Cypl Coordinator

About Us
At West Sussex County Council, we are ambitious for our children and our workforce.

We are committed to improving our services for the children and families in West Sussex that we support and care for.

Children, Young People & Learning are focused on delivering a significant shift to prevention of needing to bring children into care where it is safe not to.

Closer working with partners, and a focused commissioning strategy will achieve better outcomes for our children and young people.

About The Job Salary**:
£23,194 to £24,496

Working Pattern:
Full Time (37 hours)

Contract Length:
Permanent

Location:
Worthing

Closing Date:
Sunday 8th January 2023

We're looking for a permanent coordinator to deliver and provide high-quality, fast-paced administrative support to our Business Support service within Children's Commissioning.

Your main focus will be to work alongside commissioners and social care teams to coordinate a range of decision making panels, involving collating reports, setting agendas, taking minutes and ensuring each panel runs smoothly, as well as a range of other administrative tasks.

As a Coordinator, you will have a genuine passion for wanting to make a difference and an understanding of the positive impact that your highly skilled administrative support will have on the wider Children, Young People and Learning directorate and the work they do to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.

Experience and Skills Key Skills**:

• Ability to build strong working relationships to negotiate and influence across the organisation
• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of risk and recommend appropriate course of action
• Ability to communicate, both orally and in writing, complicated or sensitive information to a range of audiences to achieve positive outcomes
• Highly accurate IT and keyboard skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint and be adept and proactive at picking up new technologies quickly.
• Good time management to manage short deadlines and conflicting priority

Qualifications and/or experience:

• GCSE English and Maths, or equivalent qualification or experience operating at this level of literacy and numeracy
• Experience of providing business support, advice and/or guidance to others
• Experience of forming effective working relationships
• Experience of administrative tasks and processes
• Experience of inputting data and using databases
• Experience of working in a fast paced, innovative work environment, whilst remaining calm
• Good, uptodate working knowledge of legislation relevant to the specialist area of the post e.g. West Sussex Continuum of Need, working together 2015 and Children's Act Desirable

Rewards and Benefits
As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do.

We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do.

In addition to working within a great team and a brilliant opportunity you will receive:

• A competitive salary

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24 days annual leave + bank holidays

• A generous pension scheme
• Training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• Flexible working
• A range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers with the opportunity to save over £1,000 (Including: Argos, Samsung, Asos, B&Q and many more)
• Free access to employee assistance programmes
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres
• A range of commuting and business travel discounts and initiatives

For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information
The reference number for this role is
CAFHE04182

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

We prefer to hire people directly, but we do have a supplier list for when we need a helping hand.

We'll be in touch directly if we need you

Job Reference:
CAFHE04182

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