Winchcombe Place is a brand new 80 bed care home opening up in Shaw, Newbury on April 14th 2014. It has a Cinema, Hair & Beauty Salon and coffee shop, the latter two are open to the public.I am the Business Administrator for the home and will look after both staff and residents. I am really looking forward to the open days and welcoming people to the home.

This is a temporary role helping managing the Head Office. I am currently organizing an office move for 250 people. I am also devising an induction process to introduce. I have also organized 1st Aid training, an internal phone list from several sites around the UK and am looking at mobile phone and stationery costs.

Commissioning a lovely new care home again, fun times ahead!

This has been an extremely busy multi-tasking role which has included looking after 100+ staff. I also provided admin support for the Operations Manager and 11 other Managers as and when required. * All aspects of recruiting staff from getting in CV’s through to the Induction of a new member of staff. * Monthly wages, expenses & petty cash, manage finances relating to office facilities, purchasing etc * Logging holidays & absences * Policies & Procedures, Disciplines & Grievances * Conduct and implement Redundancy Process * Training * Organize & minute all meetings * Any flights, travel or hotel bookings required * Contracts i.e. cleaning, washroom, water, security etc. * Maintain office stock levels and passing invoices for payment. * Health & Safety issues, responsible for First Aiders & Fire Wardens * Company standards on behavior & dress. * Ensuring the office is in a general state of tidiness and repair. * Organsing and supervising all internal office reorganizations. * Greeting all visitors to the company offices. * Organize all refreshments and lunches. * Employee Relations * Dealing with both internal & external post * Catering for all meetings & staff requirements Reason for Leaving: Redundancy

HR Administration * Staff Files, contracts and handbooks * Ensuring new employment laws are complied with. * Enquiries from staff on their holiday pay and sick leave. * Keeping all staff records up dated. * Ensuring competitive quotes for stationery purchases and weekly ordering of items required. * PA duties for the Chairman and Financial Director. * Solving any queries from the five remote units * Answering all incoming telephone calls and dealing with the queries or transferring these to the appropriate person. * Greeting any visitors that came to the company offices. * Ensuring all post promptly despatched. * Arranging couriers when necessary and dealing with travel & hotel arrangements for staff. . Accounts * Inputting invoices on to Sun accounts system * Requesting copy invoices to ensure records matched supplier statements * Answering telephone enquiries with reference to purchase ledger * Checking delivery notes against invoices and requesting credit notes where applicable. * Filing of invoices and supplier statements * Checking all utility bills and suppliers ensuring that pricing was at the keenest rates possible – creating a system whereby meter readings were regularly recorded against the bills to prevent over/under estimations. * Creating a filing system for all capital expenditure projects which included a master file for all invoices. * In the absence of the Office Manager dealing with banking, cash flow queries, Chaps requests * Input the weekly payroll information using Ciber Payroll systemReason for Leaving: Redundancy

I was responsible for all aspects of management of the office. Communicating issues concerning staff, temporary contractors and health and safety issues to the Management Board Meeting (held monthly). Urgent issues were referred to my line manager - the Director of Operations as and when required. The reporting structure meant attending in house monthly and weekly meetings. Responsible for HR, being the contact point for all administrative staff, recruiting, maintaining attendance records, appraisals, company standards on dress and behaviour and managing disciplinary procedures. Organising and supervising all internal office reorganisations and previously managing a move to new office premises Manage finances relating to office facilities, purchasing, negotiating annual contracts monitoring service levels; maintain office stock and passing invoices for payment. I was also responsible for the collating of all timesheets and allocating the hours to each account in readiness for invoicing to the major clients.

* Responsible for all facilities issues. * Assisting in move of 200+ staff to new building * Maintaining staff attendance records * Inductions for new staff members * Responsible for the day to day security operation - using an in-house PC based system * Health & Safety administration - included presenting H&S and Facilities Induction’s to all new starters on first day and workstation assessments * Dealt with multi functional agencies for cleaning, gardening, M&E engineers. Checking invoices against contractual agreements and costs. Reason for Leaving: Redundancy