Office Services Apprentice

About this opportunity

Gunner Cooke LLP are looking for an Office Services Apprentice to join our busy team in Manchester. The successful candidate will play a critical role in the smooth running of the management of incoming and outgoing post, and other admin tasks.

A normal day would include:

• Dealing with incoming, outgoing post, printing, filing, booking couriers, logging post charges, managing hot desk bookings, binding, photocopying or scanning plus any other adhoc admin tasks where necessary to support the Office Services Team and its partners
• Supporting a central inbox for partner requests
• Answering telephone enquiries from partners
• Front of house support; meeting room set up, meeting and greeting clients, providing refreshments
• Ad-hoc administration tasks such as; delivering by hands and court documents and supporting the event and recruitment team with administration tasks

What you could go on to do
Our Office Services team can be a doorway to progression in other departments such as Partner Services, Compliance or Recruitment.

How you will be supported
Full training and support will be provided by The Growth Company to help you achieve your apprenticeship and reach your full potential in your role.
We undertake a full 3 month training programme for any new team members where progress will be reviewed regularly.

What will happen next
New applicants to The Growth Company who meet any basic entry requirements of the role will be contacted within two working days to be invited to meet a member of our team. You will then have the opportunity to find out:
• More about this vacancy and any others you are suitable for
• Any training you need to complete
• What the next steps will be

How you could get there
If you would be catching public transport for this role, visit the Journey Planner on www.tfgm.com to see how you would get there and how long it would take.

What you should have to apply

GCSE Maths & English grade A*-C/9-4
Recruitment arrangements

Personal Qualities

• Be able to maintain a positive and cheerful demeanor to building excellent working relationships with a wide variety of partners (300+)
• A calm, professional welcoming approach with the ability to work under pressure
• Be very people oriented – want to be helpful and sort things out for people.
• Highly client service oriented. Reliable, keeps commitments, pro-active
• Be a good team player demonstrating loyalty and commitment to the firm and your team

Skills

• Excellent listening skills with a proactive, problem-solving approach
• Client service oriented. Reliable, keeps commitments and pro-active
• Great attention to detail
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills and thrives on meeting exacting deadlines and delivering exceptional service to internal and external clients
• A calm, professional, welcoming approach
• Excellent listening skills with a proactive, problem-solving approach. to understanding individuals