About the role
Join Our Team: Coroner Service Administrator Opportunities
We are looking to appoint three dedicated Administrators to the Coroners Service. If you are organised, efficient, and committed to supporting your community during sensitive times, we encourage you to apply.
As a Coroner Service Administrator, you will play a crucial role in the smooth operation of the Coroner’s office, providing essential administrative support for inquests and related proceedings. This position is ideal for individuals who combine strong organisational skills with empathy, assisting the Coroner, Coroner’s officers, and bereaved families.
We seek candidates who consistently deliver high standards of customer service, offer compassionate support to families, and collaborate effectively with external agencies. professionalism, reliability, and a respectful approach are vital for success in this role.
The successful applicant will demonstrate:
- An organised and efficient approach to work
- The ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
Key Responsibilities:
- Administrative Support: Manage general office tasks, including document management, record-keeping, and handling sensitive information with discretion.
- Email Processing: Monitor and respond to emails received by the service.
- Court Usher Duties: Support inquest hearings, including ushering duties at Lawrence Court and Vantage House in Huntingdon, assisting proceedings, attendees, and coroners.
- Liaison: Serve as a point of contact for bereaved families, external agencies, and partner organisations, providing information as needed.
For further information or to discuss this opportunity, please contact Rachel Lovelidge at Rachel.lovelidge@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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