Administrator - Public Health

**About Us** As we learn to live with Covid-19, we have an exciting opportunity available for you to join our Public Health team and make a real difference to our West Sussex Community West Sussex County Council is a diverse organisation that provides services to more than 850,000 residents every day. As part of the Directorate of Public Health, Health and Social Care, the Public Health Department is a progressive, multi-disciplinary department committed to improving health and tackling inequalities in West Sussex. The Department of Public Health is thechief source of specialist public health advice and leadership within West Sussex. The key role is to "protect and improve lifelong health and wellbeing of everyone in West Sussex by commissioning evidence-based services and empowering people to make healthierchoices". The Directorate also works closely with local agencies and partnerships to ensure the widest possible participation in the health and health care agenda. For more information about West Sussex County Council, please visit our **WSCC About Us** page. **About The Job** The position of Administrator-Public Health will be within the Public Health Directorate at West Sussex County Council (WSCC) working closely with colleagues within the Business Assurance Team and across the Public Health Directorate portfolios. You be responsible for providing a full fast-paced and flexible, first class administrative support service. You will be exposed to confidential and highly sensitive information and will be expected to work within relevant legislative and policy frameworks. The work environment is friendly and supportive, and you will be valued and an integral part of the Team as you support the delivery of services to a wide range of workstream activities as well as helping to implement improvement programmes. You will handle direct queries from across the Directorate and the partners/stakeholders with which the Directorate has regular engagement. The work will be varied and will include, by way of example: organising, preparing for, co-ordinating and supportingmeetings; preparing and ensuring access to documents for meetings; supporting diary management; note taking specific meetings for which alternative recording technologies are inappropriate. The role holder shall provide support to the Business Assurance Manager to ensure appropriate business support functions are in place to provide compliance with corporate policies, procedures and processes. **Experience and Skills** **Key Skills**: - Advanced analytical skills to interpret and manipulate varied and complex project information in relation to services required by the client. - Ability to organise, plan and meet set targets and deadlines, for example, the provision of urgent project reports required by client. - Developed communication and interpersonal skills to interact effectively with a range of high - level clients/stakeholders and create and maintain effective working relationship and provide coaching to clients/colleagues on process or documentation. - Strong problem - solving skills with the ability to anticipate problems and resolve issues independently, planning solutions and making sound pragmatic decisions. - Excellent literacy and numeracy skills to understand and to carry out financial analysis and reporting. **Qualifications and/or experience**: - GSCE English and Maths, or equivalent qualification or experience demonstrating that level of literacy and numeracy. - Experience of providing a professional administration / business support service, advice and / or guidance to others. - Experience of forming effective working relationships. - Good, up-to-date working practices including experience of inputting data and using databases. - Experience of working in a fast paced, innovative work environment, whilst remaining calm. - Experience of working in a health or social care environment - **_Desirable_**: - Experience of handling sensitive, highly confidential and sometimes distressing, customer related information. - Experience of working with spreadsheets, IT systems, note taking, invoices and payment systems. Good IT knowledge, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. - Experience of working in office environments where confidentiality and GDPR practices are of the utmost importance. **Rewards and Benefits** As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewardedfor the work they do. For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our **Rewards and Benefits** page.