Business Administration Apprentice

  • Employer: St Helens Borough Council
  • Reference: SESEA28
  • Published: Thu 31/10/2024, 20:08 PM
  • Closing on: Sun 03/11/2024, 23:59 PM
  • Working Pattern: Full Time
  • Hours: 37 hours per week
  • Salary: From: (£6.40 / 236.80 per week) for the first 12 months and the relevant age-related wage in accordance with the National Minimum Wage for the remaining months (up to 9 months)
  • DBS Check: No
  • Workplace: Hybrid
  • Location: St Helens Metropolitan Council, Merseyside

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Business Administration Apprentice

We Are St Helens Borough Council

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

St Helens Children’s Social Care are seeking to appoint a motivated, extremely committed, highly professional, enthusiastic and extremely effective Business Administration Apprenticeship to join our hard working, dynamic and enthusiastic Team. The role is temporary for 21 Months.

The Business Support Team is at the centre of children’s social care, supporting the Family Time Team, working closely with Social Workers, Foster Carers and Families.

We are looking for applicants with:

Good Communication and organisational skills
Have good interpersonal skills.
Confident in using the telephone.
Good IT skills with an understanding of Microsoft

You will be required to perform a wide range of administrative tasks, for which you will be given full training and support. Working alongside experienced staff, both in the office and remotely, you will build up knowledge and develop many transferable skills.

The successful candidate won’t be alone in their goal to have a positive impact on the lives of the children we look after; they will have all the support they need from the whole team.

Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Thank you for your interest in working for us.
If you are experiencing issues with applying online, you can contact a member of the team at Recruitment@sthelens.gov.uk and a form will be sent to you to complete.

St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. This means that the Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within the interview/selection process.

Equality & Diversity
St Helens Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life.
All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.

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