Childrens Services Administrator

**The job itself**:
**The job itself**:
The ERSCP Partnership’s Business Unit is looking for someone to become our full time, level 2 Children’s Services Support Administrator. The unit is situated in the ERYC Safeguarding and Partnership Hub.

The East Riding Safeguarding Children Partnership (ERSCP) is made up of East Riding of Yorkshire County Council, NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB), and Humberside Police. Their aim is to make sure that children and families can get the right support, in the right place at the right time. We are doing this by
- Working together to identify and respond to the needs of children in the area
- Commissioning and publishing local child safeguarding practice reviews
- Making sure of the effectiveness of the local safeguarding arrangements which are independently scrutinised.
- Ensuring administrative processes are carried out accurately and efficiently by checking, verifying and authorising processes.
- Providing diary management services to support the Partnership
- Preparing reports, letters and invites for the Partnership as directed by the Partnership Business Unit Manager, ensuring accuracy and distribution to agreed time scales.
- Undertake administrative activities including the preparation and processing of all necessary correspondence, documentation relating to activities undertaken by the Partnership, fully utilising systems with mínimal supervision.
- Attending complex meetings for notetaking, issuing documentation, creating documentation in standard MS formats, formal minute taking and typed-document creation. You must be fully equipped to undertake minute taking, deliver standard administrative duties as well as providing transcripts and taking instructions from project lead.
- Check, process and produce documentation and data using a range of IT systems including Microsoft Office and service specific packages.
- Telephone duties including answering calls, responding to customer enquiries and taking messages for internal and external calls.
- Support with the Partnerships social media communications and ERSCP website.
- Assist the ERSCP Partnership Business Unit Manager in the development and monitoring of ERSCP assurance activity and project work

Please note that you must be fluent in the English language (as a requirement of Part 7 of the Immigration Act - for the effective performance of this customer-facing role).

East Riding office spaces are only 3 - 6 miles from Hull, 13 miles from North Lincolnshire, 20 miles from North East Lincolnshire, 22 miles from Doncaster, 17 miles from Scarborough and 14 miles from York, with strong access routes via the M62 and A1079.

As well as a competitive salary and generous annual leave allowance, you will receive a tailored induction package and regular reflective supervision. We also have an excellent Local Government pension scheme and have a great range of other benefits. You will be part of an important team which makes a real difference to children’s lives.

**Why work for East Riding?**

We really value our staff, and it is our fundamental belief that our staff are the most important asset in fulfilling our responsibility to provide a quality service to children, young people and their families.

Benefits of working within Children Young People Support & Safeguarding Services (CYPSSS) are:

- Regular reflective supervision with a focus on your wellbeing, your development, and what is working well
- Flexible working options
- Christmas to New Year shut down - working arrangements are on a rota basis with additional time paid or time off in lieu
- Strong management support at all levels
- A service wide commitment to celebrating best practice and practice strengths
- A service wide commitment to promoting wellbeing and support

**Our Model of Practice** **Stronger Together: ‘You can, I can, We can’**

We have created a bespoke practice model that reflects and connects our vision, our value base and our behaviour as one East Riding of Yorkshire approach to working with children, young people and their families, which is nurtured and grown from within East Riding of Yorkshire CYPSSS and owned by our workforce.

Our Stronger Together approach is strengths based, solution-focussed, and relational recognising that the very best work with families takes place within the context of excellent, collaborative relationships.

**Other important information**

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and is pursuing equality of opportunity in employment.