About us
Works in our Safeguarding and Review Team, this interesting, busy and varied post involves a wide range of tasks and activities to support our Independent Reviewing Officers who chair Children We Care For Reviews for all children in care and also audit the quality of service provision.
About the role
You will provide business administration support in a variety of ways:
- You will be entering data into relevant manual and computerised information systems, including the Oxfordshire County Council Liquidlogic Childrens Services (LCS) database, within relevant statutory and local protocols. This includes scanning and uploading documents.
- You will arrange the initial Review for children who come into care and send out invites to professionals.
- You will co-ordinate and process the sending out of Review minutes within statutory timescales.
- You will be liaising with Independent Reviewing Officers regarding specific requirements for individual Reviews.
- You will monitor a busy Team Inbox and respond to queries.
We can offer flexible working, enabling our Team Support Assistant to work from home with a requirement to occasionally attend the office.
We have a dedicated training and induction plan for all new starters where we will develop your knowledge, skills and expertise in business administration in order for you to be successful in your role.
Please note, this post involves extensive access to very sensitive and highly confidential information regarding children that is often distressing.
About you
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated part-time administrator, with good MS Office and ICT skills, in addition to excellent personal, communication and teamwork skills, a flexible approach and an interest in Children’s Social Care.
Rewards and benefits
It really is true that every single job role here contributes to bettering the lives of the people in our county – we want to do this for our employees too. We are proud of our strong flexible working culture, including the opportunity for flexibility on working hours and the use of technology to support agile working. We offer some of the very best learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development.
We have a generous holiday allowance which rises as you remain in employment with us up to 32 days, as well as giving you the option to buy additional holiday. You will also have access to a Local Government Pension Scheme with employer contributions of up to 19.9% of your salary; a range of local and national retail discounts; and a host of enhanced family friendly policies including carers leave and paid time off for volunteering.
Would you like to know more?
Please click here to view the Job Description and Selection Criteria.
How to apply: Team Support Assistant (Safeguarding & Review Team) OCC60545 (newjob.org.uk)
