Business Support Assistant – Essex Legal Services

The opportunity is a Fixed Term Contract / Secondment for a period of 6 months.

Interview Date: Monday 24^th March 2025 at Seax House, Victoria Road South, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1QH.

Essex Legal Services ‘ELS’ provide high quality, professional, legal advice across the Council and to increasing numbers of external clients.

As part of the Practice Management function, you will be working closely with colleagues within a small team to deliver high quality business support to legal colleagues.

The successful applicant will be an experienced administrator, with strong organisational skills, strong communication skills and the ability to build good working relationships leading to excellent customer service.

Accountabilities

• Contributes to the delivery of high-quality business support services, including all aspects of administration, postal services, creating and maintaining records and databases, across Essex Legal Services.
• Works collaboratively with colleagues for understanding customer needs to provide them with a service they value, driving the delivery of productivity and efficiency improvements.
• Responsible for delivering against personal objectives which support the wider function strategic vision.
• Contributes to the development and improvement of local systems and processes to improve efficiency and service delivery.
• Ability to develop good working relationships with colleagues/stakeholders and clients to ensure a quality service is provided to the customer.
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The Experience You Will Bring

Essential:

• Educated to ‘A’ level or equivalent by experience.
• Evidence of knowledge in relevant professional area and a willingness to develop.
• Experience of working within an administrative or business management environment, within the public or private sector.
• Ability to build good working relationships across a large, complex organisation with colleagues and customers.

Desirable:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

To read more about us please visit: Corporate Services

Why Essex?

Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England’s oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest – Basildon and Harlow – are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us here.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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