The Role

Our Apprenticeship scheme provides a perfect way to earn a wage while you gain vital work experience and a nationally recognised qualification. You will be fully supported and mentored through your apprenticeship and be given protected time to complete your course work. When you’ve finished, we’ll help you to find a permanent role.

Apprenticeship Job Role:

To provide finance support to the Children’s Service finance team, and to the Education finance team. This will include data input to spreadsheets and databases, raising invoices for income due to the Council, and paying supplier and provider invoices. To also provide assistance to finance officers in correcting miscoded items of expenditure and income, creating and maintaining simple spreadsheets using available data, and in completing other routine and non-complex financial and administrative tasks.

Generic Duties and Responsibilities

• To contribute to the continuous improvement of the Boroughs of Wandsworth and Richmond services.

• To comply with relevant Codes of Practice, including the Code of Conduct, and policies concerning data protection and health and safety.

• To promote equality, diversity, and inclusion, maintaining an awareness of the equality and diversity protocol/policy and work to create and maintain a safe, supportive and welcoming environment where all people are treated with dignity and their identity and culture are valued and respected.

• To understand the both Council’s duties and responsibilities for safeguarding children, young people and adults as they apply to your role within the council. 
   
• The Shared Staffing Arrangement will keep its structures under continual review and as a result the post holder should expect to carry out any other reasonable duties within the overall function, commensurate with the level of the post.

Additional Information

This is a development opportunity for a bright individual with enthusiasm to take their first step on the career ladder. The successful candidate will be surrounded by experienced staff who will provide close support.

You will be working towards a Business Administration Level 3 qualification.

For more information please find attached to the bottom of this advert a full job description and person specification. We look forward to receiving your application.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be 16 or over
• Must have lived or worked in the EU for the last 3 years
• Must not be enrolled in full-time education or enrolled on any other funded courses

Interested in finding out more or looking to apply, please email your CV to Jackie Brown:
M: 075578636540
E:  jackie.brown@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Please do not apply through the website - we are only accepting CV's via email.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils