Business Support Assistant - Galashiels - Paton Street

Job Details

Grade: 4A

Hourly Rate: £12.75 - £13.43

Salary: £23,280.40 - 24,521.40 pro rata per annum

Hours: 17.5

Contract Duration: Permanent


Please note that the annual salary advertised is for a full-time role, based on 35.00 hours per week. If the position you are applying for is part time or you are only going to be working part of the year, i.e., a term time contract for 38 or 39 weeks per year, the annual salary will be paid on a pro-rata basis including a number of additional weeks for annual leave entitlement when the position is term time.

Role Purpose

The post is based within the Resources Admin Team at Paton Street, Galashiels. This team is largely responsible for the admin of all Carer Payments and TCAC payments across the Borders as well as the Kinship, Fostering and Permanence Panel. The team also maintains the Child Placement List for the Scottish Borders. The main role of this post will be providing support to one of our residential placements including assisting with the allocation of purchase cards, handling petty cash and facilitating and minuting team meetings. In addition to this supporting the Resources admin team with a variety of tasks.

Admin are responsible for a range of other tasks including:
• Telephone Answering
• Letter typing and distribution
• Minute taking and distribution
• Use of SBC applications such as Mosaic, Business World, Intranet, One Drive and Microsoft packages
• Processing Police Concern Forms
• Attendance at meetings
• Being first point of telephone/email contact to the public and Professionals
• Monitoring of Team mailboxes
• Completing Mosaic Incoming Work

Essential

Minimum of three National 5's, including English

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be made to Claire Everett by telephone on 01896662799 or by email at claire.everett@scotborders.gov.uk.



Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.