Personal assistants (PAs), also known as executive secretaries, provide secretarial support for a senior manager and their department. They help to ease the manager’s workload by dealing with a range of administrative and secretarial tasks. Typical duties for a personal assistant might include: screening telephone calls and handling enquiries that do not need to be passed [...]
Pensions administrators deal with the administration involved in pension schemes and life insurance policies. They look after new and existing pension schemes and policies, and deal with enquiries from scheme members, financial advisers, employers and the Department of Work and Pensions. Their duties include: answering enquiries by telephone, in writing or by e-mail using a [...]
Payroll managers supervise the daily work of a payroll department or team, which is responsible for making sure that wages are paid correctly and on time. In smaller teams or companies, payroll managers may carry out general payroll administration duties with their team, such as: calculating and issuing pay by cash, cheque or electronic transfer deducting [...]
Payroll administrators, also known as payroll clerks, make sure that wages are paid correctly and on time. They can work for a company’s payroll or finance department, or for a payroll bureau that provides payroll services for several smaller companies. The work could involve: calculating and issuing pay by cash, cheque or electronic transfer deducting tax and [...]
Paralegals do legal work, but are not fully-qualified solicitors or barristers. They could work in many different kinds of organisation, such as: law firms, where they support solicitors and usually specialise in one area of law such as probate or family law the public and not-for-profit sector, such as in Citizens Advice Bureaux, charities or trade unions, where they [...]
One Member of Parliament (MP) represents each constituency or electoral area in the UK, serving in the House of Commons, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly or the European Parliament. MPs are elected by members of the public in each constituency. Most candidates for election are nominated by a political party although it is possible [...]
Medical secretaries give administrative and secretarial support to doctors, nurses, medical researchers and hospital administrators and managers. They can work in health centres, hospitals, medical schools or pharmaceutical companies. Depending on the setting, their duties and responsibilities may include: dealing with patients to make appointments updating patient records using a computer for typing correspondence or updating medical notes [...]
Meat inspectors, also known as meat hygiene inspectors, inspect and certify meat according to current meat hygiene laws. They may already have experience of working in the meat industry, perhaps in an abattoir or meat processing plant. Some inspectors work for the government’s Meat Hygiene Service, inspecting slaughterhouses, cutting plants and cold stores throughout the country. Other meat inspectors work [...]
Revenues and benefits officers work for local councils and deal with rent and council tax, or housing and council tax benefits. Revenues officers usually: calculate rents, council tax and business rates send bills and issue reminders collect and process payments deal with enquiries face-to-face or by letter or telephone keep accurate clerical and computerised records deal with legal [...]
Local government administrative assistants provide clerical support in local councils and deal with enquiries from members of the public. They may be known by a number of different job titles such as administrative officer, clerical officer, customer service assistant, or support officer. They can be employed in all departments in a local authority, such as housing, social services, [...]
