Business Support Assistant - Winsford, United Kingdom - Cheshire West and Chester Council

Cheshire West and Chester Council

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Winsford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time, permanent Business Support Assistant based within the business support team for a busy Children's Social Care department.

Organisation

Cheshire West and Chester Council

Location

Winsford

Job Category

Administration, Social Care

Grade

CWAC NJC
Grade 4

Salary Min
- £21,189 pro rata per annum

Salary Max
- £21,968 pro rata per annum

Hours per week

18.5

Weeks per year

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

19/03/2023

Ref No

W2522

Documents

RARG 6981 Business Support Assistant JD

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Cheshire West and Chester Council brings a fresh and energetic approach to providing top quality services for its many customers and communities.

West Cheshire is a place where everyone can Thrive - through our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Innovation, Value for Money and Empowerment.

An opportunity has arisen to join our Children's Social Care workforce which is passionate and committed to improving outcomes for children in our authority by providing a consistent, high-quality service to families together with the support from excellent leadership and management.

It is an exciting time to join our authority.

Our social care teams in Winsford provide essential safeguarding and support to children, young people and their families who live in the towns of Winsford and Northwich.

As a business support assistant you will provide a high-quality support offer to the Social Workers and managers in the Children in Need and Court Teams.

No two days are the same and a high level of good time management skills are required as well as a mature and resilient approach to the nature of the work.

We are very proud that Ofsted have rated us as one of the top performing Children's Services in the country; receiving overall "good" in our 2015 inspection and retaining "good" in our recent inspection in 2019.

Our recent inspection has acknowledged that our children benefit from a stable and resilient workforce and we are approved as a Partner in Practice with the Department of Education and have won "Overall council of the Year" and "Best Innovation" awards in 2018.

We are developing and embedding New Ways of Working with our service and multi-agency partners in order to ensure improved collaboration and one common approach to practice.

The contractual work location for this role is listed above however you may be required to work from a range of work locations or sites within the Borough and may also be required to work from home, depending on the needs of the service.

Cheshire West and Chester Council are committed to equality and diversity in employment. Please click the Equality Policy for more information.

Cheshire West and Chester Council have adopted a Local Living Wage for our employees which means that all employees will receive a minimum of £9.90 per hour for all contracted hours.