Civic Offices (On-Site)
Temporary, Full time
Basic DBS check required
£25,652 to £27,363 per annum
37.0 hours per week
Salary: Band 5, £25,652 to £27,363 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term maternity cover up to twelve months
Hours: Full time (37 hours per week)
Closing date: Sunday 2 March 2025, 23:59
Interview date: Wednesday 12 March 2025
The Service:
The Building and Supporting Your Future Teams and Child Safety and Asylum Team provide social work support to our children in long-term care placements, unaccompanied minors and support to our care leavers. Staff in these teams are responsible for ensuring that our statutory responsibilities for looked after children and care leavers are properly met.
Your New Role:
You will provide high quality customer care and produce accurate and professional records, multi-tasking and working under pressure. You will handle email and telephone enquiries and all correspondence in confidence. You will book appointments and arrange meetings, taking minutes of more complex meetings, often of a sensitive and/or confidential nature. You will maintain files and documentation and carry out all necessary word processing, spreadsheets, database and presentation duties. You will facilitate the unaccompanied minor's administration process, administer the collection of statutory data and presentation of service performance information, and support preparations for Ofsted inspections. It is a very busy and a challenging role, for someone who enjoys working as part of a team and wants to do a worthwhile job. The post is based at the Civic Offices in Portsmouth initially, with possibility of some hybrid working later.
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, ideally in Children’s and/or Young People’s Services. You can take accurate, detailed minutes of complex meetings and have good IT, numeracy and literacy skills. You can demonstrate consistently high standards of customer care and customer service. You have good attention to detail, are accurate, and can work flexibly to meet the requirements of the team. You can prioritise your workload and have good organisational skills. You can demonstrate personal resilience and professionalism when exposed to explicit and emotionally challenging information, for example, in relation to child maltreatment and abuse.
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:
Tamasine Roux, Business Support Team Leader, Tamasine.roux@portsmouthcc.gov.uk, 023 92 834 455
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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Why come to live and work in Portsmouth?
Portsmouth is a great waterfront city and a vibrant place to live and work. It is an island city with an “inner city” feel, a seaside location packed with attractions and events, and the advantage of fantastic countryside on its doorstep. With fast road and rail links to London, Brighton and major airports, and ferry links to Europe, it is the perfect place to live and work. Portsmouth has a strong history of partnership working and has successfully integrated several local services.
What we can offer you:
Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.
Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council
Portsmouth Local Authority is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment to improve outcomes for children.
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