Revenues Apprentice

**Business Rates**:
**Location**:

- Town Hall**Salary**:

- £21,029 per annum- Fixed Term**Post Type**:

- Full Time**Contract Type**:

- Fixed Term - 24 Months**Closing Date**:

- 23.59 hours BST on Sunday 09 July 2023**Reference**:

- CURV03005-1 Lancaster City Council & Preston City Council operate as a shared service for the provision of revenues and benefit functions, and as part of this provision we administer and collect Business Rates on behalf of the two Councils.

We are looking to recruit to a Revenues Apprentice, within Business Rates Team, based at the Town Hall in Preston. This is a high performing team, whose responsibility for the billing and collection of Business rates promptly and efficiently is crucial to the council..

Duties include:

- Dealing with Business Rates customers, by phone, correspondence and sometimes in person to establish their needs and take appropriate steps to meet those needs.
- Deal with information from various other sources affecting liability, recovery, data input, administration, daily report work in line with process and maintain/update online computerised systems.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated applicant who can demonstrate an ability to deal with customers and work as a member of a team and on their own.

The apprenticeship is via the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation (IRRV), with competence based course units which align to the Level 4 Revenues and Welfare Benefits Practitioner Apprenticeship Standard (Revenues Pathway)