Fostering Administrator - Eastern Region

St Chris; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

25 days holiday rising to 27 after 3 y

Pension scheme

Job summary

St Christopher’s is seeking a Fostering Administrator for the Eastern Region to provide practical and proactive admin support to the Fostering Team. The role is hybrid, covering the Eastern Region with its Registered Office in Stevenage, offering a secure, supportive environment within St Christopher's Academy.

The post requires significant admin experience, strong literacy and numeracy, and a commitment to excellent customer service.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a secretarial or admin role.
• Strong literacy and numeracy skills and attention to details.
• Commit to delivering excellent customer service.
• An ability to develop sound professional relationships.
• Be flexible, reliable and a good communicator.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining and updating information systems, both manual and computerised
• Completing statutory checks
• Processing payments and invoices
• Coordinating training activities.

Skills

Secretarial experience

Literacy

Numeracy

Customer service

Relationship building

Communication

Job description

Fostering Administrator - Eastern Region

Full Time 37.5 hours per week

Location: Hybrid Working covering Eastern Region – Registered Office Stevenage

Contract: Permanent

About Us

Our vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved and happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future.

St Christopher's is a leading charity for children and young people. We are proud of our history of providing fostering, children's homes and innovative leaving care services across the UK. We have a passionate commitment to our young people, placing them at the centre of everything we do. We provide positive life experiences for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental or foster home.

We are an equal-opportunity employer keen to develop an inclusive workforce where people feel they belong. We hope to attract applications from under- represented groups, including people from different cultures, nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, ages, disabilities, religions, faith, sex, orientation, childcare responsibilities, and gender-diverse identities.

St Christopher’s Academy

At St Christopher`s we can provide more than just a care job. We can offer you acareerwhere you can develop your skills and knowledge while making a difference to young people’s lives.

When you join St Christopher’s, we will set you up in your career with a tailored development plan. Whether you want to move across to a different service, become a Manager or just explore further your current role, we will support you to map out your career trajectory and help you achieve your professional ambitions.

About the Role

As Administrator, you will provide closely administrative support and assistance to the Fostering Team and to establish and maintain effective links and professional relationships with colleagues including Supervising Social Workers, Support Workers, Foster Carers, Panel Members and other agency services.

Responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining and updating information systems, both manual and computerised
• Completing statutory checks
• Processing payments and invoices
• Coordinating training activities.

Applicants should have:

• Significant experience in a secretarial or admin role.
• Strong literacy and numeracy skills and attention to details.
• Commit to delivering excellent customer service
• An ability to develop sound professional relationships
• Be flexible, reliable and a good communicator.

In return we offer:

• Salary up to £28,041 depending on experience.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• A friendly working environment, a fun, open and honest culture.
• 25 days holiday rising to 27 days after 3 years’ service, plus Bank Holidays, pro-rata.
• Industry Leading training programme including access to level 3 qualifications, children’s right and participation, CSE, empowerment, mental health and Social Pedagogy,
• Contributory pension scheme, Enhanced Maternity and Company Sick Scheme.
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme, offering counselling, financial advice and legal support.
• Interest-free season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme.
• Discount shopping scheme at hundreds of retailers across the UK.
• Discretionary Funded Training Programs.
• Employee Awards based on performance and length of service.
• Fantastic opportunities to develop your career within our range of services.

Recruitment Process

At St Christopher’s we are committed to the safeguarding of all children and young people in our care. During the recruitment process you will be expected to complete an online application form to ensure we capture essential information to meet legislation, best practice and vetting requirements.

Applicants will ideally already be on the DBS Update Service; if this is not the case St Christopher's will carry out a DBS (police) check prior to starting.

Your online application must include a supporting statement addressing the criteria stated in the Person Specification.For the full Job Description and Person Specification

We advise to apply as soon as possible as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and this opportunity might be filled before the stated closing date.

It is against the law to apply for work with Children/Young People if you are barred from working in Regulated Activity and if your name is added to a Children Barred List.

All shortlisted candidates invited to interview will be asked to submit a Self-Declaration and Disclosure form which will need to be returned prior to an interview being booked.

Please note this post has a minimum age restriction of 21 for roles working directly with children and young people in line with the Equality Act ‘occupational requirement’.