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, 28th April 2024
Shortlisting & Interview Dates: TBC.
Job Description & Person Specification.doc
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.
For an informal discussion, please contact Janette.Molloy@oldham.gov.uk
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 co-ordinating 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.
If you would like support with this application, an interview or interested in looking at any courses that could help with this position please get in touch with Get Oldham Working - Get Oldham Working registration form - Oldham Council
NB. - Any candidate that meets the criteria of our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme and meets the essential criteria of the role, will be guaranteed the first stage of assessment (whether that is an interview or another assessment, as appropriate).
Our Guaranteed Assessment Scheme supports candidates with disabilities, carers, those who are aged 24 or under and have previously been in or currently in care, and those whose last long term substantive employer was the Armed Forces.
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.
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