Admin Assistant

Do you have a passion for working with young people?

Would you like to support young people to achieve better outcomes and a positive future?

Barnardo's Employment, Training and Skills Yorkshire have a fantastic opportunity for a proactive and enthusiastic admin assitsant to join our business support team and help us continue to provide first class admin support to our busy teams and young people.

**About ETS Yorkshire**

Barnardo's Employment, Training and Skills Yorkshire is a Work Based Learning Provider based in Bradford. From this service we provide learning and skills programmes for young people aged 14-24 including: DfE 16-19 Study Programme, Alternative Provision, Apprenticeships, including those delivered to our staff team across England and corporately funded employer recruitment programmes.

Barnardo's Employment, Training and Skills Yorkshire aims to engage, motivate and support young people to achieve qualifications, progress and secure sustained positive destinations such as further education or employment to improve their own life chances and provide a positive future.

**About you**:
As an Admin assistant, you will provide high quality administrative support with a flexible approach to work and the ability to prioritise a heavy workload, as you will be managing multiple tasks at any one time. You will be competent and self-motivated with fantastic verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience of IT systems including the use of word, Excel and database systems.
- Experience of general office procedures including archiving.
- Experience of data inputting, maintaining records and producing statistical reports.
- Experience of telephone/reception duties.
- Experience of Financial Recording keeping.
- Well-developed numeracy and literacy skills.
- Experience of COSHH/Health & Safety checks desirable.
- Pay & Reward Framework
- We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's _values_. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people._
- For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our _People & Culture_ Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay._
- Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
- About Barnardo's
- At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.