Administrative Support Officer
Waverley Court
Salary: £26,337 - £28,835
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
We are looking for an exceptional Administrative Support Officer to join our newly established Governance and Business Management function, within the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership.
We are looking for the Administrative Support Officer to:
* Provide a reliable administrative support service through a variety of formats including; telephone, face to face, email, and online using both Council and NHS systems.
* Work proactively to facilitate administrative support to the full range of services and activities.
• Handle sensitive and personal information in line with appropriate Council and NHS policies and confidentiality guidelines.
* Work within a team of administrative support staff dealing with activities in the Strategic Planning function through provision of information, guidance, or progressing requests to wider council services.
* Work within agreed timescales to meet legal and statutory obligations.
• Deliver administrative support to teams within the policies and procedures on the Council and NHS.
* Use appropriate systems to process service requests or updates for wider council or NHS services.
* Work with all administrative support staff to support new initiatives and the strategic direction of the Partnership and ensuring that that all services are planned in a consistent manner in accordance with the Partnership's strategic objectives.
If you wish to have an informal chat regarding the role, please contact Angela Brydon, Governance and Business Manager
This post is an integrated post so prospective candidates can choose as appointment to accept either City of Edinburgh Council or NHS Lothian terms and conditions of employment.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.
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