Service Support Assistant - Exeter, United Kingdom - Devon County Council

Devon County Council

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Exeter, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Part Time 18.5 hours per week

Why work for Fostering?

Fostering Devon is a large, countywide service that provides foster care placements to children and young people in the care of the local authority.

We also recruit new foster carers, look to make foster placements permanent, provide training and support to our existing carers, undertake specialist parenting assessments, and two teams work directly with those children and young people in placement.

The teams care passionately about what they do, about the foster carers/supported lodgings hosts they support, and the difference a good placement can mean for children and young people in care.

In turn there is a supportive working environment and the commitment to continuous improvement means we don't stand still but work hard to do the best we can for our carers and the children of Devon.

The support we provide in Business Support is flexible and responsive to the goals of the Fostering Service and its individual teams.

We have twelve Service Support Assistants, some full time and some part time.

They take responsibility for supporting one or two teams, individually or with a colleague, but also cover each other as required.

Some tasks are common across teams and offices, others more specialised depending on the work of the team and the support they require.

We have five full time and part time Service Support Officers in Fostering, based in Exeter and work together to achieve whatever is required of the Fostering Service.

Three Service Support Officers work within the placements team ensuring the placements team run smoothly.

For the other two one role focuses on Panel which is largely regular and planned work, the second role focuses on operational service delivery and is very responsive.

The post-holders work closely with a good knowledge of each other's priorities, and compliment and cover each other well.

What types of tasks will you be doing as a Service Support Assistant?

Maintain the foster carer records (paper and electronic) on behalf of the social work team
Type staff supervision, update the supervision database and personnel files
Prepare and provide assistance to Fostering Managers with management information requirements
Support the Annual Review and Supervision process for foster carers
To respond to information sharing requests from various parties
Arrange conferences/training/support groups, liaise with trainers/speakers; issue certificates; maintain records
Organise and note task team meetings
General office duties, such as post, stock management and ordering etc
Happy to Talk Flexible Working-The Council offers flexible working arrangements in terms of when and where people work e.g. hybrid working, parttime, condensed hours etc.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English.
Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice.
For more information about Working for Devon please visit our Working for Devon page.
This role requires a DBS disclosure.