The role
About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a 'can do' attitude and enviable reputation. As a council, we are successful, passionate and forward thinking. We are committed to out 'Fairer Future for All' promise that ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. If you want to make a difference at a local level, apply to Southwark Council today.
The role:
The central purpose of this role is the organisation and administration of Child Protection conferences for our Children's Service. This will include convening meetings, providing full administrative support and the production of accurate and concise records of decisions and minutes. The method used to record and store these minutes is our on-line Integrated Children’s System (Mosaic).
You will be playing a key part in our Child Protection Team, you will work closely with social work staff and respond to a range of enquiries i.e. controlling electronic workflows, advising colleagues on operational procedures and statutory timescales. In addition, you will respond to complex enquiries and make appropriate referrals.
You will have an office base (Peckham), but will work from other locations in and out of the Borough including Schools and Hospitals on occasion.
About you:
To thrive in this role you will have strong literacy and communication skills, be a good team player but also able to work on your own initiative. Good time management is essential. A professional attitude will equip you to deal with a wide variety of people. The nature of this role will demand excellent attention to detail to complete accurate work.
You will come as a skilled user of Information Technology, including Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Outlook) and web based applications, these skills will enable you to respond to the demands of this role. Your experience of maintaining and manipulating databases will also be essential, as we collect monitoring data for each meeting and need to ensure accurate information is maintained on a large scale. Training will be provided in the specialist area of understanding Child Welfare and Client databases. Assessment and typing speed tests will form part of the selection process.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 27 days basic annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 34 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Additional details
This is a full time post, 36 hours per week.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: Monday 22nd May 2023 at 23:59
Interview and Assessment date: Friday 26th May 2023
SWCINT
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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