London, United Kingdom

Admin - Social Work Coordinator

 Job Description:

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Islington to assist with the appointment of a Admin - Social Work Coordinator, on a 3-month contract, likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £19.59 - £25.96 per Hour

Responsibilities:

  • Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young persons / vulnerable adults in the care of the service, including undertaking regular Child Protection training at a level commensurate with role.
  • Create, maintain and improve administrative systems to enable the service to meet its aims of delivering a high quality service to children and families.
  • Work pro-actively and co-operatively within the service to ensure that timely and accurate information about activity and performance is produced and collated as required, and maintain statistical information to agreed deadlines and a high level of accuracy.
  • Develop and maintain good working relationships with other teams within Childrens Social Care, other Council departments and clients referred to the service.
  • Deal sensitively with enquiries or telephone messages, logging calls accurately and alerting social work staff or managers immediately to any issues requiring immediate attention.

Qualifications:

  • Educated to at least GCSE or equivalent with Pass in English language
  • Experience of using Microsoft office applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint to an advanced level
  • Significant experience in an administrative role.
  • Experience of providing diary management support and minuting meetings to a good standard

Please note:

  • You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
  • You should have right to work in U.K
  • This role requires an enhanced DBS

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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  Required Skills:

Welfare Excel Discretion Pay PowerPoint Protection Enquiries LTD Microsoft Office Business English Training Management