Safeguarding Minute Taker / Business Support Officer

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	15 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Competitive
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	14 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	Stockport , SK1 3TA
Cwmni:	inploi
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	75716097

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Safeguarding Minute Taker / Business Support Officer
Scale 4 (£12,792 - £13,634 per annum)
18.5 Hours, Part Time - Preferable working hours for this role are Wednesday morning, and all-day Thursday and Friday.
Permanent
Hybrid with a requirement for the post holder to work from our Grand Central office at least one day per week.

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 27th July 2025
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 28th July 2025
Interview Date: 1st August 2025
Interview Type: In person interview with a minute taking test

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Your Role

We have a part-time, permanent opportunity supporting the administration and minute taking of the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) and safeguarding meetings for the Children’s Safeguarding Unit. Our offices are based in Stockport, with the opportunity of hybrid working both in the office and from home to meet service need.

In this role you will see the vital work carried out by the professionals we support to keep the people of Stockport safe. Is it a very interesting area of work and Business Support have a vital part to play in this, which keeps all our team motivated to make a difference.

The role centres around minute taking of safeguarding meetings and the administration linked to this.

Training and support will be provided to the successful candidate, but experience in this area is preferable.

About You

You will be a confident and experienced minute taker who can take accurate and high-quality minutes, using a laptop, of safeguarding meetings. This is a demanding and challenging role, and you will need emotional resilience as often you will be listening to distressing and upsetting information.

Working on your own and as part of a very supportive team, you will use your initiative to ensure key work is completed to meet statutory timescales. Part of your role will be to organise LADO or Child Protection meetings, and enter and retrieve confidential and sensitive information on case management systems.

You should be computer literate and proficient in working with standard office IT applications including MS Office. You will be expected to learn how to navigate in-house ICT systems to work with data and information.

You will work as part of the Business Support Hub working with front line services and will therefore need the ability to build effective working relationships, work using your own initiative, be proactive and flexible with a positive, can-do attitude.

About Us

We are a friendly and dynamic business support team, working within Children’s and Adults’ Safeguarding, who take pride in everything we do to ensure our services continue to be of an excellent and high-quality standard.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Hilary van Deursen (hilary.vandeursen@stockport.gov.uk) or Kerry Carrigan (kerry.carrigan@stockport.gov.uk) for an informal discussion about the role

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Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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