Administrative Assistant (Children Admin Services)

Job Description

Role – Administrative Assistant (Children Admin Services)
Location - Children's Services/Community Homelessness Services South, Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership, Gorbals Health & Care Centre, 1st Floor, 2 Sandiefield Road, Gorbals, Glasgow, G5 9AB
Contract Status –Temporary up to 12 Months

Are you interested in working for the largest local authority in Scotland, in partnership with the NHS, to help improve the health and wellbeing of our community? Then, you are in the right place!

We are currently recruiting an Administrative Assistant to join our Business Admin team, which provides vital administrative support across Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (GCHSCP) services. This role is to provide comprehensive clerical and administrative support within Children’s Services which is a busy environment offering assistance to practitioners within a Social Work setting across the South localities.

As an Administrative Assistant, you will be required to guide and support Clerical Officers. Applicants must have previous administration experience, good literacy/numeracy skills, good communication/organisational skills, plus a working knowledge of software packages such as email and other Microsoft Office packages, although training will be provided in relation to service specific software applications.

Applicants must be able to plan, organise and complete allocated work within specific deadlines. Additionally, applicants will be expected to work well as part of a team and deputise in the absence of senior managers in relation to prioritisation of tasks and allocation of work.

Applicants must demonstrate a flexible approach to the needs of the service and may at times be required to work from another work location.

Successful applicants will require to attend and participate in training, including completion of mandatory on-line training courses/briefings.

We are looking for applicants with the ability to deliver excellent customer care in a professional and polite manner while providing a high quality service to our customers.

These roles are excepted under Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 (as amended).

Interviews will take place week commencing Monday 13 April 2026.

If you would like to find out more about the role before applying, you can contact: Elaine Brown, Resource Manager, Children’s Services, Tel: 0141 276 8719 or by email: ElaineSW.Brown@glasgow.gov.uk

 

 

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For more information on Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (GCC) please visit the following websites:

GCC Website and GCC Conditions of Service

 

 

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Further Information

Please note that Glasgow City Council is currently completing a Job Evaluation exercise and introducing a new pay and grading structure which may impact on current salaries quoted in job adverts, see

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