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This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.

• Job Title: Business Admin Lead
• Job Location: Quayside House
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 11/08/2024
• Job Requisition Number: 9654
• 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 have an opportunity for an experienced business support manager to join us as a Business Administration Lead for the Social Work Academy in Children’s Social Care. The Social Work Academy is the centre for learning and development of our Children’s Social Care workforce as well as supporting new starters and recruitment pathways into social work. The successful candidate will lead on delivering all areas of business support within the Academy.

Duties will include:-

• Leadership across the administrative team of all activity which supports the Social Work Academy.
• Carry out regular 1:1’s and performance reviews with your team
• Performance management of your team
• Oversight of the Academy building
• Oversight of the admin support requirements for all Academy lead programmes
• Lead on and coordinate finance tasks for the Academy in consultation with the SWA leadership team
• Lead and provide admin oversight of programme development and delivery to the SWA leadership team
• Support the effective administration of the governance of workforce development
• Act as a lead administrative team link with recruitment on appointments and interviews and ensure effective administration support to the Academy for the ASYE and student programmes.
• In consultation with the SWA leadership Team provide administrative oversight and support for the online procedures manual Tri-X and coordinate necessary updates
• Support the review and development of processes

About You

You will have proven leadership skills and evidence of strong oversight of process and performance. The role involves direct line management of a team of Business Administrators. You will have strong IT and communication skills and be able to demonstrate a flexible approach with an ability to manage your workload to meet deadlines. You will be very organised and able to deal with competing priorities and allocate resource accordingly. If you think that this is the 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?

In return we will offer you:

• Regular formal and informal support.
• Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
• Access to relevant training and career progression.
• Annual leave of 25.5 days (pro rata) up to 30.5 days (pro rata) after 5 years employment.
• Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers.
• 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.
• 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

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Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

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.

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.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.