Service: Health and Social Care Partnership
Closing Date: Wednesday 2nd October
The Social Work Admin Service delivers administrative support to front line Social Work teams within the Argyll and Bute HSCP. We have a full time, permanent admin support worker vacancy within our Adult Care area team based in Oban and the Isles which is ideally suited to someone with good organisational, IT and admin skills. This position will be office based at our Soroba Road complex in Oban.
This position will, as part of the local admin team, provide high quality admin support to the local Social Work Community team (including mental health, home care, care homes, adult protection and disability) who deliver agreed outcomes for local adults.
The main responsibilities of this role include:
1. Minute taking and meeting support
2. Office reception
3. Monitoring team Email mailbox enquiries
4. Processing invoices and orders
5. Updating electronic service user records
Candidates for this role require to have:
6. A good basic education
7. Excellent IT skills including Microsoft office applications
8. Experience of office administration
9. Understanding of confidentiality and data security
10. An internal system check undertaken in order to access Social Work databases. A PVG check may also be required where there is regular contact with adults from the community.
The Social Work Admin Service as part of Argyll and Bute Council and the HSCP can offer opportunities for career progression, flexible working, training and development.
Our vision is: to deliver efficiency, quality and consistency, with a staff group that is flexible, skilled and motivated and committed to achieving Social Work Outcomes
Leadership Values:
COURAGE
COMPASSION
RESILIENCE
Service Values:
COMMITTMENT
PROFESSIONALISM
APPROACHABLE
FLEXIBLE
Argyll and Bute Council recognises the numerous benefits of a positive work-life balance to the wellbeing and productivity of our employees. We will take a flexible first approach to requests from our employees to change the way that they work. While we must balance such requests with the need to ensure the quality of the important services we deliver is not compromised, we will ensure that each request is given careful consideration with a view to achieving a positive outcome wherever possible.
Applicants should note that:-
11. Happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.
12. This post is suitable for job share.
13. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act ( Exclusions and Exceptions ) (Scotland) Order, as amended, applies to this post.
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