About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
About the Role
To support in leading and managing in the provision of high-quality administration and systems, that support Children’s Services. This includes working closely with the Head of Service, Service/Team Managers, multi-agency staff/partners, children and their families, contributing to the overall strategic development of the service.
Ensure that all aspects of the administration service are managed and assist in establishing joint working across the teams and services. Line manage the Business Support staff and manage the statutory central administrative systems and procedures, ensuring implementation to deliver effective and quality support to Children’s Services, providing core and nuanced support.
Be responsible for the day to day oversight of the administration of the systems and processes, such as KPIs and service performance.
Support other managers through all operational activities in ensuring that all the team contribute to the provision of a professional, client needs-led service. Lead on supporting the BSOs to deliver a high-quality Business Support service.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
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About You
Skills required:
Management and leadership skills
Minute taking skills
Strong written and communication skills
Ability to work under pressure and respond effectively to rapidly changing priorities and deadlines
Experience of staff supervision and/or evidence of training and learning in supervisory skills and techniques