About The Role
Role: Executive Assistant and PA
Location: Chorley and South Ribble
Contract: Full time (36.25 hours per week/permanent)
Salary: £34,434 – £37,280
Closing Date: 11 January 2025
Are you highly organised, detail‑driven, and ready to play a key role at the heart of local government? We’re looking for someone to support our Senior Leadership Team as they lead the councils for Chorley and South Ribble, shaping services that make a real difference to our communities.
This is a dynamic role where your ability to juggle multiple priorities, manage complex diaries, and liaise with a wide range of stakeholders is essential.
What you’ll be getting up to
* Proactively manage complex and busy diaries for senior leaders.
* Prepare agendas, take accurate minutes, and ensure timely follow‑up on actions from meetings.
* Lead the coordination and timely response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, ensuring compliance with statutory deadlines and maintaining high standards of transparency and accountability.
* Handle complex customer contacts and complaints with professionalism and care.
* Respond efficiently to enquiries from a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
* Maintain and update electronic files, databases, and records with accuracy and confidentiality.
Who we’re looking for
* Someone with strong interpersonal, customer service, and organisational skills.
* Must have the confidence and ability to work on your own initiative and maintain confidentiality in all aspects of the role.
* Be able to work under pressure, flexibly, and as part of a team.
* Experience using Microsoft Office.
* Ability to communicate in writing with strong numeracy skills.
Our Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
* Local Government pension
* Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
* Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
* Volunteering days
* Free parking
About Us
At South Ribble Council, our mission is to provide a first‑class service and improve the quality of life for our communities. Our staff are our greatest resource in helping us achieve this. They’re at the heart of everything we do and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services.
Working Together
We share a number of our services with Chorley Council. This allows for improved resilience across both councils and provides numerous benefits to our operations. Whilst some staff and back‑end processes are shared between the Councils, both Councils still retain sovereignty and have separate strategies and corporate plans.
Additional information
Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.
Interviews are scheduled to take place on 19th and 20th January.
Equal Opportunities
We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices. We’re committed to making our recruitment practices barrier‑free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long‑term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the “Contact Us” page on our website. If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
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