Harm Outside the Home Project Officer - Fixed Term for 12 months

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

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated Project Officer within a forward-thinking council's Harm Outside the Home team. This temporary role allows you to enhance your administrative skills while contributing to vital support for children at risk. You will be instrumental in developing new processes that improve team performance and outcomes for families. Join a collaborative environment where your initiative and problem-solving abilities will shine. With competitive benefits and a chance to make a real difference, this is a role for someone passionate about improving lives.

Benefits

26 days annual holiday

Health & Wellbeing Programme

Competitive benefits package

Qualifications

• Experience in providing administrative/business support within a team.
• Ability to collate, analyze, and present data effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality administrative support for the HOTH team.
• Collate and analyze information to support team performance.

Skills

IT Skills

Data Management/Analysis

Minute Taking

Team Working

Communication Skills

Multi-tasking

Organizational Skills

Flexibility

Job description

Harm Outside the Home Project Officer - Fixed Term for 12 months

About us

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 temporary Project Officer role for 12 months, with an opportunity to develop systems and processes that will support the team’s performance.

The role

We are looking for somebody that can provide a professional, high quality administrative/business support service within the Harm Outside the Home (HOTH) team. This will include support for 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 HOTH 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 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.

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 Jay Halliwell, Harm Outside the Home Lead at [e-mail].

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