Layout Designer to join a busy and personable team, this position is paying an annual salary £30,000 - £40,000 DOE. Working hours are Monday - Friday 9am - 6:00pm with 1 Hybrid working day.

Duties:

• Working towards an urban design masterplan project
• Research into relevant technical urban design and planning issues
• Using InDesign and Illustrator to produce brochures and documents
• Creating portfolios of design work
• Preparing testing layouts, plans and drawings, together with design documents

Benefits:

• £30,000 - £40,000 DOE
• 23 days holiday + Christmas shut down + 8 bank holiday
• Pension
• Healthcare Cover Scheme
• Professional Subscription Fees

Experience required:

• Leadership skills and a willingness to take on responsibility
• Good communication skills, as interaction with other professionals, authorities and clients
• Must be conversant with all packages in Microsoft Office & AutoCAD, Adobe
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of a team;
• A logical and practical approach as well as an ability to solve problem;
• Time management and ability to prioritise workloads

Please bear in mind that you may not hear from us straight away. Due to the high level of applications, we receive every day, we can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position. If you would like to be considered for similar and future positions, or for a complete listing of all our current vacancies, please visit our website.

An independent agency with offices in Reading, Cardiff and Billericay. Since we opened our doors in 2005 we have created a fantastic team and a great working environment. We are now seeking an experienced consultant who wants to work in a well established team and would welcome work/life balance. We are an office based team.

We are seeking a consultant with 360 experience who is keen to build their own client base and would enjoy the autonomy that working for an independent business offers.

Your role:

• Build and maintain a network of candidates
• Identify and understand client needs to provide tailored recruitment solutions
• Conduct thorough candidate screenings and interviews
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients to ensure satisfaction and repeat business
• Manage the recruitment process from initial contact to placement, ensuring a seamless experience for candidates and clients alike.

The person:

• Proven track record in recruitment with a minimum of 3 years experience
• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities
• Excellent IT skills
• Excellent business development skills
• Highly self motivated

Our Reading office operates hours Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm. We offer 25 days holiday, a highly competitive commission structure, with monthly and quarterly bonus.

Our fantastic client in Cardiff, an award winning Training Provider, are seeking an Assessor to join them within their Essential Skills pathway division.

You will support qualification attainment to Essential Skills learners across a broad range of settings including online, workplace and classroom based learning.

Candidates will need to have experience in delivering, assessing, or supporting apprenticeships in a workplace setting.

Our client offer a superb working culture and industry leading benefits.

What you'll be doing:

• Ensure the highest training standards by adapting to learner needs.
• Cover a regional area and travel to learners' workplaces for assessments.
• Complete Individual Learning Plans and outline personalised learning pathways.
• Reference and evaluate evidence collected in the workplace to meet key skill requirements.
• Maintain accurate records of learner attendance and guided contact hours, ensuring compliance with audit requirements.
• Contribute to the planning, monitoring, and achievement of set performance targets.
• Arrange additional training through day release and provide in-house training support as needed.
• Keep detailed records of clients' achievements to meet the performance criteria established by relevant awarding bodies.

What we're looking for:

• Experience in delivering, assessing, or supporting apprenticeships in a workplace setting.
• Strong industry experience in Essential Skills with the ability to apply this knowledge in a learning and development context.
• Full driving license and access to a vehicle is essential.
• Willingness to undergo a DBS check (cost covered by the company) and EWC registration.

Salary & Benefits:

Salary will be between £24,000 - £28,000 dependant on experience
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am - 4:30pm, hybrid working (office, home and customer site)

• 30 days holiday per year plus bank! (38 days per year!)
• Company pension
• Annual bonus scheme
• Life assurance
• Medicash healthcare scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Fully paid expenses and mileage
• Cycle to work scheme
• Personal development and career mapping

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing company that offer strong career progression and development and a fantastic working environment.

Our fantastic client in Cardiff, an award winning Training Provider, are seeking an Qualified Assessor to join them within their Business & Administration pathway division.

You will support qualification attainment to Business, Administration, Customer Service and Management learners across a broad range of settings including online, workplace and classroom based learning.

Candidates will need to have relevant training experience and a recognised teaching or assessing qualification (e.g., A1 Assessor Award, TAQA, CAVA, or equivalent).

Our client offer a super working culture and industry leading benefits.

What you'll be doing:

• Ensure the highest training standards by adapting to learner needs.
• Cover a regional area and travel to learners' workplaces for assessments.
• Complete Individual Learning Plans and outline personalised learning pathways.
• Reference and evaluate evidence collected in the workplace to meet key skill requirements.
• Maintain accurate records of learner attendance and guided contact hours, ensuring compliance with audit requirements.
• Contribute to the planning, monitoring, and achievement of set performance targets.
• Arrange additional training through day release and provide in-house training support as needed.
• Keep detailed records of clients' achievements to meet the performance criteria established by relevant awarding bodies.

What we're looking for:

• Relevant training experience and a recognised teaching or assessing qualification (e.g., A1 Assessor Award, TAQA, CAVA, or equivalent).
• Experience in delivering, assessing, or supporting apprenticeships in a workplace setting.
• Strong industry experience and expertise in Business Administration, Customer Service, or Management, with the ability to apply this knowledge in a learning and development context.
• Full driving license and access to a vehicle is essential
• Willingness to undergo a DBS check (cost covered by the company) and EWC registration.

Salary & Benefits:

Salary will be between £25,000 - £29,000 dependant on experience
Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am - 4:30pm, hybrid working (office, home and customer site)

• 30 days holiday per year plus bank! (38 days per year!)
• Company pension
• Annual bonus scheme
• Life assurance
• Medicash healthcare scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Fully paid expenses and mileage
• Cycle to work scheme
• Personal development and career mapping

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing company that offer strong career progression and development and a fantastic working environment.

An excellent opportunity has arisen to work for our established client in Wallingford as a Sales Administrator on a 6-month, fixed term contract.

As the Sales Administrator, you will be responsible for:
* Managing and maintaining sales reports.
* Supporting the marketing team with website updates.
* Ensuring all documents are accurate.
* Assist in organising events.
* Processing expenses and mileage claims.
* Coordinate IT, phone and office supplies.
* Providing front desk support when required.

The successful Sales Administrator, will have the following related skills / experience:
* Strong administration experience.
* Highly organised with excellent communication skills.
* Good IT skills, proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Outlook) and CRM systems.

For more information, please contact Sharon Tanner or Chloe Bennett on 0118 956 7064

Our Reading client is recruiting for a Team Administrator to join their team to join their team. This role will be a contract for 6 months but could go longer term for the right candidate. Hybrid working available with a minimum of 2 days in the office per week.

You must be free to start immediately.

As the Team Administrator, you will be responsible for:
* Tracing pension members who have lost contact with pensions they have accrued through previous work.
* Utilising the resources to track people like social media, specialist ancestry sites and purpose-made tracing tools.
* Using an analytical approach and excellent research skills, as well as a genuine wish to achieve the best possible result.
* General data entry and administration

The successful Team Administrator will have the following related skills / experience:
* Good admin/data entry skills.
* Ability to be resourceful and use your initiative
* Highly organised and motivated
* The successful candidate will appreciate the vital importance of Data Protection
* Highly self-motivated
* Excellent communicator (written and spoken) and have an exceptional eye for detail.
* Previous admin experience in a detail driven role is required to be successful in this position

For more information, please contact Sharon Tanner or Chloe Bennett on 0118 956 7064

Our outstanding and successful client, a national IT Service Provider who work with some of the biggest household names in the UK are looking to recruit an experienced IT Field Technician to join them on a permanent basis.

You will be based in the Liverpool area, and will attend customer sites to diagnose and resolve technical IT issues relating to customers on-site technology, including EPOS, business systems, and back office servers.

You'll be the bridge between tech issues and business success - making a tangible difference for customers!

Location: Covering the Liverpool region (on-site visits + remote reporting)
Travel: Significant regional travel with some overnight stays (full expenses and accommodation provided)
Company Van: Van provided
Hours: Monday to Friday (core hours will be 9am-5:30pm - but these may vary depending on demand)

Salary & Benefits: Salary will be £26,300 which includes base and standard overtime. You will earn additional overtime paid at x1.5 & x2.

You will receive excellent benefits package including 23 days holiday per annum + bank, private healthcare provided through BUPA, death in service (4 x salary), group income protection, company pension.

What You'll Do:

• Visit customer sites to diagnose & resolve EPOS, network, and business system issues
• Capture photographic evidence and compile clear, actionable reports
• Coordinate fixes - liaise with management, IT providers & third parties
• Mediate IT solutions between franchisees, service desks, and IT contractors
• Ensure accurate stock tracking & report completion for smooth operations
• Keep stakeholders informed & updated at all times

What we're looking for:

• Excellent experience in IT maintenance and fault diagnosis, including hardware, networks, and systems
• Excellent Customer Service skills and the ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers, stakeholders and third parties.
• High degree of flexibility in terms of hours of work and location.
• High level of health, safety and environmental compliance
• Full clean driving license.
• Clean DBS required.

Reading centre - no parking

Working day hours: 3 full days a week must include Thursday and Friday - 8.30-5pm or 9-5.30pm

Our client is a highly successful accountancy firm and they are now seeking an experienced administrator to join their small but busy team. This role sits within their global admin team and you can expect to support colleagues across the firm. We are seeking someone who prides themselves in their organisational skills and their attention to detail. This is a really varied role that requires a strong team player with a flexible attitude.

The role:

• Undertaking Reception duties, meet and greet as required;
• To check meeting rooms for tidiness / setting up for meetings
• Ordering and maintaining adequate stocks of stationery
• Create/amend letters and other documents
• Ordering refreshment supplies and maintaining a clean and organised kitchen
• Making refreshments/ordering lunch for meetings as required
• Supporting Directors and Partners when required
• Providing admin support to various service lines on an ad hoc basis
• Tasks such as billing, processing post, booking car parking / meeting rooms
• Keeping the breakout and kitchen areas tidy/maintained

The person:

• Collaborative team player
• Positive and flexible attitude
• Strong MS office skills
• Typing skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Highly organised
• Proactive and solution focused

Benefits:

• Life assurance at 2 x salary
• Income protection insurance (IPI) which is payable after 13 weeks of sick leave @ 75% salary (less an amount for any deemed state benefits as determined by the insurer) pro
• After 3 months you will be eligible to chose from a menu of benefits, which currently include:
• Pension - in line with current legislation you will be automatically enrolled after 3 months and you will pay 3% and the firm will pay 5% and your life assurance will increase to 4 x salary
• Critical illness cover
• Dental insurance
• Additional life assurance
• Childcare vouchers
• Purchase of additional holiday
• Retail vouchers
• Alongside the scheme there is unlimited access to a discount scheme, offering a wide variety of discounts across a whole range of products and services, including discounted gym membership rates
• Free flu jabs

Fully office based - no parking at the office

This is a wonderful opportunity to join our clients dedicated Mental Health Team based in Walsall. This is an entry level role that could suit someone with good typing skills and an interest in working in a legal environment. You will be joining an existing team of dedicated Secretarial Assistants providing support to the Lawyers who specialise in Court of Protection and Mental Health work, representing people who are subject to the Mental Health Act 1983 and those who are under Guardianship Orders, Community Treatment Orders and advising client with learning difficulties and autism. Our client is seeking a candidate with a genuine interest in working in this area of law and can demonstrate that on their application and CV.

You will need to enjoy a fast-paced environment, juggling multi priorities working for a dedicated team of Lawyers specialising in Court of Protection and Mental Health Law, with a proven track record of providing legal aid services to their clients.

Your role:

• Supporting the solicitors and team with general administration support
• Typing file and telephone notes
• Logging information on the secure portal
• Downloading notifications from the tribunal service
• Manage dates for tribunals and recording in the diaries
• Time recording to support the firm's billing processes,
• Typing documents, letters to clients, hospitals etc
• Dealing with telephone queries

As our ideal candidate you will have:

• Excellent computer literacy
• Fast accurate typing skills
• Highly organised to manage busy diaries for the team
• Confident to deal with clients and professionals by telephone
• Strong interest in providing a first-class service to their clients along with enthusiasm to promote and grow with the firm.

In return our client can offer:

• Competitive salary depending on experience
• A friend office
• Modern case management system
• Ongoing training in a supportive environment for career growth
• Employee benefits of a pension scheme, 28 days holiday, plus birthday and long service.

• Hybrid available
• CIPS 4 or above essential

This is an exciting role working for a highly successful healthcare company in Reading. Your role will be to ensure the profitability and quality of the outsourced contract and ensure contract renewals are managed efficiently. Our client is looking for an experienced manager how builds excellent stakeholder relationships and can drive collaborative change.

As the Procurement Operations Manager your tasks will be:

• Lead UK procurement of external service contracts and service parts for the business, including biomedical and endoscopy equipment.
• Support the Head of Procurement and Supply Chain to develop long-term supplier management strategies that balance the Group's drive to insource maintenance whilst securing value for money from OEMs.
• Support Head of Procurement and Supply Chain with capital procurement projects when required.
• Deploy good decision process and techniques to optimise profit and value and balance the risk from the external spend.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure procurement from external suppliers is profitable, resilient, sustainable and safe.
• Deliver quarterly reporting on category spend, profitability comparison and team savings.
• Support company bids and pricing exercises from a procurement perspective.
• Collaborate across Ergéa business areas to develop, implement and drive procurement and supply chain strategies for assigned projects.
• Develop and maintain key supplier framework agreements.
• Develop and manage clear, deliverable SLAs with our internal customers.
• Embed a culture of quality and continuous improvement within your team.
• Support the Head of Procurement to deliver the operations 3-year plan.
• Responsible for the management of a team (presently six).
• Budget of circa £8m for responsible categories.

The person:

• Minimum CIPS level 4
• Strong procurement background within an integrated supply chain, including service and material management. Ideally at least 5 years' experience.
• Experience in Cost Management, SRM and Performance Improvement.
• Proven ability to work successfully in a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment.
• Experience of negotiating and monitoring service contracts.
• Numerical, analytical & logical mind.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Intermediate Excel.
• Knowledge of biomedical and or endoscopy devices is desirable

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• After successfully completing 6-month probation period, enrolment into Death in Service scheme (4 x salary)
• Pension (enrolment after 3 months of employment)
• Perkbox - discounts/offers with various popular brands
• Cycle to work scheme (after 3 months of employment)
• Electric car scheme

As we are unable to advertise salary, please call Sharon Tanner on 01189567064 if you would like more information.