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Administrator - Civil Service

  • Location:

    Barnsley

  • Sector:

    Admin & Secretarial

  • Job type:

    Temporary

  • Salary:

    Up to £11.44 per hour

  • Contact:

    Abigail Brown

  • Contact email:

    [email protected]

  • Job ref:

    BBBH378699_1726759236

  • Published:

    26 days ago

  • Expiry date:

    7/10/2024

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

Job Description

Administrator - National Probation Service

Location: Barnsley

Pay: 11.44 per hour

Job Type: Temporary

Sector: Public Sector

Hours: 16 hours per week (This role may involve some out of hours work.)

A Little Bit About Us:

Brook Street have grown into one of the UK's leading recruitment agencies − matching thousands of people with meaningful job opportunities at more than 4,500 companies every year. Delivering a quality service to suit the needs of clients and candidates alike was important to our founder Margery Hurst and it remains important to us today.

Recruitment is about so much more than just filling job vacancies. It's about giving people the chance to unleash their full potential, through their perfect new role.

About the Client:

The Probation Service is a statutory criminal justice service that supervises high-risk offenders released into the community.

What Will Be Your Day to Day Tasks?

We are seeking a compassionate and patient Administrative Officer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience in administrative roles, care giving, or a similar background.

This role is vital in ensuring that our Probation Officer can perform their duties effectively, with the necessary adjustments and help. If you are empathetic, patient, and have a background in administration or care giving, we encourage you to apply.

Key Tasks:

  • Provide administrative aid to a Probation Officer requiring workplace adjustments due to a disability.
  • Assist with various administrative tasks to alleviate workload pressures, allowing the Probation Officer to focus on other critical areas.
  • Maintain an empathetic approach, ensuring a smooth work flow and effective assistance.

Requirements:

  • Demonstrated patience, and empathy in previous roles.
  • Strong administrative skills and attention to detail.
  • Experience in customer service, care giving, or personal assistant roles is beneficial.
  • Knowing the importance of not performing the Probation Officer's duties but providing necessary assistance.

What's in this for you?

Working as an administrator in the National Probation Service offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the criminal justice system by providing vital administrative support.

This position allows individuals to develop strong communication and organisational skills while engaging with a diverse range of people, including probation officers, clients, and stakeholders. Additionally, working in this capacity provides a sense of fulfilment by being part of a team dedicated to promoting rehabilitation and public safety within the community.

Please note we are seeing a large volume of applications per role and therefore we ask that if you have not heard 7-14 working days to presume you have on this occasion been unsuccessful.

Diversity in the workplace:

Brook Street are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.

As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.

Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.

In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.

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