Senior Clerical Assistant - REQ06945

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Job title: Senior Clerical Assistant

Work Location: Coatbridge Community Centre, Old Monkland Road, Coatbridge, ML5 5EA 

Hours: 35 hours per week

Rate of pay: NLC5 (£27,937 – £29,666)

There is an exciting opportunity to join the community facilities team as a Senior Clerical Assistant. The community facilities support team undertake a variety of tasks to administer bookings within North Lanarkshire’s community facilities and school estate. 

We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, hardworking and reliable individual to help lead our team in delivering high standards of customer care to the local community.  Your main duties will include co-ordination and delegation of tasks, customer care, and ensuring the provision of administrative and clerical support to the office manager, management team and users of the school and community centre estate.

You must have experience of working in an administrative/clerical role and of working with a bespoke booking system along with excellent keyboard skills and experience of using Microsoft Office computer applications. Some experience of staff supervision would be desirable. It is essential that you have experience of processing orders/invoices and personnel information.

You should also have excellent administration, communication and customer care skills with the ability to work on your own initiative.  A flexible approach to work is required along with an understanding caring approach to Community Centre users.  

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 27 days annual leave and 6 public holidays*, and a wide range of benefitsavailable to you,find out more at work well NL.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. 

North Lanarkshire Council has reached its current allocation of Certificates of Sponsorship and, as a result, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time. 

We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. 

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. 

North Lanarkshire Council is committed to #KeepingThePromise. This means that if you have ever been in care (looked after at home with a social worker, lived with a relative other than your parents, experienced foster, residential or secure care) you are entitled to a guaranteed interview for this post, as long as you meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. This is one way North Lanarkshire is demonstrating our commitment to supporting Care-Experienced People. 

The Plan for North Lanarkshire is to be the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit. The Council recognises that work is an important part of adult life and is critical to our wellbeing and shaping how we live. The Fair Work Convention’s Framework defines Fair Work as work that offers effective voice, fulfilment, opportunity, respect and security. We believe Fair Work can boost creativity, realise untapped potential and increase productivity. To find out more click on the link. 

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 

***PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT ACCEPT CVS IN PLACE OF THE APPLICATION FORM. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS VACANCY YOU MUST ENSURE AN APPLICATION FORM IS SUBMITTED. ANY CV SUBMISSIONS WILL BE DISREGARDED.***