Administration Assistant

An opportunity has arisen for a fixed term (until March 2025) role as an Administrative Assistant within the North locality Children's Services Team based in Berwick. The role is part time, 22 hours per week.
The North locality team is a busy admin team and your role within it will be to ensure that the day-to-day essential administrative tasks are carried out. The main tasks will include but are not limited to:
To assist in the co-ordination and organisation of reviews, diary appointments, etc for the social work staff.
1. Attend meetings, taking accurate minutes and ensuring distribution as requested.
2. Provide office administration tasks such as typing, petty cash, photocopying, scanning and uploading on to electronic client records.
3. Maintain information systems such as booking systems, client records ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, ease of use and rapid access
4. Ensure care and reconciliation of petty cash and other amounts of cash or cheques.
5. Receive telephone calls, deal with visitors, take messages and answer enquiries, in compliance with the service's customer care standards.
6. Deal with incoming and outgoing post in accordance with established procedures
7. Procurement - raising and receipting of requisitions and processing invoices for payment dealing with any queries as necessary.

Northumberland is world-renowned as a visitor destination and an ideal location to strike a perfect work/life balance. There is no better way of enjoying the picturesque scenery and stunning coastline than on an everyday basis!

Why choose us?
We have some outstanding benefits to offer you, including:

• 26 days annual leave plus public/bank holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years of service (pro rata for part-time employees)


• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme


• Flexi scheme (if applicable) - up to 2 days flexible leave available per month (pro rata for part-time employees)


• Local government discount schemes available to all employees with offers at local businesses along with various national brands


• Commitment to work/life balance offering flexibility through various schemes including job sharing, flexible working, term-time only, and compressed hours


• A range of salary sacrifice schemes are available


• Staff networks - run by staff, for staff, providing opportunities for peer networking, mutual support, staff development e.g. Apprenticeship, Armed Forces, ASD, Enable (disability), LGBT+, Menopause, Mental Wellbeing, Racial Equality