Part Time Office Administrator

<p>Sewell Wallis are currently recruiting for an experienced Administrator on behalf of our client who are based in the East Leeds area. This is a newly created position which has arisen due to growth. This will be a part-time position, working 5 hours over 5 days.</p><p>The ideal person will have 2 years' administrative experience, ideally within a social care environment and will possess strong communication and computer skills.</p><p><strong>What will you be doing?</strong></p><ul><li>To welcome visitors, ensuring they sign in, informing the person they are visiting that they have arrived, and ensuring they sign out when they leave, where possible.</li><li>Answering the phones, transferring phone calls or taking messages and passing them on as appropriate.</li><li>Management of enquiries for residents, respite and day care, including registering them on the database and keeping it up to date, arranging and providing tours of the home, providing all necessary paperwork and following up in a timely manner.</li><li>Arranging assessments of potential new residents and day care clients with the appropriate managers, adding them to the calendar and providing them with details of the potential resident/client and the appropriate paperwork.</li><li>Ensuring there is a stock of all required paperwork in the staff room, such as holiday forms and timesheets, amendment forms, note sheets, charts, etc.</li><li>Monitoring stock levels of stationery and collating orders when required.</li></ul><p><strong>What skills are we looking for?</strong></p><ul><li>2 years experience working in a similar role is essential.</li><li>Experience of working in a social care environment is preferred.</li><li>Strong communication skills, verbal and written.</li><li>Good computer skills, including MS Word and Outlook.</li><li>Ability to work under pressure and deal with emergencies.</li></ul><p><strong>What's on offer?</strong></p><ul><li>Free parking.</li><li>Excellent progression.</li><li>Opportunity to work with a growing business and a supportive team.</li></ul><p>Send us your CV below or contact Becky Gibson for more information.</p><p>To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.</p>

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