Children and Young People
Children’s Social Care
Ref: G4/OL-91781
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: £26,421 - £28,770 per annum (Grade 4) pro rata
Hours: Part time 3 days per week
Based: Rock Street Centre, Rock Street, Oldham, OL1 3UJ
Closing date: Sunday 28th April 2024
Job Description and Person Specification.doc
Role overview
This is an exciting time to join Children’s Services in Oldham, we’re looking for a passionate and committed individual 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 Social Care Services are looking for people like you, to provide effective and comprehensive organisation and minute taking of our Child Protection Conferences, maintaining an accurate record of meetings to ensure that the children’s perspective is captured, along with the views of family members and other professionals.
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 Leeanne.hickey@oldham.gov.uk
In this role you will:
- Send out invitations and prepare for Child Protection Case Conferences.
- Distribute key documents to professionals and families.
- Minute taking in conferences.
- Work to competing and changing priorities and demands.
- Use computer packages and communicate with a variety of audiences.
- Securely manage confidential and sensitive information.
We need you to have:
- Experience in taking minutes.
- Good organisational skills and be able to work on own initiative.
- Work as part of a team within Business Services Safeguarding.
- Be 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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This opportunity is open to internal and external applicants and registered applications of the Get Oldham Working scheme. However, where a meaningful shortlist can be drawn from internal applications in the first instance, and residents of Oldham subsequently, these applicants shall be given priority access to the vacancy in line with the Council’s Recruitment and Selection Policy.
Please state if you are Registered to the Get Oldham Working scheme or an Oldham Resident in the Knowledge and Experience section of the application form.
Please note that should a vacancy that has been released for internal or external recruitment be deemed suitable for an at risk employee, it can be pulled back at any point up to the post being formally offered to an external candidate or an internal candidate that is not at risk of redundancy.