Team Administrator

Gloucestershire County Council; Stroud; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

LGPS pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Gloucestershire County Council is seeking a Team Administrator to support the Stroud Permanency Teams at Redwood House in Stroud. The role focuses on providing high-quality administrative support to Children in Care and Care Leavers, processing financial documents, and ensuring timely funding for families.

You will use Word, Excel, and Teams daily, with training provided for Liquid Logic. A flexible, communication-driven approach is essential to meet deadlines in a busy Children’s Services

Qualifications

• Excellent IT and communication skills.
• Flexible approach with ability to manage workload and meet deadlines.
• Willingness to provide high level admin support to the Permanency Social Care Teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality comprehensive administration support to the teams.
• Deal with telephone enquiries, take messages and alert social work staff.
• Prepare documents using Microsoft Word.
• Update spreadsheets using Excel.
• Book meetings using Microsoft Teams and the internal room booking system.
• Process finance requests.
• Upload documents to the Liquid Logic database (training will be provided).

Skills

IT skills

Communication skills

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Teams

Job description

This is a Gloucester County Council job.

• Job Title: Team Administrator
• Job Location: Redwood House
• Salary: £27,274 - £28,608 per annum
• Hours per Week: 37.00
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 25/10/2026
• Job Requisition Number: 15046
• This post is not open to job share

Would you like to work in a role which is both meaningful and rewarding, where you really feel that you make a difference?

About Us

This is a great time to join Gloucestershire County Council, as Children's Social Care is on an exciting journey, which focuses our approach into being more creative, strengths-based and person-centred, to ensure that we work together to 'Make a Difference' to our local communities. We are an agile working organisation with a combination of office-based working and working from home (essential equipment is provided). We place a high premium on diversity and inclusion, as well as on health and wellbeing and we offer a flexible working scheme which is based on business need. We offer Continued Professional Development and will support you to develop your skills and career prospects within Children's Services.

About The Role

We are looking to recruit an additional team administrator to support the Stroud Permanency Teams in Redwood House in Stroud. These teams work within Gloucestershire County Council's Children's Services, with a focus on Children in Care and Care Leavers. We have 4 Stroud Permanency Social Care Teams, comprising of Team Manager's, Social Workers and Leaving Care workers, who support children who enter care who can then transition into our Leaving Care Teams, on a journey towards independence.

Your role would be to support the Stroud Leaving Care teams with a variety of administrative tasks, process financial documents to ensure children, young people and their families receive the necessary funding as required, whilst providing good customer service in person and on the telephone. Duties will include:

• Providing a high-quality comprehensive administration support to the teams
• Dealing with telephone enquiries, taking messages and alerting social work staff
• Preparing documents using Microsoft Word
• Updating spreadsheets using Excel
• Booking meetings using Microsoft Teams and our internal room booking system
• Processing finance requests
• Uploading documents to our bespoke database Liquid Logic (training will be provided)

About You

We are looking for someone who would like to join our Stroud Permanency Children's Social Care teams, where the work is varied, and interesting, no two days are the same! We would like you to have excellent IT and communication skills and be able to demonstrate a flexible approach with an ability to manage your workload to meet deadlines. If you would enjoy providing high level admin support to our Permanency Social Care Teams, and you feel this is a role for you we look forward to hearing from you. Why are you perfect for this role and what will you bring to our team?

About Us

For all your hard work, you will receive the following;

• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• Plus, an option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro-rata for part-time staff)
• Family friendly employer offering benefits to help support you and your family
• Career development and qualification opportunities
• Supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
• An in-house Occupational Health service
• Employee discount scheme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network. Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply)

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Team Administrator - Job Profile

Due to the number of applications we received, we are unable to provide feedback at shortlisting stage and reserve the right to close the advert early.

Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.

The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have a right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer. / The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a 'customer facing role' must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire's diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.