Team Administrator - Newport, United Kingdom - Isle of Wight Council

Isle of Wight Council

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Newport, United Kingdom

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County Hall Office, Newport, Isle of Wight/Agile working

Grade 5, £24,293 to £24,702 per annum pro rata (actual salary £12,146.50 to £12,351.00)

Vacancy Reference:2023_650

Closing Date:11/12/2023

Contract Type:
Permanent

Hours:18.5 per week

We are seeking to recruit a Team Administrator to join our Children's Assessment and Safeguarding Team (CAST) dealing with a range of administration responsibilities.

You will be supporting our social work team in helping with administration tasks, organise diaries, visits, and recordings. We have a positive, supportive culture and working environment.

Key tasks include:

To support the team to improve social work practice and outcomes for children
To provide effective administrative support to the team, maintaining systems and processes, coordinating activity of Looked After Children Reviews and Child Protection Conferences and contribute to performance improvements.
To provide business administrative support during the team duty week once a month.
To provide substantial administrative support to the financial systems and processes within the teams

To include:

petty cash reconciliation; travel warrants; processing invoices in line with corporate systems and processes; administration of procurement card activity.

To work with and across teams to ensure sufficient cover is maintained for all areas of the directorate.
To provide a high speed, accurate word processing service to staff within the directorate to include but not exhaustive; letters; reports; minutes; templates; supervision notes etc.
To organise, attend and minute sensitive meetings containing complex and contended information to a high standard. Ensuring meetings have appropriate venue, equipment and refreshments and including followup work and relevant recording in ICS/Swift.
Recording information on the electronic social care client record (Swift/ICS) and related databases; to include scanning of records using the ESCR; update of databases held in the team to support performance management; following the business rules and training provided.

Ofsted have rated us as a GOOD children's social care across all areas following our last inspection published in 2019.

Ofsted found that:

'Children's lived experience is at the centre of social work practice on the Island.'

'Aspirational and highly competent leaders have a clear and shared vision for children's services.'

So, as an experienced business administrator, will you be part of a team that supports families with trust and respect?

If yes, then please get in touch.

For further information or an informal discussion please contact

or by calling on
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_When you join #TeamIWC you'll receive our staff benefits package, including:_

_ __-_ Annual leave entitlement of 32 days p/a PLUS public holidays_
- _ Local Government pension scheme_
- _ Discounted Solent ferry travel_
- _ Island bus network discount_
- _ Cycle to work scheme_
- _ Staff parking permit scheme_
- _ Discounted island sports & leisure gym membership_
- _ National and local discounts & benefits schemes_

A relocation scheme of up to £8,000 may be available to new employees _specifically relocating to the Isle of Wight to take up a role with us_. _If you choose to commute to the Isle of Wight daily, you may be eligible get your travel costs reimbursed. _Further details are available upon request._
The Isle of Wight Council protects its employees from discrimination and this is supported by the _Unacceptable Behaviour Policy_, _Employee Code of Conduct_ and _Behaviours Framework_. We actively promote the diversity of our workforce and we provide flexible working options (where appropriate) to support the different needs of our employees._
This council and its schools recruit according to the council's Recruitment, Policy and Procedure and are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment._
This role falls within the strategic partnership between the Isle of Wight Council and Hampshire County Council. The employer will be the Isle of Wight Council and employment is on Isle of Wight terms and conditions. Hampshire County Council has delivered, on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council, all of its children's services functions and will continue to do so until 2023. The original fiveyear partnership arrangement under direction of the Secretary of State finished in 2018 but has been extended voluntarily by both local authorities for a further five years._
The management reporting line for this role is ultimately through Hampshire County Council Children's Services Director/Assistant Director and managers who take operational responsibility for children's services._

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Closing Date:11 December 2023***
Interview Date:14 December 2023