Clerical Assistant/Typist (2 Posts)

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Clerical Assistant/Typist (2 Posts)

35 hours

Wishaw Social Work Locality

NLC3 £20,949 - £21,944

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated people to join us to help deliver a professional and high performing business and administrative support service within our locality based social work teams.

If successful in your application, you will have an opportunity to join one of our dedicated resource teams who undertake a varied and diverse range of admin tasks. This can include dealing with enquiries from the public and partner agencies; inputting and extracting data from IT systems and databases; preparing letters, reports etc; cash handling and organising and minuting meetings.

You should have some knowledge or experience of working in an office environment and be able to demonstrate good organisation, communication and interpersonal skills.  A working knowledge of working with IT systems including Microsoft software packages and the ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality regarding all aspects of work are essential.

Working here at North Lanarkshire Council

If you’re considering a career with us, you’ll be keen to know what’s in it for you.  We have a great package of benefits available, from health and wellbeing to finances and family.  This includes 26 days annual leave and 6 public holidays*, and a wide range of offers available to you through our NLLife reward site.  We also have a full package of learning and development through our learning academy LearnNL to help you reach your full potential and further your career.

For more information on local authority careers visit the myjobscotland career hub

North Lanarkshire Council are Happy to Talk Flexible Working, we operate a
Smarter Working Policy.

Click here to see our Recruitment Charter.

*For all casual/sessional roles, you will receive 12.1% of your hourly rate for every hour worked in total recompense for annual leave, including public holidays. These rates will be indicated separately on your payslip.  You will only be paid for the hours that you work.

  

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the minimum requirements for the position.

We have also adopted the Armed Forces Community Covenant to show our support for service personnel, veterans and their families. We offer a guaranteed interview for service leavers, spouses, reservists and veterans, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.

Alternative Application Packs can be requested in other formats for example, Large Print, Braille, and Audio. To request an alternative Application Pack please phone 01698 403151.

The following link contains our Easy Read documents which will help explain the process and what happens during the selection process.

Easy Read – My NL