Administrator - Business Support Team - Yate

As an Administrator for the Adult Social Care team, you will provide high‑quality administrative and financial support that ensures teams can deliver the best possible service to vulnerable adults in the community. Your accuracy, organisation and attention to detail will help maintain smooth operations, support effective decision‑making and ensure that vital services run efficiently.

• Providing comprehensive administrative support to Adult Social Care managers and teams, you will ensure that processes are followed effectively and work is completed to a high standard.
• It will be your responsibility to arrange and coordinate meetings, prepare agendas, manage attendance and ensure all associated paperwork is circulated in a timely manner.
• You will take accurate minutes during confidential and sensitive meetings, producing clear and professional documentation within agreed deadlines.
• It will be key for you to support financial processing tasks, including raising and receipting purchase orders, processing invoices and maintaining financial records.
• You will ensure information is stored and retrieved appropriately by maintaining and updating case management and financial systems and running reports.
• Responding to enquiries, you will provide clear guidance on processes, escalating issues when necessary.

• We require you to hold three GCSE's (grade 4 or above) or an equivalent qualification or have experience in office administration.
• You will be able to take and type up accurate minutes of meetings, format documents to a high standard using Microsoft Office and maintain computerised record systems.
• It is essential that you can prioritise your own workload, work on your own initiative and meet deadlines.
• You must have good communication skills and experience of working within a fast-paced environment.
• You will have strong attention to detail, especially when entering data and checking financial information.

• Salary will be pro rated to hours worked.
• Your working days will be Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working out of our offices in Yate, Kingswood and from home.

Interviews will be held on 14th May 2026.

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. 
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.   
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance. 
• We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.  

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here. 

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.   
• We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.   
• We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.    

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.    
We’re making a difference, be part of it!     
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