Administration Assistant

Administration Assistant
Location: Plymouth
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £8.92 per hour

Closing Date: 25th February 2021

It is essential that you have previous administration experience and an excellent understanding of Microsoft systems.

The role of administration assistant is varied and diverse. It is a progressive role which requires an organised, efficient and forward thinking individual to support the management team in all aspects of the day to day running of the service and consistently provide a professional approach to external agencies/organisations, the organisation’s employees, job applicants and the people we support.

Essential Criteria:

• At least one years experience in an administration role
• Organised
• Methodical / logical
• Consistent
• Confident / able to work under pressure
• A clear communicator
• Able to use own initiative
• An ability to use advanced functions of word-processing software to produce well-presented, clear, grammatically correct documents
• Able to produce high quality documents using a range of software tools
• Extremely confident in the use of MS Excel i.e. formulas, conditional formatting, graphs
• Experience with payroll software
• Reliable
• Flexible / adaptable
• Able to work in a team or alone
• Imaginative / creative
• Good problem solving skills
• Able to prioritise, plan and organise workload
• Understanding of health and safety in the workplace
• A commitment to the ethos, values, aims and objectives of New Direction Support
• Enthusiastic, with a commitment to providing a high quality service
• An ability to deal appropriately with sensitive or difficult situations with clients/customers, employees and members of the public
• Numeracy and literacy competence

Desirable Criteria:

• An understanding of and commitment to Diversity & Equality as it applies to a supportive service and in the workplace
• A general understanding of the health and social care sector