Business Administration Apprentice

Summary

Seetec are recruiting for a business administration apprentice to join their team in Exeter. The successful candidate will be working alongside Site Co-Ordinator’s &/or Assistant Employment Advisors. The apprentice will provide support for our office teams. They will oversee a variety of administrative & clerical activities including finance duties.

Annual wage: £14,000 a year
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Training course: Customer service practitioner (level 2)
Hours: Monday to Thursday, 8.30am - 5.00pm. Friday, 8.30am - 4.30pm. 1 hour unpaid lunch break.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Thursday 2 January
Duration: 1 year 3 months
Positions available: 3

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

The Apprentice Administration Apprentice will play a critical part in the smooth and efficient running of designated offices.

Working alongside Site Co-Ordinator’s and or Assistant Employment Advisors, the apprentice Admin Assistant will provide consistent and courteous support for our office teams. They will oversee a variety of administrative and clerical activities including finance duties.

This role is suitable for someone looking to start their office-based career.

Training will be provided through classroom and on-the-job learning.

Greeting office visitors and signposting them to appropriate people or designated areas
Undertake basic office tasks, such as filing, preparing meeting/training areas and presentation materials, delivering mail and data entry
Handle inbound/outbound phone calls and respond to other message types as required (email, SMS, etc).
Coordinating schedules and managing calendars
Supporting onboarding of participants onto programme
Entering and updating company, employee, and client records
Ordering, storing, and distributing office supplies and maintaining, repairing, or replacing office equipment
Directing, reviewing, and optimising office operations to increase accuracy, productivity, and efficiency and reduce costs
Managing the office petty cash including distributing travel costs, scanning receipts and completing finance returns
Supporting the office with any other admin duties as required

Where you’ll work

Merriott House

Hennock Road Central, Marsh Barton

Exeter

Devon

EX2 8NP

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

SEETEC BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CENTRE LIMITED

Your training course

Customer service practitioner (level 2)

Equal to GCSE

Course contents

Use a range of questioning skills, including listening and responding in a way that builds rapport, determines customer needs and expectations and achieves positive engagement and delivery.
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication skills, along with summarising language during face-to-face communications; and/or
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use appropriate communication skills, along with reinforcement techniques (to confirm understanding) during non-facing customer interactions.
Depending on your job role and work environment: Use an appropriate ‘tone of voice’ in all communications, including written and digital, that reflect the organisation’s brand.
Provide clear explanations and offer options in order to help customers make choices that are mutually beneficial to both the customer and your organisation.
Be able to organise yourself, prioritise your own workload/activity and work to meet deadlines.
Demonstrate patience and calmness.
Show you understand the customer’s point of view.
Use appropriate sign-posting or resolution to meet your customers needs and manage expectations.
Maintain informative communication during service recovery.

Your training plan

On the job training delivered by the employer.

Apprentices without Level 2 English and maths will need to achieve this level prior to taking the end point assessment. For those with an education, health and care plan or a legacy statement, the apprenticeships English and mathematics minimum requirement is Entry Level 3.

Allocation of an apprenticeship delivery coach who will carry out regular training.

Assessment and support visits to ensure you acquire new learning, knowledge skills and behaviours in order to progress and develop.
Identify, track and support 6 hours off the job training activities.
Quarterly formal progress review meetings, identifying learning achievements and next steps.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

Maths and English (grade A*-C/ 4-9)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Customer care skills
Administrative skills
Team working
Willingness to learn
Ability to work to deadlines
Professional & Confident

About this company

Seetec is an employee-owned company delivering services - across the employment, skills and rehabilitation sectors – that unlock people’s social and economic potential by helping them into work, develop new skills or turn away from crime. Changing people’s lives for the better in the businesses and communities we serve is the driving force behind our services and the motivation for our exceptional delivery standards. We have significantly grown and evolved from our original not for profit roots in 1984, but throughout our history our commitment to delivering social value has remained at the heart of our culture. Our colleagues – across offices in the UK and Ireland – are dedicated to improving the lives of thousands of people every year by identifying and delivering the support they need to be more skilled, productive and prosperous. Our foundation is the strength of our people and their expertise, insight and determination to change the lives of those they support. It was therefore a logical step at the beginning of 2020 to put our future in the hands of our colleagues and become majority employee owned. We are now one of the largest employee-owned businesses in the UK where every employee is a stakeholder in our collective success. We are a Disability Confident Leader and B-Corp certified, which means we meet rigorous standards on transparency and delivering social value in the places where we work. Seetec holds Investors in People and Investors in Wellbeing Gold status. With people at the heart of every one of our services, we are driven by our overarching aim to empower lives and improve communities. Our commitment to providing effective and innovative service delivery enables us to have a positive impact on people’s lives and improve communities.

Company benefits

• Pension - 5% Employee 5% Employer • Healthcare Cash Plan, incl. 3 x salary life assurance • 2 paid Volunteer Days

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

An apprentice Customer Support Advisor could look at opportunities to progress into a Site coordinator or Assistant Employment Advisor position and then eventually progress into an Employment Advisor position.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

SEETEC BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY CENTRE LIMITED

Apprenticeship Recruitment Team

apprenticeships@seetec.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000287346.

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Closes in 13 days (Thursday 28 November at 11:59pm)

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