SENA Support Worker Co-ordinator

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall / Remote Working, Glenfield, Leicestershire. LE3 8RF

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £24,708 - £25,983per annum (pro-rata for part-time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 4th November 2024

Interview Date(s): TBC

About the Role

An opportunity has arisen for a well-organised and resilient individual to join the busy and dynamic Children and Family Services Business Support Team as a SENA Support Worker Co-Ordinator, working with the busy SEN Assessment teams. The role is part of the wider Business Support Service and as such an important part of this role is to provide back up to colleagues, across service areas and to assist in handling urgent work on a day-to-day basis.

What we offer:

• Guaranteed contracted hours
• Opportunities to progress within a large public sector organisation.
• Excellent Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to staff wellbeing and counselling service.
• Access to an employee discount scheme, providing a whole host of retail discount including your supermarket weekly shop and gym membership!
• Work for an organisation which 95% of our staff say is a good employer.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• To be responsible for providing a comprehensive range of business support services both administrative and secretarial functions. Utilising good organisational skills to co-ordinate local and statutory requirements
• To create, develop and maintain information systems and processes including Microsoft office packages to produce reports
• To undertake a range of financial routines, including p-card arrangements and monitor budgets associated with service requirements.
• To be first point of contact for enquiries from schools, partners, voluntary and community organisations, agencies and members of the public, including generic inbox management on a daily basis and to communicate effectively.
• To line manage staff, including supervision, and Annual Performance Review meetings
• To be able to follow written processes and guidance provided.
• To be able to prioritise your own workload and work as part of a team.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Recognised Academic Qualifications e.g. 'GCSE', 'A' Levels, Vocational Qualification, Professional/Further Education Qualification relevant area. NVQ 2 in Business Administration or equivalent. Or equivalent level of relevant experience.
• Good computer skills, including MS Word, Excel and Access.
• Good organisational skills.
• Excellent customer care skills and a full understanding of the need to maintain confidentiality
• To be able to produce accurate work to deadlines, including notes of meetings, reports and to produce documents.
• To have the ability to establish and maintain working relationships and communicate effectively with staff at all levels. Experience of supervising staff is not essential but useful.
• To have the ability to prioritise own workload and work under minimum supervision, with a flexible approach.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Rachel Condon - Business Services Manager

Email: [email protected]

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.

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