Senior administrative assistant Work, Jobs in Ferryhill, Dur (with Salaries)

Senior Personal Assistant
Crown Prosecution Service —Newcastle upon Tyne
- £30,700 - £32,430 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- IT
- Flexitime
7d
Executive Assistant to the Head
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle —Newcastle upon Tyne
- £40,000 - £45,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Customer service
- Microsoft Office
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Annual leave
Quick apply
12d
Junior Office Administrator
ADG Architects Ltd —Darlington
- £25,000 - £30,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Annual leave
Quick apply
Personal Assistant to Chairman & Director (Care Sector)
Careline Lifestyles —Newcastle upon Tyne
- Part-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
Quick apply
13d
Leadership Support Officer
North Yorkshire Council —Northallerton
- £29,064 - £31,537 a year
- Full-time
- Customer service
- Organisational skills
- IT
- Employee discount
13d
Oliver Wyman - Team Assistant - Newcastle
Oliver Wyman —Newcastle upon Tyne
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- CRM software
- Microsoft Excel
Administrative Assistant
Outwood Grange Academies Trust —Cleveland
- £17,254 - £17,525 a year
- Part-time
- School
- Free parking
- Employee assistance programme
Admin Apprentice
Durham University —Durham
- £24,752 - £25,025 a year
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
9h
Executive Assistant
ASSYSTEM —Newcastle upon Tyne
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Microsoft Office
- Travel
- Organisational skills
- Annual leave
Quick apply

Other jobs to consider

Find your next job by exploring related positions.

Senior Administration Officer - Prison Support
HM Prison & Probation Service —Durham
Access to flexible benefits such as voluntary benefits, retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services. NVQ Level 2 or equivalent.
£20,001 - £40,000 a year
College Administration Coordinator
Durham University —Durham
On site nursery is available plus access to holiday camps for children aged 5-16. Ability to provide advice and guidance to a range of colleagues and customers.
£27,319 - £30,378 a year
4d

I want to receive the latest job alerts for senior administrative assistant in ferryhill, dur

By signing in to your account, you agree to SimplyHired's Terms of Service and consent to our Cookie and Privacy Policy.

Explore jobs in more locations

senior administrative assistant jobs near ferryhill, dur

Personal Assistant To Director jobs in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Executive Assistant jobs in Newcastle Upon Tyne

Personal Assistant To Director jobs in Wolverhampton

Executive Assistant jobs in Hertfordshire

Assistant Company Secretary jobs in London

Director Of Estates jobs in London

Personal Assistant jobs in Essex

Personal Assistant To Director jobs in Glasgow

Personal Assistant To Director jobs in London

Personal Assistant To Director jobs in Leeds

Junior Office Administrator jobs in Ryde Po33

Junior Creative Strategist jobs in London

Junior Office Administrator jobs in Canary Wharf E14

Office jobs in Milton Keynes

Junior Office Administrator jobs in Wisbech Pe14

Junior Office Administrator jobs in Dartmouth Tq6

Administrator jobs in North East Region

Executive Assistant jobs in Kingston Upon Thames

Executive Assistant jobs in Oxford

Medical Assistant jobs in London

Senior Personal Assistant

Crown Prosecution Service -
Newcastle upon Tyne

Apply Now

Job details

Permanent | Part-time | Full-time
£30,700 - £32,430 a year
7 days ago

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
Flexitime
Company pension

Qualifications

Presentation skills
IT

Full job description

Details

Reference number

471994

Salary

£30,700 - £32,430

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

CPS - North East

Type of role

Operational Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
Apply and further information

Location

Middlesbrough, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

About the job

Job summary

To provide administrative support to senior managers through the supply of relevant briefings and organisational backup to ensure that they are fully prepared to carry out their allocated duties. To liaise with CPS officials and other government departments and agencies on a range of issues as required. To act as the main liaison, point for the senior manager (and their team as the occasion demands) with other government departments, agencies, various external organisations, and the public.

The Crown Prosecution Service is based in England and Wales. If youre applying for this role and live in Scotland or Northern Ireland, you must let us know when accepting this offer as you need permission to work from your home address if hybrid working is part of your role. Theres no guarantee that we will grant this approval.

You must be aged 16 before starting in this role. The start date is expected to be 8-12 weeks after the application deadline.

Job description

Your roles and responsibilities

Monitor the senior managers correspondence, ensuring that appropriate and timely action is taken to resolve issues, respond to enquiries and requests, and in general maintain business continuity.

Identify key issues and priorities and ensure that these are brought to the attention of the manager at the earliest opportunity; to anticipate problems and future demands on the managers time and to resolve these and plan ahead accordingly.

Build and maintain relationships and foster partnerships with key stakeholders within the Criminal Justice System, other government departments and agencies and relevant external organisations in order to facilitate cross- departmental/organisational collaboration and joined-up working.

Ensure that typed work is executed accurately, complies with the house style, and is completed within agreed timescales.

Maintain confidentiality in all areas of work

A copy of the full job description is attached.

Person specification

This role requires Security Check (SC) clearance, for which you must have a current valid UK address.

To obtain Security Check (SC) clearance, you must also meet the residency requirements set out in the Cabinet Office guidance. For roles within the Crown Prosecution Service, this means you must have been resident in the UK for at least three of the last five years.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £30,700, Crown Prosecution Service contributes £8,893 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Join the Crown Prosecution Service and find your purpose.

The Crown Prosecution Service is passionate about ensuring that we're a top performing organisation and a great place to work. We're a committed equal opportunities employer, creating a culture where you can bring your whole self to work, and individuality is truly appreciated.

This culture of inclusion is underpinned by our staff networks covering disability, faith and belief, LGBTQI+, race, social mobility alongside our mental health first aiders programme and wellbeing sessions.

The Crown Prosecution Service commits to offer its employees the following experience.

You can do impactful, purposeful work thats making a difference to your local communities.
You are able to learn and grow, with access to the right opportunities and resources.
We care about your wellbeing.
We want you to feel valued, trusted and included.

We also offer the following range of benefits:

Civil Service contributory pension of up to 28.9%
25 days leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
£350 each year to spend on personal development
lawyer training programme for all new prosecutors
an extra privilege day to mark the King's birthday
competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
flexible working including flexitime, and a family friendly approach to work
Cycle2Work scheme, employee savings.

Diversity at the Crown Prosecution Service is about inclusion, embracing differences and ensuring our workforce truly reflects the communities we serve. We want you to feel that you belong and can thrive, whatever your background, identity or culture. As a Disability Confident employer, we're happy to support requests for reasonable adjustments and improve your recruitment experience. If you'd like any reasonable adjustments made to our recruitment process, let us know within your application or contact [email protected].

The Crown Prosecution Service has fixed rates for its Executive Officer grade a developing rate (the starting salary) and a spot rate (the maximum salary). Applicants typically join us on the developing rate and, after completing a 15-month development period, move to the spot rate if your line manager confirms youre performing the role to a satisfactory standard.

If youre joining the Crown Prosecution Service on a lateral transfer from another government department, you should contact us about the impact on your salary and the implications of any time youve already spent at that grade before applying or accepting an employment offer. Your salary may be adjusted if your location changes when you join us. This adjustment also takes into account any existing allowances that may have previously been consolidated into your basic pay theres no guarantee that you can retain these when you transfer.

We want to ensure our employees can thrive at work and home and offer a range of support to achieve a balance. This includes flexibility of working hours, flexibility to support caring responsibilities and a flexible approach to deployment. We offer a hybrid working policy. You must spend at least 40% of your contracted hours over a four-week period at court, in an office or another official workplace depending on business need and the kind of work you're doing.

The Crown Prosecution Service also has a range of development programmes to support all aspiring, new and experienced managers with developing the skills, behaviours and knowledge to build their confidence and capability. Our Manager Induction Programme is mandatory for all newly appointed managers. This is a fantastic opportunity to support all our new Crown Prosecution Service managers with the tools required to perform effectively in their roles.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of an online application and interview. These are expected to take place on 27 and 28 August 2026.

Your interview takes place online through Microsoft Teams. A member of our recruitment team will be in touch with guidance. If you have any queries about this, contact [email protected].

You should keep these dates free or notify us if you're not available. We'll make every effort to accommodate your date preferences but we can't guarantee it.

Behaviours

You are also asked to complete a statement of no more than 250 words for each behaviour setting out how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience match the specified behaviours and requirements.

Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

You also need to demonstrate the Crown Prosecution Service or Civil Service values.

The panel has the right to assess the lead behaviour Communicating and Influencing first. If the standard on this behaviour isnt met, the other behaviours wont be considered and your application wont progress. The panel also has the right to raise the minimum standard pass mark. The panel may also refer to the lead behaviour at the interview stage to determine merit order.

Interview

We use behaviours to help us understand your experience, to see if you're a good fit for the role. You are assessed against EO in the Civil Service success profiles behaviours framework. We are assessing 3 behaviours at interview stage

Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Delivering at Pace

Youre not required to upload your CV. However, when submitting your application there is a CV section. You are required to provide information about your employment and/or academic history for the past three years.

Its your responsibility to provide the specified information in the requested format to ensure that you're considered for the post.

If you're unable to cover three years through employment or academic history, you must provide a character reference for clearance purposes.

Strengths

Strengths are tested at interview stage - the strengths tested are not shared before the interview.

Other

This is a full-time post. We do consider requests for flexible, part-time working and job share, always considering the operational needs of the department.

Please note that the CPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship. Therefore, if you require visa sponsorship to work in the UK, you will not meet the eligibility criteria for this role.

Clearance

If successful, you are required to secure a Security Clearance, for which you must have a current valid UK address.

If successfully appointed, we ask you to complete a character enquiry form and nationality and immigration questionnaire

If you're a Crown Prosecution Service member of staff, you wont need to do a Disclosure and Barring Service check as you already hold this clearance.

The job youre applying for is covered by Article 3(a) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, consequently Section 4(2) of that Act doesnt apply. Youre required to disclose all previous convictions and cautions including spent convictions. Failing to make a full declaration will result in withdrawing your offer of employment if our checks reveal convictions that havent been disclosed.

To be cleared to Security Check clearance level, you have to be able to meet the residency requirement in the Cabinet Office guidance. For the Crown Prosecution Service, this is three years within the last five years

Reserve list

If you're recommended by the selection panel but not appointed to the current vacancy, youre put on a reserve list for 12 months. You may be offered another Senior Personal Assistant post in CPS if a vacancy comes up during this period. We may also approach candidates on the waiting list to fill other roles that require similar knowledge and experience.

Fraud check

The Crown Prosecution Service provides a Fair Processing Notice to all new applicants after theyve been successful at interview. These candidates are informed that, as one aspect of pre-employment screening, their personal details name, National Insurance number and date of birth are checked against the Internal Fraud Database. We won't employ anyone included on the database unless they can demonstrate exceptional circumstances.

The Strategic Resourcing team in the Crown Prosecution Service will, on behalf of the vacancy holder, inform applicants when they are refused employment because of their inclusion in the Internal Fraud Database.

Civil Service Commission

If youre dissatisfied with the recruitment process and wish to make a complaint, please contact [email protected] with your concerns.

If you remain dissatisfied and wish to make a further complaint, please click on the following link to the Civil Service Commission complaints page Recruitment Complaints - Civil Service Commission

Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles can be found at https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/

Details of the Civil Service Nationality Rules are located at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

Candidates are subject to UK immigration requirements. For the most up-to-date information on the requirements of working in the UK, please go to the UK Visas and Immigration website at https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Ben Savage
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Apply Now

Refine Your Search

senior administrative assistant jobs in ferryhill, dur

Other jobs to consider

I want to receive the latest job alerts for senior administrative assistant in ferryhill, dur

Explore jobs in more locations

Details

Reference number

Salary

Job grade

Contract type

Business area

Type of role

Working pattern

Number of jobs available

Contents

Location

About the job

Job summary

Job description

Person specification

Behaviours

Benefits

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Selection process details

Security

Nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

Diversity and Inclusion

Apply and further information

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Recruitment team