Service Administrator

Service Administrator Are you interested in using your administration skills to support teams that work with children and young people? The Mental Health Support Teams ( MHSTs) in the West locality team in North Cumbria are recruiting a Service administrator for 30 hours a week due to the growth of the teams. The teams work in schools offering low intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to children and young people as part of an NHS contract.

You will be working with the teams that cover Egremont, Whitehaven, Workington, Maryport, Cockermouth and Keswick. It is expected that you will be able to work from the service bases in Workington and Cockermouth on a weekly basis and the role will involve attending regular meetings in Carlisle. The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating delivery of all administrative/ data functions across the service and ensuring that consistent processes are in place for finance, data and health & safety in line with contractual and Barnardo's requirements.

You will implement new, and revise existing, systems for financial and data management across the service as required and prepare financial information dealing with, and checking income and expenditure, including payroll. Reporting to the Children's Services Manager you will support with designated work in terms of planning, development, projects, and business support tasks across the localities. The post holder will be required to compile reports as required for presentation both internally and externally and support and work with the Regional Finance Team, Health and Safety Officer to ensure that all compliance requirements and targets are met/exceeded.

There will also be Line management responsibilities as designated and you will work with, and provide support to, the Children's Services Manager to ensure all compliance requirements are met It is essential that you have:
Excellent literacy and numeracy skills at a level that enables you to perform difficult calculations and produce reports Substantial experience of using IT packages particularly MS applications

Experience of Health and Safety and premises/facilities management

Experience of financial administration You must be:
Able to work independently without direct supervision, demonstrating initiative when required. Able to delegate work effectively if applicable. Able to maintain strict confidentiality and work within data protection guidelines. Able to work effectively as a member of a team. Able to work in a thorough and systematic way, paying attention to detail. Able to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders.

Able to prioritise own workload and meet tight deadlines.

Experience of formally line managing staff is advantageous, as this role will include directly line managing staff. Benefits Workplace

Offer:

What it means for you Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these.

Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role. Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland) Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance;

we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay;

together with all family additional leave options Service related sick pay from day 1 Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension Cycle2work scheme Interest free season ticket loans Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal 20% discount at Barnardo's stores Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards…