Clerical Assistant - G1185, G1186 Bishopbriggs   £15,402 - £18,346

Low Moss Prison, Bishopbriggs

Community – Social Work Post Title : Clerical Assistant Full Time (2 Posts) Grade : Grade 4 (£15,402 - £17,354) Hours : 35 Hours Location : Lowmoss Prison, Bishopbriggs We are looking for two enthusiastic, flexible, self motivated individuals to join the busy Social Work team based at Lowmoss Prison in Bishpbriggs. The successful candidates will, under the direction of their line manager, liaise closely with Social Work staff to ensure the delivery of an effective and efficient administration service that meets their business needs. Duties will include word processing, diary management, recording information via databases, spreadsheets and other management information systems and telephone/reception duties.

Essential requirements for this post include good organisational and interpersonal skills, computer literate with good keyboard skills and the ability to work to timescales and on your own initiative.

It is desirable that you have relevant experience in delivering high quality customer focused administration support within a busy environment and knowledge of Social Work management information systems.

You should be a keen team player with good communication skills, an interest in Social Work and a desire to work within an interesting and busy environment. CHARTER OF COMMITMENT


The commitment by East Dunbartonshire Council to job applicants is as follows:

• Individuals will be treated in a polite, friendly and welcoming manner.

• Equalities monitoring will be conducted to ensure a fair and equitable process with screening being carried out to anonymise sensitive information such as age, gender and disability.

• The information that we receive will be treated in confidence and with discretion. Only the relevant HR representative/team and the relevant service will see the application form.

• We will encourage and welcome applications from applicants under the disability symbol. Where the essential criteria are met an interview will be offered to those applying under the disability symbol.

• We will be pleased to make any reasonable adjustments to ensure accessibility at the interview.

• We will advise you within reasonable time after the closing date if you have not met the interview criteria. (Normally within 4 weeks)

• We will advise you of meeting the criteria for interview normally within 3 weeks.

• We will advise you if you have been successful or unsuccessful at the interview stage as soon as practically possible.
Link to East Dunbartonshire Council website

Job Reference:   EAD002109

Closing Date:     15-Feb-2012

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