Children'sServicesAdministrator Essex (Hybrid)
Permanent - Part Time | 18 Hours per Week | Salary: £25,401 FTE (£12,612.91 pro rata)
PLEASE NOTE. APPLICANTS MUST RESIDE IN ESSEX, HOLD A VALID DRIVING LICENCE, AND HAVE A CAR FOR WEEKLY TRAVEL ACROSS THE COUNTY.
Barnardo's is offering an exciting opportunity to join the Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Services (ECFWS) as a Children's Services Administrator.
We're looking for an experienced Administrator to provide flexible, proactive support for our Children's Services team. In this varied role, you will maintain business and training processes, whilstworking alongside service leads to manage communications, coordinate meetings and oversee document management.
Key Responsibilities:
Coordinateserviceandsubcontractormeetings, including scheduling, preparing agendas,distributing papers, and taking accurate minuteswithclear actions (in-person or via Teams)
Manage and arrangemandatorytraining for Barnardo's colleagues, ensuring compliance and providing regular updates toserviceleads
Liaise across teams tosupportquality andcompetency compliance
Leadinternalcommunicationswithin theservice
Update FEEE2 (full training provided) eligibility and assign caseloads using monthly ECC reports on SystmOne
Produce regular FEEE2 reports fromservice user records and ECC data
Maintainserviceassets and resources, including IT equipment, staff contact lists, and trainingdocumentation
Applicants must demonstrate how they meet the ESSENTIAL CRITERIA below when completing theirapplication.
Essential Criteria:
Proven administrative experience, ideally within the charity or healthcare sector
Excellent organisation and time keeping skills with a focus on quality and accuracy
Experience supporting meetings, inc. scheduling meetings and taking comprehensive minutes
Experience managing a shared mailbox, and providing administrative support
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Ability to work on own initiative, and with minimal supervision to achieve deadlines
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate and collaborate across teams
Desirable Criteria:
Experience of working independently and remotely as part of a wide-spread team
Strong working knowledge of Excel; specifically in using formulas and conditional formatting to manage and report on data
Good working knowledge of SharePoint
Good working knowledge of SystmOne
If this sounds like the right fit for you, we'd love to hear from you!
Please note due to the high volume ofapplications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's? values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our? People & Culture ?Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
Service related sick pay from day 1
Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
Cycle2work scheme
Interest free season ticket loans
Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
20% discount at Barnardo's stores
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
*T&C's apply based on contract
About Barnardo's We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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