We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Lancashire to assist with the appointment of a Personal Assistant, on a 3- month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £13.47-16.51 per hour

Summary:

The role of a Personal Assistant is to provide personal assistant support to Directors of the Senior Leadership Team and make sure the procedures and services are completed to an agreed quality standard or specification. A Personal Assistant may deal with issues that will mean they need to be able to use a high level of initiative in order to recommend the best course of action. Communication skills are important as you will be expected to interact with internal and external 'customers' regularly as well as high importance stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Select appropriate procedures to carry out tasks of an increasingly high-risk nature due to supporting Directors
• Maintain and provide a support service for Directors daily schedule, including forward planning of workload, diary management and co-ordinating and collating all relevant paperwork.
• Manage the diary to ensure that adequate opportunity is afforded for comfort breaks, responding to e mails, staff, emergencies, relay messages and commission work.
• Service meetings, including preparation of meeting papers, obtaining, and preparing briefing materials and presentations, and taking minutes when requested/where necessary
• Provide information and practical, routine advice to internal customers by interpreting established procedures and applying best practice.

Qualifications:

• 4 GCSE Grades A-C including English and Maths
• May be working towards a professional qualification or be of graduate entry level with sound practical experience.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft programmes especially Outlook, PowerPoint, Word and Excel
• Experience of working alongside senior leadership in a supporting role
• Experience of supporting a director as a PA and the functions that come with that such as minute taking and diary management

Please note:

• You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
• You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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