Senior Administrative Assistant

Senior Administrative Assistant

Job Reference: HCC624595

Salary Range: £25,186 - £26,244 pro-rata, per annum (actual salary £20,420 - £21,278 per annum)

Work Location: Gosport Community Link, Gosport

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 9 August 2026

The Role:

Join our friendly team as a Senior Administrative Assistant at Gosport Community Link where we provide day services for adults with learning disabilities.

As an integral part of our small supportive team, you'll carry out vital administrative tasks at Gosport Community Link ensuring the smooth running of our service.

What you'll do:

• Monitor and respond to emails and phone calls.
• Act as first point of contact for all visitors and staff.
• Build and establish positive working relationships with staff and service users.
• Resolve queries and escape complex queries where required.
• Data checking and monitoring, including working with spreadsheets.

What we're looking for:

• Previous administrative experience.
• Team player with a customer focused approach.
• Resilient and adaptable to changing demands, remaining calm and professional.
• Good IT skills, especially MO365 (Word, Outlook, Excel) and willing to develop these further.
• Good attention to detail, organisation and prioritisation skills.
• Shows patience, compassion, and empathy in all interactions. You'll treat service users with dignity and respect.

Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK.

Values Based Recruitment:

We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults' Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:

Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.