Job Description

Contract Type

: Permanent

Salary:

Grade C. SCP 5 25,583 - SCP 6 25,989

Hours Per Week:

36hours

Base Location:

Tameside One

Assessment Date

: To be arranged

The Role

Opportunities have arisen within the Executive Support Service for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the team.


We are looking to appoint to a number of positions for individuals that have excellent organisational and communication skills to provide first class business support services to Children's Social Care Teams.

About You

The successful candidates must be proactive, be able to show initiative and have the ability to work independently but also as part of a team.


You will be responsible for providing administrative support / assistance to staff within Children's Social Care in addition in arranging, administering and attending to support various meetings as required. Excellent customer services is also an essential component of this role.


A good level of IT competence is required to work with database, spreadsheets and word processing tasks on a daily basis.

You should be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate with colleagues and service users, including the provision of a reception service to all callers offering relevant support as necessary.


In addition, you will be expected to participate in the development and continual improvement of this part of the service.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.


We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.


Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.


This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English.


Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.


We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.


Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here


For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Jeanette Stott, Executive Support Business Partner on 0161 342 2468 or email jeanette.stott@tameside.gov.uk