Somerstown Family Hub, Portsmouth (On-Site)
Permanent, Part time
Basic DBS check required
£15,391 to £16,417 per annum pro-rata for part time (£25,652 to £27,363 FTE)
22.2 hours per week
Salary: Band 5, £15,391 to £16,417 per annum pro-rata for part time (£25,652 to £27,363 FTE)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time (22.2 hours per week, worked three days per week 8.30am to 4.30pm - exact days can be discussed at interview)
Closing date: Sunday 23 February 2025, 23:59
Interview date: Monday 3 March 2025
The Service:
The Early Help and Prevention Service in Portsmouth provides extra practical help with families early on, to stop problems getting worse. The Young Carers project gives Young Carers a break from their caring role, a chance to leave their problems behind and just have time to act like a Young Person and have fun.
Your New Role:
You will provide high quality administrative support to the Young Carers team in the Somerstown Family Hub, playing a vital role in the administration and smooth-running of business processes and responding flexibly in order in support of the service priorities. You will organise, plan and prepare for meetings, including booking venues, producing materials and ensuring adequate facilities. You will take minutes, deal with enquiries, place orders and deal with invoices. You will draft and deal with correspondence, enter data into systems, and carry out all necessary word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation duties. The role is mostly office-based, with infrequent opportunities for hybrid working.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
What you'll need to succeed:
You have experience of working in an administrative role within a busy office environment and ideally, experience of working in Children’s and/or Young People’s Services. You can consider approaches to standard tasks in a creative, ‘future-thinking and forward-looking’ way. You can take accurate and detailed minutes of complex meetings with confidential and sensitive information. You are proficient in Microsoft Office and have excellent numeracy and literacy skills, excellent communication skills, and experience of budgetary monitoring. You have a customer-focus (internal and external) and can demonstrate consistently high standards of customer care and customer service. You have a self-motivated, proactive attitude to work, with experience of working autonomously and flexibly.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
Additional Information:
The full job profile is attached below.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Cheryl Ward, Business Support Supervisor, Cheryl.ward@portsmouthcc.gov.uk, 023 92 688 972
A commitment to our values:
We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.
Application process:
How to complete your application: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/how-to-apply/
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