Administration Assistant - Corby, United Kingdom - North Northamptonshire Council

North Northamptonshire Council

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Corby, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About the role
If you want to play an active role in improving people's lives, in a team developing and delivering a professional, customer focused and efficient housing maintenance service to the tenants of North Northamptonshire, we may have just the job for you

We are seeking an experienced Administrative Assistant to join the Housing Property Services Team based at the Council's Depot at Fleming Road, Corby responsible for delivering the repair and maintenance service for the council's 8,000+ tenants.

What will you be doing?
Providing administrative support to the Capital Investment Team (Planned)

Providing administrative assistance to the Housing Property Services team as required.

Promoting good standards of customer care and quality of performance.

About you

We are looking for an experienced Administrative Assistant to join the Capital Investment (Planned) Team, providing administrative and financial support in delivering planned maintenance programmes.

You will be a good communicator with excellent organisational skills and a commitment to providing exceptional customer service. You are someone who can build effective working relationships with colleagues, suppliers, contractors and customers alike. You will enjoy working as part of a team, whilst also being able to work unsupervised.

About us

We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country.

Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.

Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services

Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.

Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.

We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete._

Our benefits

We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.