Business Support Specialist Safeguarding Minute Taker

Hybrid Stockport Central House (including a mixture of home working and office based in line with service requirements)

Interview Type: In person, including a minute taking test

Your Role

In this role you will see the vital work carried out by the professionals we support to keep the people of Stockport safe. Is it a very interesting area of work and Business Support have a vital part to play in this, which keeps all our team motivated to make a difference.

The role centres primarily around minute taking of safeguarding meetings in Children’s Social Care, and the administration linked to this. This will include:

• setting up the meeting
• room bookings
• sending out invites, paperwork/documents prior to the meeting
• attending and minuting the meeting
• circulating the minutes post the meeting
• updating case management system

About You

This is a demanding and challenging role, and you will need emotional resilience as often you will be listening to distressing and upsetting information.

The ideal candidate will be:

• A highly organised individual able to work to agreed deadlines.
• A confident and experienced minute taker who can take accurate and high-quality minutes, using a laptop,
• Be able to work on your own and as part of a very supportive team, you will use your initiative to ensure key work is completed to meet statutory timescales.
• Have experience of dealing with confidential and sensitive information on case management systems.
• You will be computer literate and proficient in working with standard office IT applications including MS Office.
• You will be expected to learn how to navigate in-house ICT systems to work with data and information.

You will work in the Business Support Hub supporting front line services and will therefore need the ability to build effective working relationships, work using your own initiative, be proactive and flexible with a positive, can-do attitude.

About Us

We are a friendly and dynamic business support team, working within Children’s and Adults’ Safeguarding, who take pride in everything we do to ensure our services continue to be of an excellent and high-quality standard.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

Click here to find out more about the Employee Benefits you will receive when you join our team!

If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Hilary van Deursen at hilary.vandeursen@stockport.gov.uk, to arrange an informal discussion about the role.

This post is also open as secondment opportunity for Stockport Council Employees, however, you must seek the permission of your current manager prior to making an application.

Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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