Business Support Administrator

4 weeks ago


Devon, United Kingdom Devon County Council Full time

Fixed Term 9 Months

Why work for Fostering?
Fostering Devon is a large, countywide service that provides foster care placements to children and young people in the care of the local authority. We also recruit new foster carers, look to make foster placements permanent, provide training and support to our existing carers, undertake specialist parenting assessments, and two teams work directly with those children and young people in placement.

The teams care passionately about what they do, about the foster carers/supported lodgings hosts they support, and the difference a good placement can mean for children and young people in care. In turn there is a supportive working environment and the commitment to continuous improvement means we don’t stand still but work hard to do the best we can for our carers and the children of Devon.

The support we provide in Business Support is flexible and responsive to the goals of the Fostering Service and its individual teams. We have nine Business Support Administrators, some full time and some part time, working over three areas. They take responsibility for supporting one or two teams, individually or with a colleague, but also cover each other as required. Some tasks are common across teams and offices, others more specialised depending on the work of the team and the support they require.

What types of tasks will you be doing as a Business Support Administrator?

Task Frequency  Office Undertake DBS and medical checks for current foster carers on behalf of the social work teamWeeklyAllMaintain the foster carer records (paper and electronic) on behalf of the social work teamDailyAllType staff supervision , update the supervision database and personnel filesMonthlyAllPrepare and provide assistance to Fostering Managers with management information requirementsMonthlyAllSupport the Annual Review and Supervision process for foster carersWeeklyAllTo respond to information sharing requests from various partiesAd-hocAllArrange conferences/training/support groups, liaise with trainers/speakers; issue certificates; maintain recordsWeeklyTotnesSupport social workers with the Assessment process, including taking responsibility for requesting checks and referencesWeeklyExeterOrganise and minute Peer GuidesMonthlyTotnesGeneral office duties, such as post, stock management and ordering etcDaily, rotaAll


Interview Date: 03/05/2024



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