Team Administrator

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Team Administrator
• Job Location: Dean House
• Salary: £26,427 - £26,847 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 21/09/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 14853
• This post is not open to job share

PAY AWARD PENDING AT 3.3% salary will increase to £26,247 - £26,847 per annum/pro rata for part time

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 who enjoys working as part of a team to join our Forest of Dean Locality Team, based in Dean House, Cinderford, Forest of Dean.

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.

You will be part of a friendly, supportive and established team. We offer flexible working with a mix of office and home working.

To find out more about working in the Forest of Dean locality Team, visit our “Meet the Teams” webpage.

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. See more about our Values on our website.

If you hold the same behaviours and approach, then we want to hear from you! In exchange, we will provide you with full training and support to help you succeed in your role.

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.

Gloucestershire County Council provides the following rewards package in return for your hard work:

• Regular formal and informal support
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme
• Access to training and workshops so you can develop your skills
• Clear career progression pathways, to support you in progressing professionally and personally
• 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.
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
• Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

We’re closer than you think:

We are an easy commute from many locations, view our commuting times map to see what we mean.

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.

To arrange an informal discussion with the Team Manager, please email ASCRecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk or click ‘Apply’.

Or click 'Apply'

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Team Administrator - Job Profile

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.