Team Administrator

Gloucestershire County Council•Stroudsburg, PA

10d•£27,274 - £28,608•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

Excellent IT and communication skills
Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach
Ability to manage your workload to meet deadlines
Enjoy providing high level admin support to our Permanency Social Care Teams

Responsibilities

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)

Benefits

Flexible and agile working opportunities
25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
Option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
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)