Office Administrator / Receptionist - Maternity Cover

An exciting temporary role has been created to support the Administration and HR team during maternity leave. To provide a wide range of administrative activities in order to ensure efficient internal support services. This position has an immediate start date following successful interview and all relevant background checks have been completed.

About the company:
This company is an award-winning provider of patient administration systems and electronic patient records to healthcare providers in the public, independent and private sector across the UK and Ireland. Their solutions are used in more than 180 organisations by 30,000 system users to manage over 13 million patient records. They were recently named Best Performing Company for Government and Healthcare Systems, and Overall Winner at Megabuyte's industry awards for companies considered as emerging stars/scale-ups.

This is a collaborative, friendly and high performing organisation, where initiative is appreciated together with a "can do" attitude.

Essential to the role:
The successful candidate will work in support of the Office Administrator / Personal Assistant to COO and from time to time, you will assist the HR Co-ordinator with HR administration. You will need to demonstrate a successful track record in administrative support services across all business levels.

Tasks at a glance:
- Reception - greeting visitors, taking deliveries, answering and directing calls from the switchboard
- Administrative - stationery and refreshment orders, mail in and out & posting onto SharePoint, calling external parties to ensure receipt of invoices/receipts for services, assist in monthly expense and credit card reconciliation tasks
- Travel administration - assisting in arranging and booking accommodation and transportation and other logistical requirements, processing refunds and cancellations
- HR administration support - support the HR co-ordinator with general HR admin 'housekeeping'

Essential Skills:
- Maintain confidentiality at all times
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Ability to plan work and balance conflicting priorities in order to meet deadlines
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Attention to detail and maintain a high level of accuracy
- Highly organised and have ability to multi task
- Excellent phone manner
- Excellent time management

What they offer in return:
- Up to £20,000 pro rata
- 30 days' holiday inclusive of public holidays and, as a little Christmas treat, we close, giving you the 3 days in-between!
- Annual parking permit (Milton Keynes/expensed parking)
- Great central Milton Keynes location with superb public transport links
- Private Medical Insurance
- Gym Membership
- Contributory pension
- Free Fruit
- Lynda training account
- Continued learning and development

To apply for this role please send your CV.

Applicants must be available for interview on 21st or 23rd August with a view to start in September 2017.