Team Assistant

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic Team Assistant to join our team in Essex, who will provide back-office support with some of our key services, including our brand new Counselling Service and our enhanced grants offer.

You will be required to provide support with referrals/priority referrals into the Essex Counselling service, including entering data onto our systems and maintaining the waiting list ensuring that all referrals are dealt with in an efficient and timely manner.

Supporting with administrative functions relating to the Essex team, including the volunteers and Supervisors, you will also be required to arrange room bookings and to support the collation of the bespoke additional grants applications process, and undertake the administration process as required from start to finish.

You will also be supporting with the production of reports, KPIs, monitoring and evaluation required by the various teams.

To be successful you will require strong administrative skills, attention to detail and an ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of staff and carers.

In return you will benefit from working for a not-for-profit organisation that delivers a service which makes a real difference to peoples' lives. We offer training and development to help you grow your career, a good annual leave entitlement, flexible working options, access to our workplace pension, employee assistance programme and a Benenden Healthcare package.

If you are interested in becoming part of the team and have the skills and experience that we are looking for and are passionate about making a real difference, then please read the Job Description and Person Specification contained within our Candidate Job Pack.

Appointments are subject to Carers First receiving suitable references and an appropriate disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

We encourage and welcome applications regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation or age.

If you would like to discuss this role confidentially, please contact us and we will be happy to organise for one of the Team to contact you.