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV.

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

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