G1 Clerical Assistant

Application Instructions

Internal applicants MUST apply via Opportunity Marketplace. Please ensure you complete your SKILLS and QUALIFICATIONS via "Me" tab/tile on Fusion or by clicking on the application link in the section of the application form titled "REVIEW SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS".

Applications must be received by 19 March 2026 at 11:59pm.

Council Headquarters, Hamilton.

35 hours per week. 1 Permanent post and 1 fixed term for 9 months post.

Monday – Friday 8.45am – 4.45pm;
Friday 8.45am – 4.15pm.

£28,012 – £28,358.

An exciting opportunity to join or further develop your career within the South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Performance and Support Service Team, supporting the Multi‑Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) Service. Posts are based at Council Headquarters, Almada Street, Hamilton, ML3 0AA
. You will support colleagues providing frontline service to the community and perform a range of specialist and general clerical tasks, including a specialist minute‑taking service for MAPPA. You will use the ViSOR information system for updating, retrieving, and maintaining electronic records and filing systems. Meetings are principally held via Microsoft Teams, but you will be expected to travel to locations across the Resource, including Clydesdale, Cambuslang, East Kilbride, and Hamilton, to provide support and undertake minutes of meetings.

• Excellent IT skills & knowledge
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience in minute taking

• Experience in working with limited supervision

• Please study the Job Profile and provide examples of your work, or other activities which demonstrate your ability or aptitude to undertake the duties of the post.
• How would you establish relationships with managers and / or groups of staff? Also, please detail any experience you feel is relevant.
• Can you please detail how you would manage competing demands to ensure timescales and deadlines are met? Please provide an example if you feel this is relevant?
• Give an example of a time where you have had to make an important decision, what was it, how did you make it and did this have an impact on others?
• Can you demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills?
• Can you evidence that you have excellent IT skills and knowledge?
• Can you demonstrate excellent organisational skills?

Please submit any further information to support your application (excluding CV) under supporting documents.

Please Apply online. All correspondence will be via your email address. Preferred candidates identified after the selection event process may be asked to assist the recruitment team with recruitment checks. Failure to complete checks within a reasonable timescale may result in automatic withdrawal from this position.

If born outside the UK or lived/worked outside the UK for a continuous period of three months in the past 10 years, you must provide an Overseas Criminal Records Check translated into English. The check must confirm no history of or pending criminal record proceedings and be from police, judicial authority, government department or home embassy.

South Lanarkshire Council is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all community members. We are a Disability Confident Scheme Employer and guarantee interview to disabled applicants who meet essential criteria. We are committed to supporting armed forces, veterans and families under the Armed Forces Community Covenant; veterans & service leavers are guaranteed an interview if they meet essential criteria.

• Enrolment in award‑winning local government pension scheme
• Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme to increase pension pot
• Up to 33 days annual leave
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
• Occupational sick pay
• Family‑friendly policies – flexible working, leave, maternity/paternity leave, enhanced leave
• Employee Discounts, including at the cinema
• Range of benefits – Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program offering practical and emotional support

We do NOT accept CVs in place of the application form. All CV submissions will be disregarded.