Administrative Assistant, The Boylin Group, Barnsley, S70 2HG
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £7.55 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 January 2026 |
| Location: | Barnsley, South Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnsley College |
| Job type: | Apprenticeship |
| Job reference: | TBG |
Summary
To complete Level 3 Business Administrative Apprenticeship.
As a local family owned and operated company we always try to anticipate, understand and facilitate our customer’s needs. Our philosophy has always been to stay close to our customers and ensure our company structure allows us to maintain our core principles.
You will have involvement in confidential and time sensitive materials, you will also have access to financial accounts and customer records.
The ability to effectively communicate via telephone, email and in person ensuring that all duties are completed accurately and delivered with high quality and in a timely manner.
Administrative assistant responsibilities:
• Organise and schedule appointments and meetings
• Maintain accurate customer and supplier records
• Produce and distribute correspondence email, letters, forms etc
• Assist in the preparation of regularly scheduled reports
• Develop and maintain a filing system
• Maintain computer and manual filing system
• Order office supplies
• Provide general support to the Sales & Purchase ledger teams
• Input, understand and translate information within our accounts software
• Provide general support to visitors
• Provide information by answering questions and requests
• Generate reports
• Handle multiple projects
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Carry out administrative duties
• Handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
• Take accurate minutes of meetings
• Coordinate office procedures
• Reply to email, telephone, or face to face inquiries
• Develop and update administrative systems to make them more efficient
• Resolve administrative problems
• Answer telephone calls and pass them on
• Manage staff appointments
• Clearly communicate with customers and suppliers
• Maintain up-to-date employee holiday records
• Coordinate repairs to office equipment
Required skills
• Reporting Skills
• Administrative Writing Skills
• Proficiency in software account systems
• Analysis
• Professionalism
• Problem Solving
• Supplier Management
• Verbal Communication
• Attention to Detail
• Accuracy
• Multitask
• Telephone Skills
• Teamwork
• Discretion and Judgment
• Patience
• Resourcefulness
• Anticipates Needs
• Emotional Intelligence
• Flexibility
• Editing and Proofreading
Hours 9-5 Monday to Thursday and 9-4 on a Friday.
We are an employer who wants to invest in the person by giving them an opportunity to develop and grow, we will give them full training / experience in all aspects of running a small business and they will have the opportunity to develop with the company - it just depends on their ambition.
As a local family owned and operated company we always try to anticipate, understand and facilitate our customer’s needs. Our philosophy has always been to stay close to our customers and ensure our company structure allows us to maintain our core principles.
You will have involvement in confidential and time sensitive materials, you will also have access to financial accounts and customer records.
The ability to effectively communicate via telephone, email and in person ensuring that all duties are completed accurately and delivered with high quality and in a timely manner.
Administrative assistant responsibilities:
• Organise and schedule appointments and meetings
• Maintain accurate customer and supplier records
• Produce and distribute correspondence email, letters, forms etc
• Assist in the preparation of regularly scheduled reports
• Develop and maintain a filing system
• Maintain computer and manual filing system
• Order office supplies
• Provide general support to the Sales & Purchase ledger teams
• Input, understand and translate information within our accounts software
• Provide general support to visitors
• Provide information by answering questions and requests
• Generate reports
• Handle multiple projects
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Carry out administrative duties
• Handle sensitive information in a confidential manner
• Take accurate minutes of meetings
• Coordinate office procedures
• Reply to email, telephone, or face to face inquiries
• Develop and update administrative systems to make them more efficient
• Resolve administrative problems
• Answer telephone calls and pass them on
• Manage staff appointments
• Clearly communicate with customers and suppliers
• Maintain up-to-date employee holiday records
• Coordinate repairs to office equipment
Required skills
• Reporting Skills
• Administrative Writing Skills
• Proficiency in software account systems
• Analysis
• Professionalism
• Problem Solving
• Supplier Management
• Verbal Communication
• Attention to Detail
• Accuracy
• Multitask
• Telephone Skills
• Teamwork
• Discretion and Judgment
• Patience
• Resourcefulness
• Anticipates Needs
• Emotional Intelligence
• Flexibility
• Editing and Proofreading
Hours 9-5 Monday to Thursday and 9-4 on a Friday.
We are an employer who wants to invest in the person by giving them an opportunity to develop and grow, we will give them full training / experience in all aspects of running a small business and they will have the opportunity to develop with the company - it just depends on their ambition.