SWRK - G1 Clerical Assistant 606042

ACTUAL CLOSING DATE:
Applications must be received by16 September 2026 at 11:55pm.

Location: Brandon Gate, Hamilton

Hours: 17.5hrs per week, permanent

Work Pattern: Alternate Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Salary / Hourly Rate: £14,006 - £14,179

We have an exciting opportunity to Join our South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Performance and Support Service Team based in Brandon Gate, 1 Leechlee Road, Hamilton, ML3 0XB
. This post is a permanent part time post working Alt Wednesday - Thursday 08:45 - 16:45 and Friday 08:45 - 16:15.

This is a rewarding role which gives you opportunity to positively contribute towards South Lanarkshire Heath and Social Care Partnerships public service delivery.

If you are keen for career development and want to progress within our service, join an admin team where we encourage forward thinking and new ideas, and where there are development opportunities which could lead to promotion.

You would be part of a successful, well established administration service working in a fast-phased environment and as a Grade 1 Level 4 Clerical Assistant,along with your line manager, you will supervise the workload of the clerical staff working within an administration team, ensuring duties are carried out in accordance with timescales. You will undertake a wide variety of admin duties including coordinating the generic Outlook mailboxes, managing task rotas to facilitate hybrid working, update the Social Work Case Management systems, provide a word processing service, maintain spreadsheets, answer and field phone calls, minute taking, scan and index documents and other general admin tasks to support our colleagues who provide a frontline service to the community.

We welcome applications from people who are enthusiastic and motivated and have good keyboard, oral and written communication skills and a good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, to provide a comprehensive admin support to our operational colleagues, undertaking a range of clerical tasks.

View the Clerical Assistant job profile.

Do you have experience working in a busy office environment undertaking various clerical tasks, working to tight timescales?

Would you consider your organisational skills to be excellent?

Do you have practical experience of working with various IT packages

Performing - Please study the Job Profile and provide examples of your work, or other activities with demonstrate your ability or aptitude to undertake duties of the post, please include any other information that you feel is relevant to your application e.g. personal qualities, achievements at work, non-work related or voluntary work experience.

Working with others - South Lanarkshire Council is committed to delivering excellent customer service. Please describe how you would ascertain and manage client expectations, while still delivering excellent customer service.

Flexible - Give an example of how you maintain a flexible approach to work in relation to changing deadlines and priorities.

Efficient - Give an example of a time where you have had to make an important decision, what was it, how did you make it and did this have an impact on others?

This post is excepted in terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Scotland Act 2020.

An Overseas Criminal Records Check is required where applicants born outside the UK (Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland) or who have lived or worked outside the UK for a continuous period of 12 months in the past 10 years.

Applicants are responsible for providing evidence of the Overseas Criminal Record Check. The check must be translated into English and should come from the police, judicial…