Emergency duty service coordinator

Emergency Duty Service Coordinator

Permanent, Part Time

£25,000 Starting Salary rising to £26,530 per annum (full time equivalent)

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Fixed-base worker

Please note this is a part time position worker 18.5 per week, the pro rata salary will be £12,500 rising to £13,265 per annum. The rota for this position will be.

* Monday - 8am to 12:30pm
* Tuesday to Friday - 8am to 11:30am
* Ability to cover annual leave - shift hours forward to a 7am start.

Here in Essex, we continue to raise the bar about practice and our investment in our workforce is second to none. It's an exciting time to join us. Not only have we been named Outstanding by Ofsted, but we are also delighted and at the same time humbled to have been crowned Social Work Employer of the Year for the second time in the last three years!

The Opportunity

Children and Families is recognised as a service in which social work can develop and prosper, with a culture of collaboration, integrity, and compassion; promoting the development and wellbeing of children, young people and their families; protecting them from neglect and abuse. Working together with partners delivering a range of early help, family support and effective social work interventions which build resilience, remove barriers, and enable children and young people to look forward to a brighter future.

The Emergency Duty Service Co-ordinator will contribute to a high performing Social Care Emergency Duty Service, meeting all agreed service standards.

Based in Chelmsford, ensuring accurate information is conveyed to daytime services and updating databases and statistics regularly. The ability to use sound personal judgement and a strong working knowledge of business practice is a necessity as is the ability to deliver effective routine and complex administrative tasks.

What's in it for you?

* Wide range of learning and development opportunities
* 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + choice to buy extra
* Generous Local Government Salary related pension scheme
* Access to hundreds of discounts and benefits through Essex Rewards
* Access to our health and wellbeing support platform with Vita Health Group
* Up to 4 days per annum volunteering leave

What will you be doing?

* Responsible for daily accurate handover to daytime services within ECC
* Maintain manual and computerised records, ensuring confidentiality and efficient retrieval of information to produce high quality reports, data and a variety of statistical information.
* Responsible for providing data and statistics to stakeholders and external agencies for the purpose of agreeing services required and received from those agencies and to provide evidence of work carried out by the EDS to secure provision for out of hours services across Essex and Southend.
* Build collaborative relationships with stakeholders, internal and external partners to enable the smooth transfer of information and effective engagement.
* Admin duties as required.
* Provide cover for Advisor A/L and be able to move hours forward by 1 hour, 7am start.

The Experience You Will Bring

* Educated to RQF Level 2 (GCSE) or equivalent by experience.
* Experience of using IT packages with an extensive knowledge of Excel, Word, Outlook and other IT systems. (Training will be provided for our own database systems).
* Proven effective communication and interpersonal skills with experience of effectively resolving enquiries and escalating as appropriate.
* Ability to be an effective team member, with evidence of successfully delivering outcomes within a team.
* Evidence of building strong working relationships with stakeholders, internal and external partners, demonstrating an understanding of their needs and priorities.
* Ability to share knowledge and good practice with colleagues, highlighting new and more efficient ways of working.
* Significant experience working within an office environment, working with sensitive and/or personal information, under pressure and to tight timescales.
* Evidence of working flexibly and independently, open to new and innovative ways of working and responsive to change.

To read more about us please visit: Children & Families

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Why Essex?

Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

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