Digital Support Apprentice - QA : Job Details

Join the OCS Group working with the Scottish Police Authority. We are now looking for an eager candidate to join us as an apprentice. This isn’t just a job; it’s a chance to shape the spaces where people live, work, and play.

Salary: £15,704 per annum.

Location: Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 3SP

We’re looking for a Digital Support Apprentice.  Does this sound like you?

The Role / Duties:

• Be the go-to person: You’ll be the first point of contact for customers, handling inquiries in person, via email, and on the phone. Your role is crucial in ensuring smooth communication between clients, management, and the supply chain.
• Tech-savvy tasks: Get hands-on with our job booking system, Concept. You’ll log jobs, raise purchase orders, and become a superuser by the end of your apprenticeship.
• Problem-solving pro: Provide digital support to Accounts Payable, resolving supplier invoice queries and ensuring the invoicing process runs like clockwork.
• Project powerhouse: Support the project team through estimating and tender processes, helping to deliver maintenance projects across the estate.
• Efficiency expert: Work proactively to reduce the current level and aging of delegated contract’s work-in-progress (WIP) and chase supplier invoices to ensure timely invoicing.

What you'll bring to the table:

• PC skills – although these will be taught during your apprenticeship. 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. 
• Excellent communication skills.

Working week: 9am - 5:30pm, [1-hour lunch],Monday to Friday,37.5hrs a week.

Perks and Benefits:

• Work-life balance: Monday to Friday, no weekend work required.
• Healthy perks: Fresh fruit every day.
• Financial Security: Pension plan.
• Time off: Generous annual leave.

Future prospects:90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average.

Important information: This vocational apprenticeship comprehensively supports your specific job role with this particular employer. Throughout your learning journey, you are fully supported by your dedicated QA skills coach and your mentor at work. They ensure you settle in, help you develop all the skills you need to be successful in your job role and pass your assessments, and can provide one to one support.

Starting with insights into your current potential, they plan your growth in a programmatic way, close skills gaps with immersive training and ensure what you learn is applicable to what you do. They talk you through the specifics on the qualifications you gain and how they align in particular to your day to day role.

On completion, as well as the valuable work experience you have gained, you get a nationally recognised qualification at SCQF Level 6. 

If you are interested in starting your career and receiving a work based qualification at the same time, APPLY NOW!