Clerical Officer

Children & Young People, Education, Adult Social Care & Integrated Health Team

St Helens Council is inviting applications for the role of Clerical Officer.

Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.

Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.

About the Role

An opportunity has arisen to join the Legal Services team, where you will provide essential business and administrative support. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a friendly and well-supported legal team with a varied workload.

Our Clerical Officers play a vital role in supporting our services and making a real difference to the lives of our residents.

You will provide comprehensive business and administrative support across the legal team. You will be involved in a wide range of duties, supporting the smooth running of the service and responding to varying and often competing demands and priorities.

You will need to be IT literate and confident in using Microsoft Office applications. Experience of using Case Management Systems would be an advantage. We are looking for candidates who are highly motivated, organised and adaptable, with a willingness to learn and to support the team’s priorities.

We offer a generous benefits package with career average local government pension, at least 25 days holiday increasing to 28 days after 5 years continuous service, with the option to purchase up to 10 additional days, as well as Health and Well-being Employee Assistance programme and car lease scheme.

For further information or an informal chat about these roles, please contact Sharon Hymes – Principal Solicitor on 07734 227372, or email sharonhymes@sthelens.gov.uk.

Making a Difference

Whatever stage of your career, working in the public sector puts you at the heart of communities. Our workforce provides services to our resident's day in and day out, making a positive impact on people’s lives. We could not do this without the dedication, professionalism and strength of our workforce. There are so many reasons to choose to work at St Helens Council including the fantastic range of employee benefits and rewards on offer..St Helens Borough Council | Jobs | Search here for your perfect career - Home Page

St Helens Council is officially recognised as one of the region’s leading fair employers, achieving accredited status under the Liverpool City Combined Authority Fair Employment Charter. The Charter recognises the ongoing commitment to fair pay, secure work, training & progression & staff well-being whilst celebrating employers who go above and beyond for their workforce providing an inclusive and supportive environment.

Equality & Diversity

We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation.

The Council guarantees an interview to disabled applicants who demonstrate that they meet the essential criteria for the job, as detailed on the Person Specification, and will, for qualifying disabled candidates, make reasonable adjustments within the interview/selection process.

The council runs a Guaranteed Interview Scheme. Full details are available on our careers site

You can review full Job Description and Person Specifications as attachments with this advert.

Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment. Application support is available on this careers site.

St Helens Council is officially recognised as one of the region’s leading fair employers, achieving accredited status under the Liverpool City Combined Authority Fair Employment Charter. The Charter recognises the ongoing commitment to fair pay, secure work, training & progression & staff well-being whilst celebrating employers who go above and beyond for their workforce providing an inclusive and supportive environment.

NOLAN Principles of Conduct in Public Life, All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership

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