Administration Apprentice

Location: Sewell Group Head Office, Leads Road, Geneva Way, HU7 0DG

Hours: 37.5 hours per week, 8.30am – 5.00pm, Monday to Friday

Salary: Apprentice National Minimum Wage (£6.40 per hour), plus bonus opportunity of up to 20% annual salary based on individual and business performance

Role Overview

Based at the Sewell Group Head Office, reporting to the Head of Comms, the Apprentice will be responsible for providing general day to day administrative support, along with holding core duties of their own to contribute to the delivery of the Group Admin service provided across all Sewell Group businesses. The Apprentice will be the first point of call for all staff and external visitors to the building alongside another team member. The successful candidate for this role will be enrolled in a Level 3 Business Administration Apprenticeship.

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Key Responsibilities

• Welcome and log all visitors to the building
• Answering the telephone and fielding enquiries across all business units
• Providing hospitality for both internal and external meetings, where required
• Providing day to day administrative support for the team on-site, including but not limited to, scanning, copying, updating documents, proofreading documents, conducting online research
• Assisting the receptionist administrator in planning the visitor/hospitality schedule for the following working day
• Carrying out daily AM and PM office checks, including liaising with the on-site cleaning team to maintain high standards within all Office areas
• Carry out weekly office checks to support the on-site receptionist administrator in the ordering of stationery and hospitality items
• Supporting the People Team & Comms Team with the planning and delivery of company engagement, training and wellbeing events across the group

Requirements

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, the successful candidates will have the following:

• Healthy GCSE and literacy grades (in line with apprenticeship requirements) to enable registration and progressive completion of a Level 3 Business & Administration Apprenticeship
• A vibrant, positive and professional attitude and be presentable as the first point of call for both internal and external customers
• Strong desire to deliver unrivalled customer service
• Excellent telephone manner and a flexible and diligent working attitude
• Excellent organisational and communication skills and the ability to prioritise a variety of tasks
• Excellent levels of computer literacy and be comfortable with Microsoft packages.
• A positive approach to learning, development and progression within an administrative environment
• Willingness to support wider business teams
• Have the ability to work both as a team member, and an eagerness to work alone in a busy and fast paced working environment

Sewell Group is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

• Annual bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership – Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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