Wigan Life Centre South
College Avenue
Wigan
WN1 1NJ
Salary: Apprenticeship Wage: £15,839 per annum, £8.21 per hour
37 hours per week
Temporary for 18 months
Your role:
You will be expected to provide a full and comprehensive administrative support service to the Health Protection and Civil Contingencies Team. This will involve dealing with internal and external customers both face to face and on the telephone, operating ICT systems and providing general support to the team.
You will learn about health protection, infection prevention and control; and emergency planning; how the team coordinates the response to incidents of communicable disease outbreaks and civil contingencies in partnership with ‘blue light’ services, heath and other partners.
You will also be required to spend a proportion of your time undertaking the Business Administrator Level 3 Standard qualification and will gain a range of experience whilst learning from professionals within the organisation.
About you:
You’ll need to have GCSEs A-C in Maths and English and ideally have some experience of using the Microsoft Office Suite and be able to learn how to use different types of software that the team use. You must not be qualified to Business Administrator Level 3 Standard or above.
We are looking for someone who can work as part of a team; as well as on their own – capable of managing their own time and with guidance/assistance priorities their work.
You must be able to accurately note phone calls and meetings, have a good telephone manner, be able to communicate important information to others and a realisation of when you need to seek help – this is critical to working in the team.
About us:
Wigan Council has been voted ‘Council of the Year’ at the 2019 LGC Awards and has recently published The Deal 2030, our ambitious plan for our borough. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.
We are small, hardworking, friendly, award winning team and the first combined Health Protection and Civil Contingencies Team in the region. The team ensures that the Council delivers its statutory and non-statutory obligations under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
We are developing our Vision is to ‘Continually Developing the Resilience of the Borough and Protecting People’; so there are plenty of opportunities to not only learn about the work we do but help us develop new ways of working – this will be a challenging and exciting time to join us – if you are the right person we are looking for.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Andrew Sharrock, Zelda Calland or Jo Crooks on 01942 404240.
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Closing Date: Sunday 4th August 2019 at 23;59
Interviews to take place on Wednesday 14th August 2019
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