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How You'll Make a Difference
As an Administrator for the Safeguarding Business Unit, you will provide detailed and accurate administration support for the multi agency training programme and ensure that enquiries and information are processed efficiently on behalf of the Children’s Partnership and Safeguarding Adults Board.
You will be working with the Safeguarding Business Manager as part of a small, experienced team, who are friendly and welcoming and training and support will be given.
What You Will Be Doing
- You will act as the main point of contact for the multi agency training for the business unit and will provide administrative support to the two partnerships and the Business Manager, ensuring work carried out is efficient and procedures are effectively implemented.
- Daily, you will deal with enquiries and information requests, interacting with colleagues and partner agencies to maintain strong working relationships.
- It will be your responsibility to collate and maintain records and prepare documents, ensuring they are accurate and of a high standard.
- Regularly, you will schedule events, support with pre and post course information, accurately record attendance using the online booking system and ensure that online payments are accurate.
- You will research and collate evidence for presentation in reports. This may include drafting sections of documents for use by others.
- We require you to escalate specific concerns, queries and issues and ensure they are accurately and promptly relayed when necessary.
- You will also be required to accurately record and assist in the monitoring and maintaining of budgets/financial information/resources.
What We Need From You
- We require you to hold 3 GCSE’s at grade C/4 or above, including English and maths or have an equivalent qualification or relevant experience in office administration.
- It is essential that you can communicate effectively to customers, professionals and partnership agencies using a variety of media including email, phone and face to face.
- You will have great IT skills and know its practical application, including experience of using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and maintaining computerised record systems.
- We require you to have experience in using databases, including running standard reports, analysing data and presenting findings, together with experience of basic financial procedures such as petty cash, invoicing etc.
What You Need To Know
- This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Yate and working from home.
- This is for a limited term contract, due to end 27th July 2026.
- This post is part time, 18.5 hours a week and salary will be pro-rated to hours worked.
Interviews will be held on 26th June 2025.
How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different
- As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
- We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
- We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
- We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.
- What’s special here is the strength of the team ethos, the support and the training.
Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.
- We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
- We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
- We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.
We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.
We’re making a difference, be part of it!
To view the full job description, please click this link: Business Support Officer - Safeguarding Business Unit - Job Description
