Apprentice Administration Assistant

Role Responsibility

A Kent County Council Apprenticeship will give you the opportunity to earn a real salary and gain a real qualification whilst gaining valuable workplace skills and experience.

An opportunity has arisen for 2 Apprentices to join the Ashford and Canterbury Business Support Team within Adult Social Care.

This is a great opportunity to gain a Level 3 qualification in Business Administration whilst working for a large, diverse, rapidly changing organisation.

The Business Support Team is responsible for providing administrative support to 5 Adult Social Care Community Teams, this involves supporting the Council’s vision and providing a consistently high quality, cost effective and timely business support service.

The role includes answering telephone and email enquiries, database recording, taking notes at meetings, maintaining spreadsheets, electronic filing and archiving of documents, financial tasks and providing administrative support to the Community Teams and other stakeholders.  The positions will be based at either Kroner House in Ashford or Brook House in Whitstable.

We are looking for someone with the right attitude who is motivated and keen to learn quickly. If this sounds like you, then we would like to encourage you to apply.

The successful candidate will be educated to GCSE level or equivalent.

Salary starts at £7.75 per hour, with the opportunity to increase after successfully passing a 6-month probation period.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Applying is easy; just click the link below if you feel you are the right person for this role.

Contact Details

Wendy Margott - Tele: 03000 411191 - Email: wendy.margott@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.