Total 4 job vacancies by West Lancashire Borough Council

Are you interested in joining our Executive Support Team here at West Lancashire Borough Council?

We are looking for an experienced Executive Support Officer who is looking for a challenge in a fast-paced role.

You will need to demonstrate your suitability to this role as outlined in the job profile.

You will be responsible in providing a highly efficient, effective, and confidential administrative support service to the Corporate Management Team including, email and diary management, scheduling meetings, prioritising activities including minute taking, preparing agendas, distribution of papers, follow up actions and any other associated tasks or actions as necessary.

You will liaise with service managers, customers, stakeholders including MP's and Elected Members, ensuring that all enquiries are dealt with in a professional, efficient, and effective manner.

This is a very demanding role and has several conflicting priorities. You will need to be self-motivated and be able to use your initiative and prioritise your own workloads.

Your key skills will include:

Excellent organisational skills, including experience of extensive diary management, proactively screening incoming/outgoing emails and calls and acting as a 'gatekeeper' using your own judgement to resolve issues.
Excellent ICT skills, including the ability to use Word, Excel, Outlook and other packages as required.
To handle sensitive and confidential information on behalf of CMT, exercising caution, discretion and maintaining confidentiality at all times.
Willingness to be a team player and a complete finisher with a high attention to detail.
The ability to work proactively and promptly in a number of areas with proven interpersonal skills when liaising and consulting with the Corporate Management Team, Senior Managers, Elected Members and staff across the organisation.
If you are looking for a new and exciting challenge and want to be part of our high performing multi-disciplinary business support service, we would love to hear from you.

For an informal discussion about this position, please contact Tracy Gilligan, Business Support Manager on 01695 583229. To find out more about West Lancashire Borough Council, please follow the link to access our Recruitment Pack and view the attached Role Profile below

Why Us?

It’s time to join West Lancs as we embark on delivering our new and ambitious Vision and Priorities. With a focus on environmental sustainability, generating economic prosperity, building inclusive & healthy communities and financial resilience, we are looking for exceptional candidates to help shape our future. You will be joining an organisation that puts its customers first, takes responsibility and works together with a can-do attitude, all while challenging the status quo to deliver exceptional outcomes for our communities.

Your Role!

We are now looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated person to join our Independent Living team, someone who shares our commitment and motivation to make a difference. Ideally you will have experience of working with older people and understand their needs. In a busy and challenging environment you will provide a range of housing support services that enable residents to remain living independently in their homes; and will link with local services to prevent social isolation and promote health and wellbeing.

To find out more about West Lancashire Borough Council, Please follow the link to access our Recruitment Pack and view the attached Role Profile below.

About You!

With constantly changing priorities we are looking for someone who will be self-motivated, capable of working with minimal supervision and able to demonstrate a proven track record of dealing with customers, ideally in a social housing environment. You should also be a great communicator with excellent IT skills, which you will need to help provide an excellent and efficient service.

You will also ideally have:

Experience of working with older people in a support or care setting
Experience of networking, maintaining and developing effective working relationships with support agencies, Housing colleagues, and other voluntary and statutory agencies for the benefit of clients and documenting actions.
Experience of jointly undertaking Personal Plans, (including risk and needs assessment), with clients and their representatives and work towards achieving identified outcomes.
Knowledge of professional boundaries and safeguarding issues


What's in it for you?

We pride ourselves on our friendliness and being a good employer with a range of benefits and employment terms and conditions to suit you. A competitive salary and annual leave entitlement, flexible working, a generous employer pension contribution scheme, work life balance policies, and support for your personal development are just some of the benefits we offer.

If you are eager to be part of a transformative journey and make a tangible impact, West Lancashire Borough Council welcomes your application.

Are you interested in joining our Business Support Team here at West Lancashire Borough Council?

We are looking for an experienced Executive Support Officer who is looking for a challenge in a fast-paced role.

You will need to demonstrate your suitability to this role as outlined in the job profile.

You will be responsible in providing a highly efficient, effective, and confidential administrative support service to the Corporate Management Team including, email and diary management, scheduling meetings, prioritising activities including minute taking, preparing agendas, distribution of papers, follow up actions and any other associated tasks or actions as necessary.

You will liaise with service managers, customers, stakeholders including MP's and Elected Members, ensuring that all enquiries are dealt with in a professional, efficient, and effective manner.

This is a very demanding role and has several conflicting priorities. You will need to be self-motivated and be able to use your initiative and prioritise your own workloads.



Your key skills will include:

Excellent organisational skills, including experience of extensive diary management, proactively screening incoming/outgoing emails and calls and acting as a 'gatekeeper/using your own judgement to resolve issues.
To handle sensitive and confidential information on behalf of CMT, exercising caution, discretion and maintaining confidentiality at all times.
Willingness to be a team player and a complete finisher with a high attention to detail.
The ability to work proactively and promptly in a number of areas with proven interpersonal skills when liaising and consulting with the Corporate Management Team, Senior Managers, Elected Members and staff across the organisation.
We pride ourselves on being a good employer with a range of benefits and employment terms and conditions to suit you. You will be able to benefit from competitive salaries on an incremental scheme, flexible working, LGPS pension scheme, family friendly policies and healthcare insurance. To read more about the benefits of working for us visit; Benefits of Working for the Council.

If you are looking for a new and exciting challenge and want to be part of our high performing multi-disciplinary business support service, we would love to hear from you.

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic person to join the Environmental Sustainability Team as an Environmental Technical Support Apprentice. You will develop your career in a supportive team that pro-actively works to deliver change.

You will be a key member of the team and will support the delivery of the Council's Climate Change Strategy by providing data and information. In addition, you will gain a wide range of experience by providing assistance across all functions of Environmental Services.

The apprenticeship will last two years and during this time the successful candidate must commit to completing a Level 4 Apprenticeship in Improvement Practitioner: Improvement practitioner (level 4) - apprenticeship training course (education.gov.uk).

You must meet the entry requirements of GCSE in Maths and English Grade 4 – 9 (i.e. C or above) or equivalent comparable work experience. You must also have experience of using MS Office applications including Word and Excel.

You will be office based in Skelmersdale but there may be opportunities to work from home occasionally. It will be an advantage if you can travel to work at different sites including the office in Ormskirk.

To apply for an apprenticeship, you must have legally lived in the UK for the three years immediately preceding the start of the programme. If you do not meet this requirement, please provide full details for verification before your application is submitted.

Employment with the Council is not guaranteed at the end of the apprenticeship.

We pride ourselves on being a good employer with a range of benefits and employment terms and conditions to suit you. You will be able to benefit from competitive salaries on an incremental scheme, flexible working, LGPS pension scheme, family friendly policies and healthcare insurance. To read more about the benefits of working for us, visit: Benefits of Working for the Council.