Birmingham Forward Steps is a citywide service delivered collaboratively by Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust working alongside, and other voluntary organisations, operated across 10 districts for children and their parents/ carers from shortly before birth up to the age of five. The service, commissioned by is designed to provide all families of pre-school children with accessible, community-based services in their own homes, GP surgeries, children's centres and a number of other community venues such as places of worship or libraries, with extra help available to those that need it.
We are seeking to recruit a full time - 36.25 hours per week – Business Manager to support the BFS Senior Management Team in terms of contract and data management and strategic planning andour Children's Centres/Family Hubs across Birmingham.
Please note that this is a locality based role, and on site presence will be required. It will not be possible to undertake this role on a virtual/remote basis.
The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating delivery of all business support/administrative/ data functions across the service and ensuring that consistent processes are in place for finance, data and health & safety in line with contractual and Barnardo's requirements. You will implement new, and revise existing, systems for financial and data management across the service as required and prepare financial information dealing with, and checking income and expenditure, including payroll.
Reporting to the Children's Services Manager for Operations, you will support with designated work in terms of planning, development, projects, and business support tasks across the localities.
The post holder will be required to compile reports as required for presentation both internally and externally and support and work with the Regional Finance Team, Health and Safety Officer and MIO to ensure that all compliance requirements and targets are met/exceeded. There will also be Line management responsibilities as designated and you will work with, and provide support to, the Children's Services Manager for Operations and Senior Management Team (SMT) to ensure all compliance requirements are met
It is essential that you have:
1. Excellent literacy and numeracy skills at a level that enables you to perform difficult calculations and produce reports
2. Substantial experience of using IT packages particularly MS applications
3. Experience of Health and Safety and premises/facilities management
4. Experience of financial administration
You must be:
5. Able to work independently without direct supervision, demonstrating initiative when required.
6. Able to delegate work effectively if applicable.
7. Able to maintain strict confidentiality and work within data protection guidelines.
8. Able to work effectively as a member of a team.
9. Able to work in a thorough and systematic way, paying attention to detail.
10. Able to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders.
11. Able to prioritise own workload and meet tight deadlines.
Experience of formally line managing staff is advantageous, as this role may include directly line managing staff.
This role will require you to travel independently across Birmingham therefore you must be flexible and adaptable, particularly in relation to working hours and location.
Please note due to the high volume of applications 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 . 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 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.
12. 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.
13. 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
14. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
15. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
16. Service related sick pay from day 1
17. 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
18. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
19. Cycle2work scheme
20. Interest free season ticket loans
21. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
22. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
23. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
24. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
25. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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