Apprentice Business Support Officer

6 days ago

Huddersfield, United Kingdom Kirklees Council Full time

**We adopt a ‘name blind’ approach to shortlisting. Recruiting managers will not have access to personal information, including your name and contact details, until a shortlisting decision has been made - please note that this also includes any CV uploaded. Equality monitoring information is not accessible by recruiting managers at any stage.**

**Organisation**
- Kirklees**Directorate**
- Place**Service Area**
- Development**Hours**
- 37**Number of Jobs**
- 1**Location(s)**
- Civic Centre 1, High Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2NF & Home Working**Position type**
- Apprenticeship, Temporary**Length of contract**
- 18 months**Grade**
- Apprentice Rate**Salary**
- £11.18 per hour (National minimum wage in first 12 months. The National living wage thereafter)The main purpose of the Building Control Service is to ensure that building work in Kirklees is carried out in compliance with current building regulations and that any potentially dangerous buildings are made safe. We also deal with safety at sporting events and provided advice to the safety advisory group (SAGs). The service comprises of a Building Control Manager, Senior Surveyors, Building Surveyors and Technicians, and a small group of business support officers.

This role requires accuracy of data inputting and knowledge of IT packages such Excel, Word, and Outlook.

Here are some of the tasks you might perform in a typical day:

- Responding to SMILE queries
- Answering telephone calls, giving advice, and passing on messages as appropriate
- Liaising with building surveyors and colleagues throughout the course of all your work
- Take card payments via an automated payment system
- Recording information onto specialist software
- Creating invoices/credit notes and journals for upload to the SAP system
- Electronic filing and occasional scanning
- Booking inspection requests
- Reporting dangerous structures

**Lisa Smith**is the manager for this role, please contact them on 01484 221000 for an informal discussion, or if you need any more information.**
- We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Closing date**

10 January 2025, 11:55 PM

**Important Information**:

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