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Administrative Support Officer
Job description
Contract terms
Starting salary: SC6 (£35,520 – £36,585)
Work location: Alexandra House, 10 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TR
Hybrid working arrangement: 4 days site based, 1 day WFH
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Fixed term contract (Till June 2027)
Closing date: Sunday, 9th August 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/C 31st August 2026
About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
About the role
We’re seeking a proactive, committed, and detail-driven Administrative Support Officer to become a key part of our Council’s dynamic in-house Legal team. This pivotal role offers the opportunity to deliver high-quality operational support — working with IT systems, general admin, client liaison, overseeing payment processes, tracking and reporting on income and expenditure, and shaping efficient working practices that evolve with the needs of our service.
About the team
You’ll join a dedicated and collaborative Business Support team that plays a vital role in enabling Legal Services to deliver outstanding support to our clients. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of innovation, accuracy, and proactive problem-solving—where every team member contributes to driving service excellence.
You will work with this team generally with a focus on the work done by the Disrepair legal team, which will consist of dealing with payment requests, processing letters of claim, admin support to caseworkers and fee-earners, liaising with admins across the teams, managing, internal client cases, cases within the legal team as well as insourced cases and liaising with external firms regarding outsourced cases.
About you
You are an organised individual who enjoys managing client records and payments, updating systems and, striving for efficiencies and improvements while prioritising tasks to meet deadlines. Your attention to detail ensures accurate data entry and record keeping, and you proactively address issues as they arise. If you are a motivated individual with strong IT skills, and a drive to implement structure to thrive as part of a high-performing business support team, we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join our team and make a meaningful impact on our legal service department.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk
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- £35,520 - £36,585 per year