Panel Coordinator in Dudley

We are seeking a proactive and skilled Panel Coordinator to lead the operational delivery of a key multi-agency decision-making panel within Children's Services. This is an exciting opportunity to play a vital role in ensuring effective governance, high-quality administration, and robust decision-making processes that support children, young people, and families across Dudley., As Panel Coordinator, you will take ownership of the end-to-end coordination of a weekly panel, ensuring all processes run efficiently, consistently, and to a high standard. You will act as the central point of contact for panel members, social work teams, and senior leaders, maintaining effective communication and ensuring that documentation, agendas, reports, and action tracking are managed with accuracy and professionalism. Working closely with operational and senior leaders, you will quality assure panel information, identify gaps, drive improvements in administrative processes, and help strengthen accountability across the service.

What You'll Be Doing

• Coordinating and quality assuring a weekly multi-agency panel.
• Managing panel timetables, submissions, agendas, and circulation of panel packs.
• Producing and quality assuring meeting minutes, actions, and follow-up activity.
• Maintaining accurate records, trackers, and workflow systems.
• Liaising with social work teams and stakeholders to resolve information gaps.
• Implementing process improvements to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• Supporting strong governance, accountability, and performance standards across Children's Services.
• Are you a highly organised professional with excellent coordination skills and a passion for improving outcomes for children and young people?, We are looking for someone who has:
• Experience coordinating statutory, governance, or decision-making panels within Children's Services or a similar regulated environment.
• Demonstrable experience of improving administrative processes and raising performance standards.
• An NVQ Level 3 qualification in Administration or equivalent.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to implement structured timetables and workflows.
• Confidence working with a range of stakeholders, including social work teams and senior leaders.
• Excellent ICT skills and experience using a variety of business systems.
• A commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and public service values.
• We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; therefore, the post is subject to medical clearance and an enhanced DBS check.

A commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and public service values.

About Dudley Council

It's an incredibly exciting time to work in Dudley Council as we embark on numerous multi-million pound regeneration schemes which will be real game-changers for the borough. In addition to the exciting schemes such as the Midland Metro we also have the ongoing and very serious challenges of ensuring vulnerable people across the borough receive the services they deserve. At Dudley Council we have a 'one council' ethos that builds an effective and dynamic organisation which grows the economy and creates jobs, creating a cleaner and greener place and supports stronger and safer communities. We are rightly proud to be the historic capital of the Black Country and, working with our partners, Dudley Council is also committed to looking forward and helping to deliver our borough vision of 'Forge a Future for all' www.dudleyboroughvision2030.org.uk We ensure communities influence council decisions and are committed to delivering services in partnership with communities. We provide flexible and responsive service in partnership and help communities help themselves. In joining a local authority that serves 320,000 residents you will become an integral part of a council that:

• is ready to embrace change, providing an environment in which you will be encouraged to make your mark
• is aware of its key challenges and the need for a new energy to innovate the council, in order to find cost effective ways of delivering services
• has aligned its political and managerial leadership structures and is committed to protecting, securing and transforming the lives of children, families, the vulnerable and older people
• wants borough residents to have their say through our community forums
• dedicates time to meaningful consultation and listen to the views of our residents
• is working with the community to encourage active involvement of our residents

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