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Childrens Services Administrator L1
The job itself
This post is situated within the Anlaby Children’s Centre Business Support Team, supporting a multifaceted hub made up of 3 teams. The teams supported by the business support team are the Children’s Safeguarding Team, Children with Disabilities Team and Participation & Rights Team. The practitioners we support assist families from pre-birth to 25 years providing a range of services from early help to safeguarding involvement, including children and young people with additional needs.
An opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated individual to join this busy business support team providing a wide range of administrative support including minute taking to the above teams within Children’s Services, based at Anlaby Children’s Centre, First Lane, Anlaby.
The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and committed to providing a quality service, have a flexible approach and the ability to adapt to a changing environment. To undertake this role successfully you need to be customer focused, able to work easily within a challenging environment, have excellent administrative and organisational skills and have the motivation and desire to achieve a high quality service. You should be able to demonstrate effective use of a range of ICT systems/software packages. A high level of customer service is required as is the ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with sensitive material. Teamwork plays a vital role as does the ability to meet deadlines, working on your own initiative and also being able to delegate tasks if necessary.
The business support team consists of 1 Senior Children’s Services Administrator, this vacancy and 4 part time Children’s Services Administrator Level 1’s. Business support is the fuel to our Children, Young People Safeguarding and Support Service (CYPSSS) engine, keeping us working as a system, offering support in taking minutes, and other general administration duties.
This is an opportunity to work within CYPSSS and the invaluable support we provide for families within the East Riding. For more information, please email Vicky.cox@eastriding.gov.uk
Why work for East Riding?
We really value our staff, and it is our fundamental belief that our staff are the most important asset in fulfilling our responsibility to provide a quality service to children, young people and their families.
Benefits of working within Children Young People Support & Safeguarding Services (CYPSSS), of which the Pathway Team is included are:
- Regular reflective supervision with a focus on your wellbeing, your development, and what is working well
- Flexible working options
- Christmas to New Year shut down – working arrangements are on a rota basis with additional time paid or time off in lieu
- Strong management support at all levels
- A service wide commitment to celebrating best practice and practice strengths
- A service wide commitment to promoting wellbeing and support
Our Model of Practice Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’
We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.
Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.
Other important information
East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is pursuing equality of opportunity in employment.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS Check
Want to know more?
Get in touch for more information.
- Name
- Kara Smith
- Role
- Senior Childrens Services Administrator
- kara.smith@eastriding.gov.uk
- Phone
- 07811695105
Additional information
Remote working
The Council offers many remote working opportunities as part of our commitment to providing flexibility wherever possible for our employees.
Pay and reward
The Council is undertaking a review of pay and reward as part of its ambitions to attract and retain employees by having effective pay and development structures in place to support modern ways of working and to support the provision of Council services which meet local priorities. Please note that the future terms and conditions of this post may change following the outcome of this review.
Internal Candidates
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DBS/Medical check
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance check.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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