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The starting salary for this role is £24,977 per annum based on a 36 hour working week.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Administration Assistant to join our fantastic Adult Social Care team at Waverley Locality Team in Godalming.

What we can offer you:

• 26 days annual leave with the option to also buy additional leave if required (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Agile working opportunities – your work/life balance is important to us!
• Training and Development – superb opportunities for development
• A supportive, 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Car lease scheme and many more discounted life-style benefits, please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff for more information

About the role

As an Administration Assistant, you will provide comprehensive administrative support to a front-line operational team. You will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, as you will be expected to deal with complex telephone enquiries and a wide range of correspondence and scanning duties. Additionally, you will be asked to take notes, and minutes of meetings and be entering data on both the mainframe database and Excel spreadsheets.

In your application we would love to hear about your:

• Excellent administrative and organisation skills
• Passion for customer service and your desire to support both the team and wider Surrey residents
• Sound knowledge of IT packages such as Excel, Word, and databases and your quick and accurate data entry skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Note-taking and minute-taking skills

At Surrey, our values and behaviours are just as important as our skills and abilities. They shape who we are as an organisation. Find out more about the values we follow.

For more information, please find the full job description below and refer to this before submitting your application. We also invite you to read our Life at Surrey handbook to see insights of the culture at Surrey and how as a valued employee, you can help shape our Council.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on 17th September 2023.

Interview dates to be confirmed.

Contact Details

For an informal discussion please contact Pamela Dilworth on 020 8541 8743 or by e-mail at [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.

Benefits

From flexible working to job sharing we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit MyBenefits for Surrey County Council staff.

Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applications where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

Our application form and onboarding process will provide an opportunity to request any reasonable adjustments for the interview and/or the role.

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups. We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.