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Are you eager to land a brand new role? Our client, a busy local authority in Preston. Are looking for a Senior PA to join their organisation.

Job Role: Senior PA
Temporary or Permanent: Temp
Possible End Date: October 2025
Number of Positions: 1
Location: Preston
Office Based/Hybrid: Office Based
Rate of Pay: £18.26

Purpose:
The role of a Personal Assistant to Senior Members requires the post holder to work within departmental procedures and ensure service provision is delivered to an agreed quality standard or specification.
A Personal Assistant to Senior Members may deal with issues that will require a high level of initiative to recommend the best course of action. Communication skills are important as you will be expected to interact with internal and external 'customers' regularly as well as stakeholders from a wide range of organisations at the highest level.

Key Responsibilities:

• Select and comply with appropriate procedures to carry out tasks of an increasingly high-risk nature due to supporting Senior Members.
• Maintain and provide a support service for Senior Members daily schedule, including forward planning of workload, diary management and co-ordinating and collating all relevant paperwork, and ensuring appropriate space is maintained for breaks and responding to emails and urgent issues as they arise.
• Servicing of meetings, including preparation of meeting papers, obtaining and preparing briefing materials and presentations, and taking minutes/notes when requested/where necessary.
• Provide information and practical, routine advice to internal customers by interpreting established procedures and applying best practice.
• Keep up to date with changes in policy/legislation/contractual requirements to ensure service delivery is effective and complies with appropriate regulations, quality standards and service level agreements.
• Regularly communicate with other agencies and service providers to share information, build working relationship and to ensure joined up service provision.
• Ensuring the highest levels of confidentiality and impartiality when dealing with elected members from all parties. This includes when senior officers interact with elected members.

Job Requirements:

• Previous experience working within a local authority or a similar organisation.
• At least 2 years experience within a Senior PA role or equivalent.

Please be advised that only candidates that have the specific skills and experiences required for this role will be shortlisted and submitted to our client for review. 

How to Apply:

If you are interested in applying, please press the button below, send your CV to tareeq.smith@temptingrecruitment.co.uk or contact Tareeq on 020 3854 4911 to discuss further.

To explore other exciting opportunities or learn more about our recruitment process, please visit our website https://www.temptingrecruitment

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