Apprentice Building Safety Administrator

18 Month Fixed Term Contract

Trafford Housing Trust (THT) is an independent housing company providing more than 9,000 quality affordable homes within the Trafford area of Manchester and across the North West. As a social enterprise, we are a ‘profit-for-purpose’ organisation, striving for a society transformed, free from poverty, inequality and injustice.

The Role

A vacancy has arisen in Property Services for an Apprentice Building Safety Administrator on a temporary basis.

The main duties of the role include to:

• Provide routine administrative support to the Building Safety team to support the delivery of efficient services.
• Support the effective coordination of services.
• Raise and complete purchase orders, ensuring timely processing of invoices.
• Ensure that all work is undertaken in line with regulatory requirements.
• Work within defined objectives, workload guidance and agreed service standards and seek readily available assistance for anything outside known procedures.
• Provide a high-quality service to the THT’s customers.
• Operate and maintain standard internal systems and procedures in line with agreed operating guidelines.
• Support data entry and the collation of relevant information to support team activity and ensure adheres to GDPR regulations.
• Provide standard guidance to internal colleagues and customers with defined area of expertise, escalating or passing on specialist enquiries as appropriate.
• Develop an awareness of other departments and service areas and communicate effectively with colleagues.

The Person:

It is essential that the successful candidate has the following:

• Good standard of education, including literacy and numeracy.  A minimum of 6 GCSE’s is essential. In addition to this a minimum of Grade C/Level 4 is required in English and Maths
• Good level of experience, knowledge and ability in the use of Microsoft Packages, such as Word and Excel
• Able to work well within a team
• Good communication skills both orally and written
• A self-starter with the ability to work on own initiative
• Willingness to learn and take on new skills
• Ability to prioritise and juggle competing demands

What Trafford Housing Trust can offer you:

Trafford Housing Trust encourages a healthy work/life balance with family friendly policies, and we offer an attractive benefits package for employees, as well as a competitive and transparent system of pay and reward. These benefits include:

• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Access to the Social Housing Defined Contribution pension scheme
• Free Trafford Leisure Gym Membership
• Access to Westfield Health Plan
• Annual leave allowance of 31 days per annum

Interested? If so, please complete your application. The closing date is the 12^th March 2021. Good luck!

Please note we reserve the right to bring the closing date forward if we receive sufficient applications.