Team Assistant

4 days ago

Croydon, Greater London, United Kingdom Southern Housing Full time

The role

We have a great opportunity that has arisen within our Direct Services team for a Team Assistant. You'll be providing a full range of administrative and support services, ranging from moderate to complex, to facilitate the effective and efficient operation of the team/department.

Some key duties will include:

  • Developing and maintaining administrative and office systems, databases/spreadsheets, online Fleet related platforms such as Licence check, tracking, TFL, Insurance etc as required.
  • Booking vehicles in for relevant maintenance (MOT, Service, repairs), updating calendars and communicating back to drivers/managers.
  • Arranging, and attending or representing unit/supervisor at meetings, including preparing papers, booking rooms, taking notes, and drafting minutes.
  • Intercepting and screening telephone calls, emails and written correspondence, dealing with, or redirecting enquiries to the appropriate areas/managers, as necessary.
  • Providing project support to the team and to lead on administrative projects such as fuel audits, insurance audits, key audits etc as required.

Your main site will be The Tramsheds, Croydon. You'll have the option to work in a hybrid way, as agreed with your line manager.

What you'll have

  • Experience in an Administrative role.
  • Computer skills sufficient to operate on-line system and complex software or develop formulas for moderately sophisticated spreadsheets.
  • Oral and written communication skills sufficient to interpret and apply policies and procedures and to resolve problems, and to present a professional approach to all customers and stakeholders.
  • The ability to use a variety of software packages to produce correspondence and documents, and maintain presentations, spreadsheets and databases.

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet the above criteria providing examples.

Advert closing date: 4th November 2025 at 23:59 (We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications).

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About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their ownWe also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives.

A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

Pension

Life

assurance

Healthcare cash plan

Eyecare & dental

Birthday

leave

Retailers discounts

Cycle

to work

Buy & sell

annual leave

Season ticket loan

In-house academy & career development

Flexible working

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.

We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.

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