Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £25,191 - £25,590 per annum
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract Type: Fixed Term for 18 Months
Closing Date: 16th November 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
Are you looking for a career in Local Government and have an interest in Environment and Transport?
If so, this exciting opportunity may be for you…
Join our busy team as a Business Support Apprentice learning a range of tasks supporting the Environment and Transport Department.
About the Role
The duties of this exciting role include:
* Be responsible as the Duty Desk Person, managing emails, calls and supporting colleagues in the team with tasks.
* Open, sort and distribute incoming and outgoing post
* General office duties such as photocopying, word processing, data input and using a range of equipment such as plotters, scanners, laminators.
* Be efficient in using Microsoft Office packages, word, excel, outlook and search engines.
* Assist with arranging meetings and taking notes at informal meetings
* Be able to process various documents (eg. Timesheets, invoices, orders and letters ensuring accuracy.
* Resolving routine enquiries.
About You
To apply for this post, you must have:
* A good standard of education including English and Mathematics at GCSE Grade or equivalent).
* Good verbal and written communication skills. Including telephone call handling.
* Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise work.
* A willingness to be flexible, learn and undertake a variety of different tasks.
* Clerical experience in a range of tasks to include word processing, filing, photocopying, taking and relaying messages, data inputting / maintaining records.
* Using Microsoft Word and Excel including using Microsoft Outlook or another e-mail / internet package.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for this role.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Julie Bolton
Office Manager
or
Or Laura Billson
Team Leader
How to Apply
Please apply sending us your CV as well a supporting statement, detailing how you meet the requirements of the post. The supporting statement should be no longer than 500 words. Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: .
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