**Unit Coordinator
**About the Company
Service Care Solutions are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Unit Coordinator for the Fostering and Permanency team for short term cover with Hackney Council. As a Unit Coordinator, you will provide efficient and comprehensive admin support to a team of social workers whilst maintaining a high professional standard at all times, ensuring confidential and effective support is provided.
**About the Role
The Unit Coordinator will be responsible for managing competing priorities, working methodically, thinking systematically and achieving targets. You will have excellent administration and organisational skills, be able to follow instructions but also use your initiative, and have experience of creating and sustaining systems to coordinate work processes. Additionally, you will have excellent communication skills including the ability to deal with members of the public and staff in a sensitive and appropriate manner.
The successful candidate will also have the ability to understand and retain information about cases including social work interventions and the roles of different agencies in meeting their needs. You will be IT competent, with the skills necessary to work with information management systems, producing good quality data in a variety of formats. Experience in a Fostering/Permanency team dealing with DBS applications, medical forms and other checks is highly desirable.
**Key Responsibilities
- Provide efficient and comprehensive admin support to a team of social workers
- Maintain a high professional standard at all times
- Ensure confidential and effective support is provided
- Manage competing priorities and achieve targets
- Think systematically and work methodically
- Create and sustain systems to coordinate work processes
- Communicate effectively with members of the public and staff
- Understand and retain information about cases and social work interventions
- Work with information management systems to produce good quality data
- Deal with DBS applications, medical forms and other checks
**Qualifications and Experience
- Excellent administration and organisational skills
- Ability to follow instructions but also use initiative
- Experience of managing competing priorities
- Good organisational skills and the ability to create and sustain systems to coordinate work processes
- Excellent communication skills including the ability to deal with members of the public and staff in a sensitive and appropriate manner
- Ability to understand and retain information about cases including social work interventions and the roles of different agencies in meeting their needs
- IT competent, with the skills necessary to work with information management systems, producing good quality data in a variety of formats
- Experience in a Fostering/Permanency team dealing with DBS applications, medical forms and other checks is highly desirable
**How to Apply
If you are an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual with the skills and experience required for this role, please send your CV via email to or call the office to discuss on .