Children’s Social Care – Higher Business Services Administrator – Ref: 001599 – Contract: Permanent – Salary: £26,403 - £28,142 (full tim equivalent) – Actual Salary: £13,202 - £14,071 per annum – Hours: 18.33 per week (part-time) – Based: Rock St Resource Centre, Rock Street, Oldham – Closing Date: Sunday 12 July 2026 – Interview Date: TBC.
Role Overview
We’re looking for a committed and motivated person to provide high quality professional support to the children’s safeguarding unit to help families keep children safe. The role involves providing effective and comprehensive administrative support to our Childrens Safeguarding Unit, ensuring service support needs are met efficiently and effectively.
In this role you will
- Send out invitations ensuring statutory timescales are followed
- Minute social care meetings and distribute key documents to professionals and families
- Ensure information relevant to the service is recorded on systems accordingly
- Provide administrative support, working to competing and changing priorities and demands
- Provide an excellent level of customer service working as part of a team
- Use computer packages and internal systems and communicate with a variety of audiences
- Securely manage confidential and sensitive information
We need you to have
- Experience in co‑ordinating and minuting meetings
- Good organisational skills and be able to work on own initiative
- Experience of providing a high standard of customer service
- Experience of ordering goods and services and undertaking financial tasks
- Be a flexible team player, able to work at pace with excellent attention to detail
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of the General Data Protection Regulations
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave which increases after 5 and 10 years’ service
- The option to purchase additional annual leave
- An attractive LGPS benefit pension scheme with the option to make shared cost additional voluntary contributions
- Discounted gym membership with Oldham Active
- Staff discount scheme for shopping, entertainment, eating‑out, eating‑in, travel, motoring and more
- Salary sacrifice scheme for home and electronics and Cycle to Work
- Wellbeing support, including a Mental Health First Aider network and an Employment Assistance Programme that provides 24 hours access to advice and support
- Staff recognition and celebration events
- Peer support groups
Equal Opportunities
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and therefore expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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