Caerphilly,Wales
Circa £17,700,00 Pro Rata
Hours - Part-Time, Fixed Term Contract, 28 Hours (Maternity Cover)

Making sure everything we do runs smoothly.

The role

The Caerphilly Family Intervention Team and the Gwent Wide Family Intervention Team work with children aged 5-14 years struggling with emotional regulation or behavioural difficulties, with worries or anxieties, or problems with family relationships.

As a Business Support Officer, you'll be a key member and will play a vital role in, providing high level support to the Caerphilly Family Intervention Team (FIT) and the Gwent Wide FIT Team.

You will make a difference by:

- Providing a high-quality range of administrative services across the departments.

- Undertaking some HR and Finance tasks as well as compiling data, minute taking, diary management.

- Dealing with internal and external stake holders, being responsible for your own tasks and leading on some of them.

- Ability to present a variety of information in various formats to different stakeholders within a senior level.

- Being effective, intuitive, flexible and able to work to deadlines.

- Having a willingness to learn with strong attention to detail and adhere to best practises.

- Having excellent customer service skills and being a good communicator.

- Having a sensitive approach to the work that we undertake.

You will need:

- A minimum of 2 years' experience within a similar administrative role with excellent communication skills is essential.

- Advanced IT Skills and experience of use of various IT systems including MS Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.

- Good at prioritising and meeting deadlines with excellent organisation and planning skills.

- Confident communicator, able to converse with senior professionals from a variety of backgrounds.

- Fully committed to working towards the best outcomes for children and young people.

- Proactive with a can-do attitude.

- Ability to handle sensitive data.

The way we work

We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team. Have a look at our behaviours and values to understand more about the way we work here.

Rewards

We want our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, a comprehensive employer-matched pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts on our dedicated benefits portal. Find out more about our exclusive Action for Children benefits here.

For safe and happy childhoods

At Action for Children, we protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK.

For more information, please contact Machaela Huggins on 07776 659 803 or email recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk

The closing date for applications will be 28th June 2020

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Action for Children is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce.

Guidant is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.