We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Administrators who will support our team of Children and Family Centres which are based in Rugby District across our three Children and Family Centres:
Claremont, Boughton Leigh and Long Lawford. You will be required to work across all three centres.
This role requires flexibility. Our Centres opening times are between Monday - Friday between 8.30-4.30pm.
The post we are seeking to fill is for 12 hours per week: Tuesdays 8.30am-4.30pm and Thursdays 12.00noon-4.30pm. Additional hours may be available when cover is needed for annual leave or sickness.
Roles and responsibilities specific to this post:
The role of the Administrator will be to provide a friendly welcome to families and colleagues coming
into the centre in person and on the phone. You would use local knowledge of the community and
early help provision to signpost families to relevant support. As a member of a wider admin team
across the district you would work together with the team to share ideas and solutions and offer a
consistent approach. You would offer this support through a variety of means including: virtual
platforms, by phone, and in person. All of our work is all about making the biggest impact during the
best window of opportunity in a child's life.
- Confident to open and close the premises, this includes as a lone worker
- There are some physical aspects to the role, for example unpacking and storing items delivered, transportation of items across centres
Job specific requirements:
It is especially important that the successful candidate is able to demonstrate experience of and/or
an understanding of the following:
- Highly proficient in all Microsoft packages
- Being able to confidently input information on a database - training will be provided
- Use of Outlook to diary meetings, room bookings with various partner agencies and schedule tasks, accuracy is essential
- Dealing with information which is highly confidential, knowledge of GDPR
- Helping to maintain mailing lists and databases
- Meeting deadlines
- Confidence in communicating effectively with both internal and external audiences and our local community
The administrator is the touchstone of the service and the first point of contact in the Children and Family Centre. You need to be confident with good communication skills. You will be exceptionally organised, ensuring that reporting systems are in place, data is collection and inputting.
The Children and Family Centre staff team includes our Administrators, Early Years' Practitioners, Volunteer Co-ordinator and our team of volunteers. We also work in partnership with a range of other services to support families including but not exclusive to Family Support Workers, Health Visitors, Midwives, Family Information Service, Parenting Project and Speech and Language therapists, who all bringing a rich mix of experience and skills to the work of each centre.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description: this should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's?values.? We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our?People & Culture?Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.? More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working.
- Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
- A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
- Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
- 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
- Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
- Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
- Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
- T&C's apply based on contract