Children's Home Administrator

**Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?**

Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops

**Where and when do we need you?**

We are recruiting for a Support Worker for our residential children’s home in Portchester. Our home accommodates children aged 14 - 18 and specialises in providing therapeutic informed practices for our young people, supporting them towards independence.

You will be working as part of a wonderful team and encouraged to develop your career within an ambitious and growing organisation that is committed to staff retention and development. The successful applicant will work onsite supporting a team of support workers and the home management team to ensure the delivery of continuous high-quality service and growth.

Working as our administrator you will be involved in a range of exciting and rewarding things like:

- **Using your great communication skills**:

- Maintaining a professional manner, answering the phone positively, responding to any queries and passing on the necessary information.
- **Keeping everyone organised** - Managing the day to day diaries of the management team.
- **Every penny counts** - Undertaking financial tasks including the petty cash and monitoring of this process.
- **Supporting with staffing and coordination** -To aid and support the leadership team with Rota management, recording of staffing usage and taking part in the recruitment process.
- **Compliance is key** - Monitoring the staff training matrix and establishing any required links or training plans that may be identified.
- **Dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s** - Supporting the homes management in updating and creating development plans as well as six monthly regulation 45 reports.
- **Keeping things safe** - Monitoring maintenance tasks and liaising with the maintenance department and the home management to ensure that any outstanding tasks are reported or in line to be completed
- **Using your previous experience**:

- Possessing competent IT skills. The ability to use Microsoft word, excel and outlook are a must. Power Point and Publisher knowledge are also desirable.
- **Working as part of an amazing team** - Use your ability to work as part of a team within a fast paced, busy and varied working environment.

**Desirable. but not Essential**
- Whilst we value the knowledge and understanding that experience and qualifications can bring we also know that some of our best people have come to us from unrelated backgrounds. These people already held our core values at heart, and with the dedication of our amazing in-house training and development team, we have supported the rest_
- Previous experience in a similar role
- GCSE A-C in English or equivalent NVQ 2

**Let us look after you**

Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector.
- Free Staff lotteries (_including prizes such as £1000 holiday vouchers, weekends away, luxury hampers and vouchers_)
- Holiday Accrual Scheme and additional Holiday Purchase _(up to 5 days)_
- Health Shield _(Health cash plan)_
- Employee Assistance Scheme _(Application based emergency financial assistance for employees)_
- Education Grant - (_funding up to master’s level accreditation_)
- Wellbeing Initiatives - _Team Building Days, Summer Festival, Wellbeing boxes_
- Employee Assistance Programme _(24/7 counselling service)_
- Highstreet discount platform, Discounted Gym Membership
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Leadership Courses
- Free Parking
- Annual Staff Awards/ Long Service Awards
- Pension Scheme
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card
- £250 Refer a Foster Carer Scheme

**Find your happy place - we can’t wait to meet you**

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 30 per week

**Salary**: £20,767.00-£24,960.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee mentoring programme
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Fareham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Administrative experience: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person