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We are looking for a part time Information and Advice Officer to join our busy assessment team. In this role you will offer administrative and logistical support to the Team Manager and your team ,for two and half days per week (1/2 day Weds and Thurs & Fri). Our Assessment Teams are a rewarding but fast-paced environment to work in. We are committed to ensuring that children, young people and families in our community receive a positive and timely service, proportionate to their needs and informed by their own expertise. The work is rich, varied and demands a high level of multi-agency working, often to tight timelines. The role is varied and every day is different. The relationship you build with your colleagues, and the support and drive you bring will be crucial to the day to day functioning of the team. This role does not include working directly with children and families and is office based, with remote working arrangements in place.
Job Responsibility:
Offer administrative and logistical support to the Team Manager and your team
Organising and minuting strategy meetings
Liaising with partners and requesting and following up information from other agencies
Ensuring that the allocated social worker is supported to obtain all the information needed, to make a timely and informed decision for the children and families they work with
Requirements:
Be a highly organised and motivated individual, who enjoys supporting others and contributing to a positive team culture
Have an understanding of multi-agency working in the context of safeguarding
Have some skills or previous experience of the demands of providing timely, written and accurate records from complex meeting
What we offer:
Generous annual leave starting at 25 days + bank holidays
Sick pay
Local government pension scheme
Access to a range of benefits via Employee Benefits Platform, including in-store and online discounts
Cycle to Work and Home & Electronics schemes
Buy up to 10 days additional annual leave (pro-rata)
Access to car lease scheme
Take your bank holidays flexibly
Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared Cost AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
Access to development opportunities including apprenticeships
Paid volunteering hours each year
Access to our equality, diversity and inclusion network
Opportunities to receive Employee Recognition Awards