Higher Business Services Administrator - Oldham, United Kingdom - Oldham Council

Oldham Council

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Oldham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Oldham Council
***Children and Young People

Children's Social Care

Ref:
G3/OL-81745

Contract:
Permanent

Salary:
£23,893 - £25,979 per annum

Hours:36.66 per week

Based:
Metropolitan Place, Hobson Street, Oldham,

Closing Date:
Sunday 25th February 2024

Shortlisting & Interview Dates:
TBC.

Job Description & Person

Role Overview:

This is an exciting time to join Children's Services in Oldham.

We're expanding the service to provide more high quality professional support to frontline children's social workers and managers to help families keep children safe.

If you're looking to make a real difference, Children's Services are looking for people like you, to provide effective and comprehensive higher level administrative support to our Children's Social Care Teams, ensuring service support needs are met efficiently and effectively.

If you join us, we will ensure that you have everything needed to do your job well and support you to progress in your career.

We have a loyal, supportive, and enthusiastic workforce who will give you a very warm welcome.

In this role you will:

Send out invitations, prepare for and minute social care meetings and distribute key documents to professionals and families.
Ensure information relevant to the service is recorded on systems accordingly.
Provide administrative support, working to competing and changing priorities and demands.
Provide an excellent level of customer service working as part of a team.
Use computer packages and internal systems and communicate with a variety of audiences.
Securely manage confidential and sensitive information.

We need you to have:

Experience in coordinating and minuting meetings.
Good organisational skills and be able to work on own initiative.
Experience of providing a high standard of customer service.
Experience of ordering goods and services and undertaking financial tasks.
Be a flexible team player, able to work at pace with excellent attention to detail.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulations.

Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve.

We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background.

We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

About Us:

Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough.

Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans.

We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do business and we share these borough wide with our residents, partners and businesses.

Internally we have translated these values into five cooperative behaviours which outline the priority areas of focus for all staff at all levels.

You can view the Values and Behaviours on our Greater. Jobs pages Working for Oldham

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