Administration Assistant

Surrey County Council ,
Dorking, Surrey
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £21,593 per annum

Overview

About the role We currently have an Administration Assistant vacancy based in our Mole Valley Locality Team. We are looking for someone to provide comprehensive administrative support to our Adult Social Care team. You will be undertaking general administrative duties in order to provide support to a dispersed specialised central operational team within Adult Social Care, where supervision at times is off site. You will need to have excellent excel skills, quick and accurate data entry on mainframe database and excel spreadsheets. You will need to be able to both interrogate the database and interpret the data recorded which may be complex in nature. At times you will need to produce ad hoc reports from excel spreadsheets. You will have good communication skills both written and verbal as you will be expected to deal with telephone enquiries and a wide range of correspondence, case recording and scanning duties. In addition, you will have the skills to enable you to take notes and minutes of meetings. You will also be required to proof read/edit items for web supported team bulletin. You will have a flexible, mature approach, will be well organised and able to work under pressure, on occasions, to tight deadlines. You will also have good customer service and excellent IT skills. You will have previous experience of working in a busy office environment and have the ability to work as part of a team within existing working protocols and procedures whilst being proactive and using your initiative within the scope of the job role. For more information please find attached to the bottom of this advert a full job profile.