Children's Social Care, Wokingham · 2 weeks ago
Personal Assistant
Home, KS
Full-time
Hybrid
New Grad, Entry Level
£29K/yr - £31K/yrWokingham Borough Council is seeking a Personal Assistant to provide essential support to the Council’s Leadership Team. The role involves managing diaries, organizing meetings, maintaining records, and creating documents, while also offering project support.
Individual & Family Services
Responsibilities
To work with some autonomy, to effectively deliver administrative support that meets the needs of the manager, service or project, seeking advice when required to effectively delegate or escalate enquiries
Diary management and arranging meetings. Attend meetings as required to take and produce clear, concise minutes, ensure prompt circulation of these and manage the actions arising
Support the operational and functional management of the service including the distribution of resources to meet customer and organisational needs, while supporting corporate initiatives
Preparation of letters, reports, spreadsheets and presentations with a high degree of confidentiality and accuracy
Take ownership of calls/enquiries and ensure that outstanding tasks are followed up and dealt with to the satisfaction of both the customer and the Council
Qualification
Required
Enthusiastic
Discreet
Flexible
Resilient
Ability to prioritise work effectively
Excellent IT skills
Excellent organisational skills
Ability to meet tight deadlines
Attention to detail
Excellent communicator
‘Can do' attitude
Preferred
Knowledge of Microsoft Teams
Benefits
A generous annual leave entitlement of 27 days (rising to 32 days after 5 years continued local government service), plus Bank Holidays
Enrolment to an excellent local government pension scheme
An employee assistance programme including 24/7 wellbeing helpline
A range of local & lifestyle discounts
Use of a free onsite gym (located at Shute End office)
Salary sacrifice car & cycle to work schemes
And much more!
Company
Children's Social Care, Wokingham
When Wokingham Children’s services become involved in the life of a child we want to ensure that our social workers have the support, time and resources to provide the quality of service that they themselves would wish to receive.
Wokingham, England, GB
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase