Gloucestershire County Council
Team Administrator
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Job Title: Team Administrator
Job Location: Cheltenham
Salary: £25,583 - £25,989 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Duration: 18 months
Closing Date: 30/07/2026
Job Requisition Number: 14513
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Are you looking to join a friendly and supportive administration team at Gloucestershire County Council? Then we would love to hear from you!
About the Role
We are looking for a full-time Team Administrator to join our Cheltenham Locality Team on an 18-month fixed-term contract. The successful candidate will enjoy working as part of a team and providing administrative support in a busy environment.
As a Team Administrator you will provide an efficient clerical and administration service for our Adult Social Care Team. This will include:
- Taking calls from internal colleagues as well as members of the public, so a professional telephone manner is a must.
- Inputting data into internal systems.
- Scheduling meetings and booking rooms, as well as taking minutes of meetings.
- Responding to, redirecting emails and managing a generic mailbox.
Training and support in these key areas will be given.
To find out more about working in the Cheltenham Locality Team, visit What does the Cheltenham locality do?
About You
You will have strong communication and organisational skills. Ideally you will have some experience of working in a busy office environment. You will have good IT skills and be a competent user of Microsoft Office.
If you are enthusiastic, proactive and enjoy working within a team, then this could be the ideal role for you!
Our values are at the heart of everything we do and how we treat each other. They provide essential guiding principles about the way that we work and set the tone for our culture, and identify what we, as an organisation, care about.
Above all you should:
- Perform to the highest professional standards and be the best you can be.
- Focus on providing excellent customer service.
- Be inclusive, show respect and value others.
- Work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Be a confident and clear communicator.
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About Us
This is a great time to join Gloucestershire County Council, as Adult Social Care is on an exciting innovation journey, which focuses our approach into being more creative, strengths-based and person-centred, to ensure that we work together to ‘Make the Difference’ to our local communities.
Rewards Package
Gloucestershire County Council provides the following rewards package in return for your hard work:
- 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
- Membership of a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Free offsite car parking
- Safe, supportive and positive working environment
- Regular formal and informal support
- Training and development opportunities
- Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme and Cycle Scheme (T&C's apply)
- Cycle to Work Scheme
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Applying
Please write your application with consideration for the essential criteria in the Job Profile (see link below). Your application should include examples of why you should be considered and cover the experience, skills and knowledge that you would bring to the post.
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For an informal discussion, please contact ASCrecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk to arrange a convenient time for a call back.
Additional Information
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Team Administrator – Job Description
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
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