Administrative Support Assistant

**Department**:Business Support
**Location**: Near Reading
**Salary**: £26,343 per annum
**Closing date**:24/11/2024

Further administrative tasks will include undertaking general reception duties, managing requisitions and utilising systems to raise orders, ensuring customer requirements are achieved within financial constraints.  Being responsible for taking delivery and despatch of incoming/outgoing mail, stationery and general orders.

A confident communicator, with an aptitude to deal with various levels of internal and external customers, proven time management and with the ability to work to deadlines and manage a varied workload.

This role will be required to travel to various locations across the South East Region for business purposes, covering meetings or providing resilience for administrative tasks at our other Sites.

This role will be based near junction 12 of the M4.

You will be asked to demonstrate flexibility regarding working hours in line with operational demand and occasionally this may require working away from home. For this reason a full **UK Driving Licence is essential to the role.**

**How to Apply**

The leadership within CTPSE and SEROCU are actively committed to embedding and sustaining an inclusive culture that recognises and champions the diversity of our people, and promotes equity and equality so that everyone can succeed at work. The region is delivering this commitment through a long term strategy that takes a holistic and intersectional approach to wellbeing & inclusion. Our strategy is underpinned by the five strategic objectives;
- Inclusive Culture - We will create, embed, and continually develop an inclusive culture for our people.
- Engaged & Involved - We will ensure our people are engaged, involved, and listened to.
- Wellbeing - We will prioritise the wellbeing of our people.
- Representation - We will attract, recruit, retain and develop a diverse workforce.
- Inclusive by Design - We will ensure that inclusion is a core principle of our policies, products, and decisions.

Our people say that benefits include a good work/life balance, a supportive and welcoming place to work and excellent terms including a generous pension scheme and annual leave entitlement.

Shift allowance, on-call or other job related allowances from your previous role will not be protected unless they are attached to the new role.

**Required knowledge/skills**
**Essential**

1. Good standard of education, excellent literacy and numeracy skills, with good communication and technical skills at all levels (e.g. NVQ Level 1 in Administration/Customer Services, equivalent or proven experience in a similar environment).

2. Proven interpersonal skills and the ability to promote professional working relationships with personnel at all levels. This skill will have been developed in a demanding office environment where they will have regularly demonstrated discretion, tact and diplomacy, multi-tasking, enthusiasm, initiative, and flexibility.

3. Proven ability to work to deadlines, handle diverse information, manage a substantial workload and solve problems with a minimum of supervision.

4. IT literate with experience in MS Applications; proven ability to manipulate data from a variety of sources and databases and willing to learn new technology, databases and systems.

5. Must have capability to travel to different locations across the Force and undertake all assignments in a timely manner.

**Desirable**

6. Experience of recording minutes in high level meetings with an ability to understand the context of meetings.

7. Knowledge and understanding of relevant policing policies and procedures advantageous.

**What we can offer you**
- Annual leave: Ranging from 24 days annual leave up to 30 days leave, dependent on your broad band and length of service.
- Generous defined benefits scheme, via the Bucks County Council Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Blue Light Card: Staff have the opportunity to join the national Blue Light Card scheme which offers discounts on a variety of products and services to those working in the emergency services, NHS and Armed Forces (for example, 10% off in Starbucks).
- Military Resettlement Bonus.
- Benefits Platform: Access to the TVP Benefits Platform which offers a range of discounts from top high street and online stores (provided by Reward Gateway)
- Career Development:

- Coaching and mentoring support
- Developing Potential Programme
- Support for Study
- Training courses
- Financial:

- Contributory pension scheme
- Debt management support
- Group insurance scheme
- Savings scheme
- Health & Wellbeing:

- Chaplaincy
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Flexible working & Supportive culture
- Discounted gym membership
- Mind Blue Light support
- Occupational Health services
- Reimbursed eye tests for VDU users
- Welfare services
- Workplace needs assessments and support
- Free Flu Vaccinations
- Travel:

- Bus concessions
- Cycle to work schem