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Business Support Admin Officer – Children's Services

Posting date:	17 September 2024
Salary:	£12.59 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	16 October 2024
Location:	Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 5ND
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	Barnsley 0009 3E8E / 1

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Title: Business Support Admin Officer - Social Services Team

Job Ref: Barnsley 0009 3E8E / 1

Pay Rate: £12.59 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months

City: Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Hybrid working

Enhanced DBS required for this role



A Business Support Admin Officer is needed to support the LADO and IRO service, within the children's social services team.

You will be responsible for the minute taking for LADO, emails, updating spreadsheet trackers and tracker enhancement for both services, setting up and invites to meetings, requesting reports.

Minute taking skills and experience are essential for this role.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide an efficient and confidential business support service to front line and statutory services
Deal with telephone and face to face enquiries providing advice, guidance, signposting and support to internal and external customers across a diverse range of service functions in line with legislation, regulations policies and procedures.
Respond to a variety of correspondence, dealing with incoming and outgoing information.
Liaise and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders including managers, employees and members of the public, ensuring information and communication links are maintained.
Support Statutory Meetings, including recording of decisions accurately and at speed and directly onto e forms, templates using mobile IT devices.
Organise and co-ordinate meetings, diaries and appointments, ensuring schedules and venues are appropriate for attendees.
Analyse and evaluate data/information and produce reports/information/data which is appropriate for a range of audiences including senior managers, elected members, employees and members of the public.
Undertake administrative duties whilst dealing with interruptions, queries and conflicting demands arising from customer queries and requests.
Input, check and maintain a variety of electronic and paper-based systems, ensuring information is accurate and stored appropriately.
Undertake financial administration including placing orders, reconciling and processing payments using electronic systems.

Qualifications:

Level 2 qualification in an appropriate area
Training on Microsoft Office



Skills & Experience:

Experience of working within a business support environment
Proven experience of working with highly confidential and sensitive information
Experience of undertaking research and providing written and verbal reports of findings
Experience of working with financial information, solving problems in relation to
payments and billing
Experience of servicing meetings and minute taking directly onto mobile devices at speed and with accuracy



Knowledge:

Knowledge and understanding of national and local government policies and agendas. A/I E
Good working knowledge of computer based systems including Microsoft Office. A/T E
Good knowledge in relation to information governance, data protection, health & safety
and risk management
Knowledge and understanding of project management techniques.


Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

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Job Ref: Barnsley 0009 3E8E / 1


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

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