Senior Administrative Assistant

**Job Details**:
**Job Reference**: HCC622114

**Salary Range**:£25,186 - £26,244 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £12,933 - £13,476 per annum)

**Work Location**: Fareham Community Link, Fareham

**Hours per week**: 19

**Contract Type**:Permanent

**Closing Date**:14 September 2025

**Interview Date**:26 September 2025

**The Role**:

- Join our friendly team as a **Senior Administrative Assistant**at Fareham Community Link, a day service for adults with learning disabilities. As an integral part of our small, supportive team, you’ll carry out a range of vital administrative and financial tasks that help ensure the smooth running of the service.

**What you’ll do**:

- Build and maintain positive working relationships with staff and service users.
- Resolve queries and escalate complex issues where required.
- Check and monitor data to maintain accurate records, including working with spreadsheets, financial records, and petty cash claims.
- Complete monthly financial reconciliations and support budgetary processes.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Previous administrative experience, with confidence handling financial data and spreadsheets.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships.
- Good IT skills, especially in Microsoft Word and Excel, and a willingness to learn new systems.
- Excellent attention to detail, organisation, and the ability to manage multiple tasks independently.
- Patience, compassion, and empathy in all interactions - treating service users with dignity and respect.

**Why join us?**
- **Make a difference**:Help ensure our residents can participate in meaningful activities, communicate effectively and manage daily living tasks. The role can be emotionally challenging at times, but your commitment will have a lasting impact on the lives of others.
- **Career growth**:Access to a wealth of rewarding career choices.
- **Professional development**:Supportive supervision and continuous learning opportunities.
- **Employee support**:Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
- **Competitive benefits package**: Including generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme. Find more information here.
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**Values Based Recruitment**:
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Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.