Apprentice Business Administration - Waverley Court

Job Description

Corporate Services

Modern Apprenticeship - Business Administration - fixed term for 2 years
Waverley Court

Salary: £23,087- 23,288 per year
Hours: 36 per week

These posts will be based in the Service Improvement Team under Tennant and Resident Services

Modern Apprenticeships (MAs) offer new entrants to the labour market the chance of paid employment combined with the opportunity to do training relevant to the occupational area. They include the opportunity to gain nationally recognised qualifications that help kick-start a career without having to study full-time. New entrants include school and college leavers, those with no previous work experience and/or vocational qualifications.

As a MA Business Administration you will be required to assist in the provision of a range of support services for professional and office activities to achieve service targets and quality customer care.

Purpose of Post

You will be involved in the Council’s Modern Apprenticeship Scheme and will be supervised to undertake the following tasks:

• Production and handling of documents
• Maintaining efficient Electronic and Manual Filing systems
• Providing a service to customers.
• Using ICT to complete tasks
• Other duties as required

Applicants must have left secondary education in the past three years or currently on a City of Edinburgh Council employability training programme or aged up to 29* with disability or care experience.

You must have at least 3 National 4 or 5s or equivalent in relevant business related subject areas. eg English, Maths, Business Studies, ICT, Communications.

N.B. – Applications will be accepted from those awaiting exam results.

Willingness to participate in a Modern Apprenticeship programme.

*Due to criteria for external funding for qualification.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.  Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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