Harm Outside the Home Project Officer

Warrington Borough Council; Warrington; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A Northern England local authority is seeking a Project Officer to provide high-quality administrative support within the Harm Outside the Home Team. The role involves collating and analyzing data to support the team's performance and communication with various stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have excellent IT, communication, and team-working skills, alongside a commitment to improving outcomes for children and families. Competitive salary and benefits included.

Benefits

26 days annual holiday (raising to 31 after 5 years)

Access to attractive and competitive benefits package

Access to Health & Wellbeing Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in a range of software plus basic data management/analysis.
• Ability to record information and actions accurately.
• Comfortable communicating with colleagues and partners at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality administrative/business support service.
• Support strategic and operational meetings relating to contextual safeguarding.
• Collate, analyse, and present data to support performance evidence.

Skills

Excellent IT skills

Experience of taking formal minutes

Excellent team-working skills

Ability to multi-task and prioritise

High-level communication skills

Flexible and able to work under pressure

Commitment to improving outcomes for children & families

Job description

The Harm Outside the Home Team within Children’s Social Care have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced admin/business support officer or project assistant wanting to expand their knowledge and experiences. We are offering a permanent Project Officer role, with an opportunity to develop systems and processes that will support the team’s performance.

The role

Providing a professional, high quality administrative/business support service within the Harm Outside the Home Team. This will include support for of a range of strategic and operational meetings across the council relating to contextual safeguarding and children at risk of exploitation.

We need you to collate, analyse and present information and data in various formats to support the Harm Outside the Home Lead in evidencing the Team’s performance and in meeting key performance indicators and service priorities.

You will work as a key part of the team, using initiative and problem-solving to support the service to achieve its objectives, including the taking of formal minutes or less formal notes of meetings where required.

As this is a brand new post, it will be an opportunity for the successful candidate to put their own stamp on the role and to help develop new processes and ways of working for the team that improve and demonstrate outcomes for the very valuable and important work they do.

Please see the job description for more detail on the role and the person specification to see if your skills and experience match what the role requires.

What's needed?

We are looking for someone with the following experience and qualities:

• Excellent IT skills with experience in a range of software plus basic data management/analysis
• Experience of taking formal minutes and recording information and actions accurately
• Excellent team-working skills
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise and organise workload despite interruptions
• High-level communication skills with a confidence to communicate with colleagues and partners at all levels
• Flexible and able to work under pressure
• Committed to improving outcomes for children & families

As well as a competitive salary, working for us means you get:

• 26 days annual holiday - raising to 31 after 5 years of service (pro-rata)
• Access to our attractive and competitive benefits package
• Access to our Health & Wellbeing Programme

Key Dates & Further Information

If you have any further questions or for an informal chat then please contact (viaemail in the first instance) – Jay Halliwell, Harm Outside the Home Lead.

The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer

Warrington Borough Council Offices, 1 Time Square, Warrington, WA1 2NT