Business Support Administrator - Localities North

Recruitment Hub; Corby; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Local Government Pension Scheme plus (

Job summary

Northamptonshire Children’s Trust is seeking an enthusiastic administrator to join the Localities team in Corby, providing essential business support to Social Work services. The role involves handling communications, minute taking, invoicing, and ensuring smooth processes across SharePoint and related systems.

You will join a busy safeguarding unit, work under daily deadlines, and contribute to delivering high-quality services for children, young people and families in Northamptonshire.

Qualifications

• Experience in business support roles and multi-agency networking.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to meet daily deadlines in a fast-paced, sensitive environment.
• Experience with minute taking and invoice processing.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and manage locality team processes and systems, including SharePoint, mailbox monitoring, tasks and responses.
• Attend and take accurate minutes of statutory children's services group meetings as directed.
• Work closely with service colleagues to ensure continuity of support for Children's Services.
• Support the team to meet business priorities and adapt to changing needs.

Skills

Business support experience

Minute taking

Invoice processing

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Our benefits

We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

• 28 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years


• Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health pension protection.


• Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave


• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.


• Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.


• Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits


• A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions


• Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities


• Subsidised town centre car parking scheme

About the role

Are you looking for a position that is challenging, rewarding, interesting and fast paced?

Northamptonshire Children's Trust Localities Business Support Team is looking for an enthusiastic and dedicated team player to join our busy Safeguarding Business Support team, offering administrative support to Social Work teams.

This is a full-time post based in Corby but may require travel to other locations as and when required.

We’re always happy to speak with interested candidates. If you’ve read the job description and have any questions, please feel free to email [e-mail]

What will you be doing?

This is a varied and rewarding role that requires good verbal and written communication skills.

You will co-ordinate and manage the locality team's processes and systems in relation to communications and SharePoint, including mailbox monitoring, task action and response.

You will attend and take accurate minutes of statutory children’s services group meetings (including attendance records etc.) as directed by the children’s services operational leads, in accordance with their priorities, protocols and procedures.

You will work closely and jointly with the other service members as required to ensure continuity of support for Children’s Services and undertake other tasks as appropriate to the role to meet the needs of the business

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

About you

You enjoy networking with multi agency professionals and are solution-focused, with experience in business support.

You are comfortable working to daily deadlines, in a fast paced, sensitive and confidential environment.

Experience in minute taking and processing invoices and experience of Microsoft Office packages is desirable as it will be a key task for these roles.

About us

At Northamptonshire Children’s Trust, children, young people and families are at the heart of everything we do. Every decision we make and every action we take is guided by our commitment to delivering high-quality services that make a lasting difference to the lives of children, young people and families across Northamptonshire.

We know that our people are our greatest strength. Our workforce is at the centre of our success, and we are committed to creating an environment where colleagues feel valued, supported and empowered to do the best job of their lives every day. We foster a culture built on kindness, collaboration and trust, where achievements are recognised, ideas are welcomed and innovation is encouraged.

We are proud of the positive impact we make together and delighted that our work has been recognised by Ofsted, with an Outstanding rating for Leadership and Management and Good ratings across Help and Protection, Children in Care and Care Leavers.

At NCT equality, diversity and inclusion are part of us and in everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and thrive in our organization. We are a Disability Confident employer and have a commitment to care leavers, who we guarantee an interview if they meet the essential criteria.

If you are passionate about making a difference and want to be part of an ambitious, supportive and forward-thinking organization, Northamptonshire Children’s Trust could be the place for you.

Supporting Children - A Career That Matters

Attached documents

• JD_PS- Administrator - LocalitiesNCT.pdf - Job description and person specification