About Inverclyde Intensive Family Support Service
This is a family outreach service, working alongside families, communities, and partners, offering caring and responsive support to children, young people and families. Aberlour Inverclyde Intensive Family Support Service delivers the support families need, when they need it, every day of the year. The aim of the service is to ensure that children and young people can continue to flourish at home, at school and in their local community.
Working with Social Work Services, this innovative and creative service focuses on supporting vulnerable and/or care experienced children and young people aged 0 – 25 years in a variety of settings including in their families’ homes, foster carers, kinship carers and residential settings to help them thrive in their homes, schools and local communities.
Our service works with children, young people and their families to enhance relationships, build on existing strengths and interests, help build confidence and encourage new community connections. Our aim is to help all families feel safe, confident, capable, and included. Our approach has been developed through consultation with families and partners.
What we are looking for....
As the Service Administrator you will providing comprehensive day to day administrative support for the service. The hours of work for this post are 16 hours per week to be worked during normal office hours of 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Your working hours can be discussed at interview.
You should be organised, used to working in a busy office environment and possess the skills to deliver a full administration service including reception duties, co-ordinating meetings, mail and maintaining manual and electronic storage and retrieval systems. You will also coordinate building and equipment needs as required in consultation with your manager.
An important part of the role is to provide financial administration for the service, supported by the Service Manager. You must be able to work with high levels of accuracy in recording and inputting data and in providing regular management information, in an agreed format and also responding to ad hoc requests as required.
You will be proficient in using Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Excel, Outlook etc to enable you to support the production of a range of reports. As you will often be the first point of contact within the service for a range of social care, education and other professionals you will need to have strong verbal communication skills.
At Aberlour we want to make sure every child, and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. To have a look at our values to understand more about what we are looking for from our employees click here.
What we offer...
As well as a supportive team and excellent training opportunities, we want all our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, an excellent employer pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts across various retailers. Find out more about our Employee Benefits and our commitment to Equality and Diversity here.
How to Apply
Please go to our website where you can apply online. If you have any queries please e-mail: Applications are welcome from diverse ethnic minority and cultural communities and under-represented faith and religious groups.
Aberlour is committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our service users and uses a thorough and rigorous recruitment and selection process including PVG Scheme checks to ensure this commitment is not compromised.
Applications to be returned by: midnight on Sunday, 2nd November.
Interviews are expected to be held: Interviews will either be held on week beginning 10th November