This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
1. Job Title: Clerical Officer
2. Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 2, 1st Floor
3. Salary: £25,185 - £25,989 per annum
4. Hours per Week:
5. Contract Type: Permanent
6. Closing Date: /03/2026
7. Job Requisition Number:
8. This post is not open to job share
About The Team & Role
Our Legal Services team is seeking an administrator to join us. This role is pivotal as it involves managing clerical and finance tasks that are essential to the smooth operation of our office.
As part of this position, you will be responsible for processing invoices and raising purchase orders, ensuring that everything runs seamlessly.
The role is full-time, 37 hours per week. Additionally, you will be providing office cover until 5pm one day per week on a rota basis. We are a small, supportive, and productive team who provide clerical and financial support to the other legal services teams.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will need to have excellent organisational skills to prioritise workloads and maintain our high service levels.
You should also be able to exhibit exceptional customer service qualities while being mindful of confidentiality, which is important in our service.
While it would be advantageous if you have some experience in processing invoices, we will provide all the necessary training.
Please see the job profile below for more information.
About Us
For all your hard work, you will receive the following.
* Flexible and agile working opportunities
* 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
* Plus, an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
* Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
* Career development and qualification opportunities
* Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
* Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
* An in-house Occupational Health service
* Employee discount scheme
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network. Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)
How to apply
Please submit your application and personal statement today by clicking the "Apply Now" Button.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact Dee Williams via email at
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-
Clerical Officer - Job Profile
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
If you are an Internal applicant and consider yourself to have a disability* as per the Equality Act (2010), please declare this in an email to, as this is NOT currently covered in the application due to a technical error.
By providing this information, you can choose to be considered for a guaranteed interview under our Disability Confident pledge if you meet all essential criteria. It also enables the recruiting manager to arrange any reasonable adjustments you may need during the process.
*a disability is defined as: a physical or mental impairment, which has a substantial and long-term (more than 12 months) adverse effect on a person's ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.