About our service

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.

The service, which is provided by Virgin Care in partnership with Barnardo's, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, with staff able to reach children and families in the community; whether in one of our Family Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a family's home. This flexible and innovative new way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached.

Broad areas of support and service delivery are:

• Health Visiting
• Parenting Support
• School Nursing
• Family Health
• Resilience and Child Development
• Support for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)

Please see our website for further details www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk 

Administration Assistant â€“ This role will be predominately in the Chelmsford Area. Although there will be an expectation of some travel between sites for delivery and training will be required.

Role Requirements: Excellent Minute taking skills, highly organised individual with sound communication skills and the ability to work in a team environment and on own initiative. You will work as part of and integrated team in the Single point of contact for the service answering calls from clients and other service and triaging them to the relevant department. A large proportion of this role requires entering accurate and relevant information on to clients records through SystmOne Clinical system, process referrals in and out of the service in a professional and timely manner. This job also involves general office management and duties.

We are seeking a passionate, dynamic and experienced Administrator to join our Team.

Our teams are fully integrated consisting of Health Visitors, School Nurses, Support Practitioners, Support Assistants and Community Engagement workers.

For further details regarding this position please contact:

Lauren Perks, Senior Administrator Lauren.Perks@barnardos.org.uk

Alexandra Maguire, Admin Project Lead Alexandra.maguire@virgincare.co.uk

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.