Apprentice Business Administrator - REF 14812
OPTIONS MORTGAGE CENTRE LIMITED
BLACKPOOL (FY1 3AD)
Closes on Wednesday 23 July 2025
Posted on 30 April 2025
Contents
Summary
Options Mortgage Centre in Blackpool are recruiting for an Apprentice Business Administrator. The successful candidate will work towards completing a Level 3 Business Administrator apprenticeship over the duration of 18 months.
- Wage
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£11,778 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Business administrator (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday- Friday 10am- 5pm
1 hour unpaid lunch
Flexible hours depending on availability
30 hours a week
- Start date
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Wednesday 30 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you’ll do at work
• General daily admin duties
• Taking and directing external & internal phone calls
• Sending & receiving emails
• Solicitor updates
• Invoicing
• Broker fee collection
• Meeting & greeting customers
• Online stationery orders
Where you’ll work
72-74 TOPPING STREET
BLACKPOOL
FY1 3AD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
NORTH LANCS. TRAINING GROUP CIC
Your training course
Business administrator (level 3)
Equal to A level
Course contents
- Skilled in the use of multiple IT packages and systems relevant to the organisation in order to: write letters or emails, create proposals, perform financial processes, record and analyse data. Examples include MS Office or equivalent packages. Able to choose the most appropriate IT solution to suit the business problem. Able to update and review databases, record information and produce data analysis where required.
- Produces accurate records and documents including: emails, letters, files, payments, reports and proposals. Makes recommendations for improvements and present solutions to management. Drafts correspondence, writes reports and able to review others' work. Maintains records and files, handles confidential information in compliance with the organisation's procedures. Coaches others in the processes required to complete these tasks.
- Exercises proactivity and good judgement. Makes effective decisions based on sound reasoning and is able to deal with challenges in a mature way. Seeks advice of more experienced team members when appropriate.
- Builds and maintains positive relationships within their own team and across the organisation. Demonstrates ability to influence and challenge appropriately. Becomes a role model to peers and team members, developing coaching skills as they gain area knowledge.
- Demonstrates good communication skills, whether face-to-face, on the telephone, in writing or on digital platforms. Uses the most appropriate channels to communicate effectively. Demonstrates agility and confidence in communications, carrying authority appropriately. Understands and applies social media solutions appropriately. Answers questions from inside and outside of the organisation, representing the organisation or department.
- Completes tasks to a high standard. Demonstrates the necessary level of expertise required to complete tasks and applies themself to continuously improve their work. Is able to review processes autonomously and make suggestions for improvements. Shares administrative best-practice across the organisation e.g. coaches others to perform tasks correctly. Applies problem-solving skills to resolve challenging or complex complaints and is a key point of contact for addressing issues.
- Takes responsibility for initiating and completing tasks, manages priorities and time in order to successfully meet deadlines. Positively manages the expectations of colleagues at all levels and sets a positive example for others in the workplace. Makes suggestions for improvements to working practice, showing understanding of implications beyond the immediate environment (e.g. impact on clients, suppliers, other parts of the organisation). Manages resources e.g. equipment or facilities. Organises meetings and events, takes minutes during meetings and creates action logs as appropriate. Takes responsibility for logistics e.g. travel and accommodation.
- Uses relevant project management principles and tools to scope, plan, monitor and report. Plans required resources to successfully deliver projects. Undertakes and leads projects as and when required.
Your training plan
- Level 3 Business Administrator
- Functional skills
- Work based learning
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- IT skills
- Customer care skills
- Reliable
About this company
Our founding Director, Richard Tingey set up as a broker back in February 1996. He formed Tingey & Thompson t/a Options Mortgage Centre in 1998 and the company joined the Tenet Network in the same year, moving to the Primis Network in February 2024. Pete Burdell our second director, joined the firm in 2017, and became a director in 2023. We became a limited company in 2023. We have traded from the same premises on Topping St, Blackpool since January 2000. We have a combined experience in years across all the team members of 250 years’ in financial services & across the team we convert on average up to 1,500 mortgage applications per annum alongside insurances to support the customer in the event of the unforeseen. Our head office on Topping Street Blackpool houses all our admin, two of our senior advisers and both directors. We have got more than four thousand live and returning regular clients.
After this apprenticeship
- Progression onto full time employment
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NORTH LANCS. TRAINING GROUP CIC
Recruitment
recruitment@nltg.co.uk
01254395355
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000317927.
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Closes on Wednesday 23 July 2025
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