Specialist Minute Taker

Specialist Minute Taker

**Specialist Minute Taker**

**Band / Grade** **BAND 7 £25,979 - £28,770 (pro rata for part time posts)**

**2 x 37 Hours**

**About us**:
Bradford Children and Families Trust was established to bring a step change in the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district. Our purpose is clear - to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination and resilience - but under a new Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we’ll achieve our ambition.

Working for the Bradford Children and Families trust offers the opportunity to work with great people who are passionate about delivering change in a city whose culture offers as much diversity as it’s geography.

**About the Role**:
Business Support Services within Bradford Children and Families Trust work closely to support and enable our Executive and Senior leaders, Early Help, Social Work, Performance, Partners, Finance and Corporate Services teams to provide essential support in the effective day to day running of Children’s services.

We are keen to further invest in our workforce and are now recruiting Specialist Minute Takers on both a full time and/or part time basis to enable a strong, flexible, proficient and confidential minute taking and administrative service within Children’s Social Care.

**About You**:
You will be a ‘can-do' person, who is able to assist in the provision of flexible, proficient and confidential minute taking and administrative service to the Children’s Services dealing with extremely sensitive and highly confidential information, within established policies and procedures and to strict deadlines

Key skills we will be looking for include:

- Excellent administrative skills including minute taking which are essential for this role.
- Excellent IT skills using Microsoft packages and case management systems.
- The ability to take and produce clear, relevant and accurate records of decisions and recommendations, and minutes of meetings covering complex material.
- The ability to circulate, via agreed secure electronic methods, decisions and recommendations, and minutes of various meetings
- The ability to communicate effectively both verbally face to face, on the telephone and in writing with a wide range of people.
- Strong literacy and numeracy skills in order to research and produce reports, non-standard correspondence, manage information and data and also to produce accurate records of meetings.
- Ability to work on own initiative with a pro-active approach to all tasks to ensure business objectives and deadlines are met.
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a diverse team environment, providing cover when needed to ensure continuity of service provision

Required skills and qualifications:

- Minimum of 3 years’ administrative experience
- Previous experience of minute taking at a speed of 50 wpm
- 5 GCSE's / O Levels or equivalent at grades A - C including Mathematics and English
- Excellent IT skills in the use of a variety of software for data handling and transmission
- Excellent communication and customer service skills at all levels
- Excellent attention to detail
- Knowledge of case and information management systems is desirable

**Please read the job profile document for relevant experience and qualifications and for further information and criteria which will be used for shortlisting.**

An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertake for this post

**Job Profile: Specialist Minute Taker.pdf**

**For any queries relating to this role please contact**

Rebecca Simmonds

Georgia Nahajec

Closing date - 29th September 2024

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

Pay: £25,979.00-£28,770.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Customer service: 1 year (preferred)
- Administrative experience: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Bradford