Business Support Assistant - Council Headquarters - SBO10440


Company:	Scottish Borders Council
Salary:	£25,059.96 to £26,392.21 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Melrose, TD6 0SA
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	30 Sept 2026
Closing date:	14 Oct 2026

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Summary

Job Details

Grade: 4A

Hourly Rate: £13.73 - £14.46

Salary: £25059.96 - £26392.21 per annum

Hours: 35

Contract: Permanent

Role Purpose

The post is based within Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells. Business Support provide support to Environment & Infrastructure services.

As a Business Support Assistant within the Transactions Team, your duties will include:

• Processing Invoices

• Mail Duties - processing incoming mail

• Dealing with allocated tasks within the Transactions mailbox

• Use of SBC applications such as Business World, Intranet, One Drive and Microsoft packages

• Manipulating and extracting information within Microsoft Excel

• Communicating with Service Management Staff

• Use of bespoke IT applications

• Providing Good Customer service to internal and external clients

Scottish Borders Council – http://www.scotborders.gov.uk/

Essential

Good standard of general education.

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be made to Howl Pendragon at howl.pendragon@scotborders.gov.uk.

Scottish Borders Council is committed to improving the diversity of its workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from all minority groups and individuals who identify with one or more of the protected characteristics as defined by the Equality Act 2010. In particular from candidates who assess themselves as having a disability, under the Disability Confident Employer scheme this guarantees an interview to those individuals who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.

Scottish Borders Council is committed to providing support for Armed Forces Veterans. Showing its commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, the Council guarantees an interview to veterans who meet the essential criteria of the post. All appointments will be made on merit.

Employability Support –The Employability Service - For support on completing job applications, Scottish Borders residents can access free support from our specialist Employability Team. Please contact us via the switchboard 01835 824000 asking to be transferred to the Employability Service or email employability@scotborders.gov.uk

You can also find more about the support we have to offer, by visiting our website for more information https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/help-finding-job/support-employment

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