Job Details
London borough of Islington are looking for an experienced admin to be apart of their children social team. SWC are the first point of contact for the team from other staff, service users and other professionals. As an experienced administrator the SWC is expected to anticipate the planning and preparation necessary ahead of the range of meetings that take place with families or other professionals. The SWC is also expected to help the social workers they support stay organised. They manage the team calendar, which shows all meetings for the team so they will be able to help social workers prioritise their tasks.
1. Take responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young person’s / vulnerable adults in the care of the service, including undertaking regular
Child Protection training at a level commensurate with role.
2. Create, maintain and improve administrative systems to enable the service to meet its= aims of delivering a high quality service to children and families.
3. Work pro-actively and co-operatively within the service to ensure that timely and accurate information about activity and performance is produced and collated as required, and maintain statistical information to agreed deadlines and a high level of accuracy.
4. Develop and maintain good working relationships with other teams within Children’s Social Care, other Council departments and clients referred to the service.
5. Deal sensitively with enquiries or telephone messages, logging calls accurately and alerting social work staff or managers immediately to any issues requiring immediate attention.
6. Use appropriate databases, Microsoft Office and other ICT systems to produce reports, spreadsheets and other documents as required supporting the service and assist others in the use of information technology systems when required.
7. Follow guidelines to produce standard written or electronic responses to enquiries from family members or professionals to tight deadlines.
8. Undertake support tasks on projects as required.
9. Provide an effective diary-management function for social workers in order to effectively manage meetings, visits, etc.
Payrate: £26.96 umbrella
