Panel & Case Conference Clerk

Overview

Town Hall
160 Whitechapel Road
LONDON
E1 1BJ

Tower Hamlets Council is seeking to recruit a Panel & Case Conference Clerk within the Business Support Hub on a fixed term contract, this post will be part of the Panel and Case Conference Clerks Team Supporting Families and Health Adults and Communities services in clerking of statutory meetings. You will play a key role in the administration, delivery and minuting of Child Protection Conferences and Panels along with other statutory meetings.

Responsibilities

You will play a key role in the administration, delivery and minuting of Child Protection Conferences and Panels along with other statutory meetings.

Qualifications and required experience

We are looking for an experienced clerk/minute taker with a background in working within the Childrens and Adults Social Care setting within the public sector. We would like to hear from you if you are someone who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills and demonstrable experience of building strong working relationships across different hierarchy and includes both internal and external stakeholders. It is crucial that you will possess demonstrable experience in supporting complex and statutory meetings whilst working under pressure in delivering against agreed outputs.

You will need to demonstrate your solution focussed approach and adaptability in getting up to speed with new systems and processes quickly. You must be ICT literate and proficient in all Office 365 packages. It is desirable if you have used Mosaic software or similar previously.

Working arrangements

This will primarily be an office-based role, with flexibility of some hybrid working as determined by the Senior Panel and Case Conference Clerk in meeting the needs of the service.

Values and equality

Tower Hamlets vision for our borough is that: people are aspirational, independent and have equal access to opportunities; we are a borough that our residents are proud of and love to live in; and we are a dynamic, outcomes-based council using digital innovation and partnership working to respond to the changing needs of our borough. We want people who aspire to our TOWER values: Together; Open; Willing; Excellent; Respect.

Tower Hamlets has a zero-tolerance approach to, and works to eradicate, all forms of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, age, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, status as a civil partner, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy and maternity and looks to employ a diverse workforce representative of those groups. We recognise that people can also be disadvantaged by their social and economic circumstances, so we will work to eliminate discrimination and disadvantage caused by social class.

We welcome applicants interested in flexible working arrangements and also applicants who live in the borough.

Application details

Each role has a detailed job description and person specification, which are published on the advert for the relevant role. The person specification sets out the criteria we use to assess applicants. It is important that in your application you address all criteria that are marked with the letter A in the person specification. The letter A indicates that we will use the criteria to shortlist (and longlist if we need to) candidates. You should provide examples of how you meet the criteria.

You will be asked to complete some diversity monitoring information and certify your right to work in the UK. You will need to provide details of two references. Referees will only be contacted for successful applicants.

For business reasons, we may withdraw vacancies but If we do so, we will let applicants know as soon as possible and we would remove them from our portal.