Service Administrator (11082)

Barnardo's provide a range of services to help and support families across the UK, working with other organisations and professionals to enable children to have the best start in life. As a charity we help over 358,000 vulnerable children, young people, their families, and carers each year.

We are committed to realising Hertfordshire's vision for Family Centre Services through a coordinated, reactive service delivery model that responds to the needs of children and parents, providing early and effective help which enables families to develop resilience, increase independence, and enables children and young people to achieve their full potential.

For this role, the successful applicant will be responsible for ensuring that the North Quadrant Family Support team meet deadlines and complete paperwork and training as needed to  deliver the contract specifications.

You will be required to:

• Work with managers to set up and advertise job vacancies as needed.
• Ensure new staff complete relevant paperwork to obtain required clearances - e.g., ID badges, training logs, DBS clearance.
• Oversee team records to update or renew risk assessments/training.
• Record and evidence progress and achieve expected goals agreed with your line manager.
• Manage a varied workload and prioritise to meet deadlines and achieve targets.
• Attend meetings when required to take minutes and record actions.

Does this interest you? Would you like to join our friendly hardworking team?

We are looking for someone who has:

• A range of skills including flexibility, and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Good communication and problem solving skills.
• Ability to use IT systems efficiently to record information and produce reports.
• The ability to travel across the Family Centre locality - Stevenage, Hitchin, Letchworth, Baldock, Royston - when needed.

Additional Information:

Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification.  Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc. 

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and male candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.