About us
The Harm Outside the Home Team within Children's Social Care have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced admin/business support officer or project assistant wanting to expand their knowledge and experiences. We are offering a permanent Project Officer role, with an opportunity to develop systems and processes that will support the team's performance.
The role
Providing a professional, high quality administrative/business support service within the Harm Outside the Home Team. This will include support for of a range of strategic and operational meetings across the council relating to contextual safeguarding and children at risk of exploitation.
We need you to collate, analyse and present information and data in various formats to support the Harm Outside the Home Lead in evidencing the Team's performance and in meeting key performance indicators and service priorities.
You will work as a key part of the team, using initiative and problem-solving to support the service to achieve its objectives, including the taking of formal minutes or less formal notes of meetings where required.
As this is a brand new post, it will be an opportunity for the successful candidate to put their own stamp on the role and to help develop new processes and ways of working for the team that improve and demonstrate outcomes for the very valuable and important work they do.
Please see the job description for more detail on the role and the person specification to see if your skills and experience match what the role requires.
What's needed?
We are looking for someone with the following experience and qualities:
* Excellent IT skills with experience in a range of software plus basic data management/analysis
* Experience of taking formal minutes and recording information and actions accurately
* Excellent team-working skills
* Ability to multi-task and prioritise and organise workload despite interruptions
* High-level communication skills with a confidence to communicate with colleagues and partners at all levels
* Flexible and able to work under pressure
* Committed to improving outcomes for children & families
Benefits
As well as a competitive salary, working for us means you get:
* 26 days annual holiday - raising to 31 after 5 years of service (pro-rata)
* Access to our attractive and competitive benefits package
* Access to our Health & Wellbeing Programme
Key Dates & Further Information
If you have any further questions or for an informal chat then please contact (via email in the first instance) – Jay Halliwell, Harm Outside the Home Lead.
The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.
Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer