Team Administrator

We are looking to recruit an additional team administrator to support the Stroud Permanency Teams in Redwood House in Stroud. These teams work within Gloucestershire County Council's Children's Services, with a focus on Children in Care and Care Leavers. We have 4 Stroud Permanency Social Care Teams, comprising of Team Manager's, Social Workers and Leaving Care workers, who support children who enter care who can then transition into our Leaving Care Teams, on a journey towards independence. Your role would be to support the Stroud Leaving Care teams with a variety of administrative tasks, process financial documents to ensure children, young people and their families receive the necessary funding as required, whilst providing good customer service in person and on the telephone. Duties will include: -

• Providing a high-quality comprehensive administration support to the teams Dealing with telephone enquiries, taking messages and alerting social work staff
• Preparing documents using Microsoft Word
• Updating spreadsheets using Excel
• Booking meetings using Microsoft Teams and our internal room booking system
• Processing finance requests
• Uploading documents to our bespoke database Liquid Logic (training will be provided)
  
  We are looking for someone who would like to join our Stroud Permanency Children's Social Care teams, where the work is varied, and interesting, no two days are the same! We would like you to have excellent IT and communication skills and be able to demonstrate a flexible approach with an ability to manage your workload to meet deadlines. If you would enjoy providing high level admin support to our Permanency Social Care Teams, and you feel this is a role for you we look forward to hearing from you. Why are you perfect for this role and what will you bring to our team?, The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have a right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. / The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English. We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

This is a great time to join Gloucestershire County Council, as Children's Social Care is on an exciting journey, which focuses our approach into being more creative, strengths-based and person-centred, to ensure that we work together to 'Make a Difference' to our local communities. We are an agile working organisation with a combination of office-based working and working from home (essential equipment is provided). We place a high premium on diversity and inclusion, as well as on health and wellbeing and we offer a flexible working scheme which is based on business need. We offer Continued Professional Development and will support you to develop your skills and career prospects within Children's Services.

For all your hard work, you will receive the following;
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Plus, an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network. Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)