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• Title: Service Administrator
• Reference: SCC/TP/287916/3977
• Positions: 1
• Salary: 25,401 to 27,351 per annum
• Category: Administration & Clerical
• Contract type: Permanent
• Working hours: 22 hours per week
• Posted on: 2 October 2025
• Closing date: 15 October 2025
• Directorate: Partnership
• Location: Locality working in Runnymede

Description
Please note that this vacancy is not part of Surrey County Council, we are advertising this on behalf of a partnership organisation.
The salary range for this role is 25,401 to 27,351 per annum based on a 22 hour working week.
Rewards and Benefits
There are many benefits to working at Barnardo's, from offering rewarding roles which make vital differences to the lives of children, young people and their families to additional pay, leave and special discounts. Check them all out .
About the Organisation
When life gets tough or it feels like there's nowhere to turn, Barnardo's is here.
We make sure children and young people feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful, by running 760 specialist services across the UK, and campaigning to change the way the system works for the better. We've been changing childhoods and changing lives for over 150 years, and we'll be here for as long as we're needed.
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 . You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
About the Role
The successful candidate will work as part of our Surrey Family centre admin team but will be primarily based at Runnymede Family centre (currently based within Manor Farm Day Centre).
Runnymede Family centre provides holistic family support for young people and families in the Runnymede district of Surrey, helping to give children the best start in life. There are a range of services on offer at the centre for families to get the support they need at the earliest opportunity to provide a healthy, nurturing, stable environment for their children including targeted 1:1 family support , facilitation of activity sessions such as "the baby bubble" and parenting courses.
The administrator assistant role will be pivotal in supporting the day to day running of a busy office. Tasks include, but are not limited to, answering telephone calls, welcoming visitors to the service, managing diaries and event bookings, preparing audit information and reports, monitoring income and expenditure and processing invoices.
As well as providing a high level of administration support to the Service, we are looking for someone with experience in:

• Financial Administration - Income and expenditure monitoring and reporting; imprest reconciliation; invoice coding and processing.
• Practical skills in MS Office suite of applications: this includes, but not limited to Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, Dynamics 365.
• Premises and Facilities Management - Responding to visits, telephone calls and emails; assisting Managers with Health & Safety. Although the service is currently using rooms within another service, ultimately the aspiration is to have access to a dedicated premises, and at this time liaise with Properties for any repairs and maintenance to buildings;
• Service User Records Administration - for example maintaining booking lists for parenting courses.
• Marketing and promoting service activities -through the creation of marketing materials such as leaflets, posters, flyers and through social media channels as required.

Additional information
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 candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
The close date for this advert is 15.10.2025 with interviews to follow.
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• Reviewed: 03 Oct 2025

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