Administrator (Fostering)

4 months ago

Walsall, United Kingdom Fusion Fostering Full time

At Fusion Fostering, our focus is to achieve positive experiences for the children and young people looked after by our dedicated foster carers. We have built strong relationships with Local Authorities across the UK to provide a range of exceptional children’s services delivered by a team of motivated, highly competent practitioners. We consistently drive positive outcomes for young people and this child-focussed approach, combined with our commitment to continuous learning and improvement, has contributed to our reputation for service excellence, and recent growth of the organisation.

We are currently seeking an **Administrator ** to join the team at Fusion. The successful applicant will have experience of a supporting role in fostering, or children's services.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- To provide administrative support across the region.
- To adhere to relevant legislation regulation and company policies and procedures to work consistently with Fusion’s core values and deliver best practice standards of work to ensure that all administrative services are delivered to a high standard across the region.
- To comply with Equal Opportunities Policy and procedures in all employment practices.
- Undertake other identified tasks, as required by Regional Management to support the fostering service.
- To undertake administrative processes involved in obtaining statutory and/or compliance checks and references, liaising with Supervising Social Workers and Form F Assessors.
- To maintain all records and files in line with agency procedures as required, this may include data systems, relevant recording spreadsheets or paper-based files, and to ensure regulatory and procedural compliance.
- To support colleagues within the region and/or nationwide with administration tasks.
- To ensure key information is shared with colleagues.
- To be flexible and cover for colleagues during times of sickness/leave.
- To take responsibility for own professional development, maintaining essential qualifications, regularly updating knowledge, and undertaking all training opportunities provided by Fusion Fostering Limited.
- Since confidential information is involved with the duties of this post the post holder will be required to always exercise discretion and to observe relevant codes of practice and legislation in relation to data protection and personal information.

**Skills/Qualifications/Experience**
- Minimum 2 year's experience within an administrative capacity.
- A good knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook, together with competence in maintaining data via in-house database systems.
- Experience of working in a role that requires a high level of regulatory compliance, such as (but not essentially) in children’s services.
- The ability to communicate well and clearly both verbally and in writing.
- The ability to process and analyse large amounts of complex and sometimes distressing information.
- Experience of managing a busy workload and meeting deadlines whilst maintaining high standards of accuracy and attention to detail.
- A valuing of diversity in relation to issues of ethnicity, religion, gender, disability and sexuality.
- An understanding of, and commitment to the need for confidentiality, specifically in relation to data protection regulations.
- A willingness to increase knowledge and understanding of issues through reading, discussion and training.
- Experience of minuting meetings to a professional standard.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Therefore, we expect all workers and employees to share this commitment.

We encourage a diverse workforce which reflects the communities we serve. To achieve this, we aim to respect personal differences and promote fairness and dignity for all. We are committed to being an equal opportunity employer.

If you are interested in taking on a new challenge and have the skills to strengthen our team further, then we want to hear from you.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

**Experience**:

- fostering or children's services: 1 year (required)

**Location**:

- Walsall (required)

Work Location: In person

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