Purchasing Assistant Apprentice

Role Responsibility

Fixed Term: 12 Months

An exciting opportunity in Community Care Purchasing, part of Access to Resources for Older People and Physical Disabilities has arisen, for a highly motivated Apprentice.

We will support you, over a 12-month placement period, to achieve a Business Administration Level 2 Intermediate qualification to enable you to develop administration skills, customer-handling skills, technical and practical skills, oral communication skills and IT skills.

This apprenticeship post is based at Sessions House, Maidstone (Currently Working from Home). You will be part of a small team and assist in providing a comprehensive level of support to your colleagues in Community Care Purchasing.

The role will involve a wide range of purchasing community care tasks with opportunities to develop, administration, organisational and communication skills. You will gain experience in dealing with issues of a confidential and sensitive nature appropriately. There are also opportunities to build on your confidence through communicating with domiciliary care agencies, staff, managers and professionals, as you develop skills in prioritisation of your work.

You will provide an administrative support service to the Purchasing Team, assisting in the smooth running of the service and undertaking all relevant administrative duties as required. You will act as a first point of contact for the purchasing function, directing and answering queries as appropriate.

If you want to develop your skills to be able to prioritise and organise your own workload, be a team player, work to tight deadlines, be methodical in your approach and have customer focus at the heart of all you do, then this is the opportunity for you.

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.

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

To view and download the job description and person specification for this role please see below.
 

Contact Details

For further information on this role please contact:

Emma Turner on 03000 418 775 or Emma.Turner@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.