- Have experience of working within a service area with tightly defined procedures with a focus on accuracy and quality assurance.
- Have experience of monitoring key legal administrative processes to ensure the department remains complaint, identifying and escalating legal issues and/or risks as they arise.
- Have experience of working with confidential and sensitive information and adapting working practices appropriately.
- Have the ability to utilise technical knowledge to offer support and advice to members of the public and internal/external stakeholders.
- Have the ability to gain and maintain relevant technical knowledge of the day to day operational DoLs legal procedures, to include a sound understanding of the associated legal duties of all involved professionals and the end to end process, with an ability to scrutinise and challenge where appropriate.
- Demonstrate clear communication (verbal and written) and strong use of ICT (All Office applications).
- Have an understanding of, and commitment to Equal Opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
DOLS Support Officer - Leicestershire, United Kingdom - Leicestershire County Council
Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Room 700, Leicester Road, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker – at home and County Hall
Salary: £24,708 to £25,983 per annum(pro-rata for Part time post)
Working Hours: Full Time Post: 37 hours(Monday to Thursday – 08:30am – 5:00pm and Friday: 08:30am – 4:30pm)
Part Time Post: 18.5 hours
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Thursday 9th May 2024
Interview Date(s): w/c 20th May 2024
About the Role
2 x permanent full time roles and 1 x permanent part time role
Leicestershire County Council and Rutland County Council Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Service are looking to recruit to the role of DoLS Support Officer. We are looking for someone with an ability to work on their own as well as part of a team, with an eye for detail in a fast-paced role covering a range of tasks using Microsoft Office applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel and in-house system.
Under the supervision of the DoLS Support Co-ordinator, the DoLS Support Officer will support the delivery of a high performance; high quality service that ensures the department meets its legal procedural deadlines and responsibilities. To include supporting the work of the DoLS service and other multi-agency sub-groups such as the LIN, MCA Regional groups, including providing statistical and performance reports, arranging meetings and minute taking.
The successful applicant must be able to work under pressure to tight deadlines, be highly organised, resilient and have a high level of experience in working with Microsoft Office applications.
Please note there will be a Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word test after the interview
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
We'd also expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Sarah Clifford, DoLS Support Co-Ordinator
Telephone:
Email:
section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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