Administrator (Home Finding)

Contract Type: Permanent

Contract Hours: 37 hours

Salary: NJC Grade E SCP12-17 £28,598 - £31,022 per annum

This post is open to employees currently On Notice/At Risk and Internal.  Please note applications from employees currently On Notice/At Risk will be given priority. On Notice/At Risk employees should complete the application form as normal, upon submission you must email the Recruitment Team – recruitment@blackpool.gov.uk to ensure that your application form is marked as priority.

We are looking to recruit a Home Finding Administrator on a full time permanent contract within the Home Finding team.

The key purposes of the role are to assist with services for Our Children. To include the day-to-day administrative support required to respond to Social Worker requests for fostering, children's home, and semi-independent living searches including liaison with Service Providers.

The role is demanding, varied and requires a flexible, 'can do' attitude. Communication skills are important as the successful candidate will be required to liaise with a wide variety of internal and external professionals. A good level of IT skills is also important as the role involves using a wide range of IT programmes. The nature of this role will also require the successful candidate to work to challenging deadlines and use their own initiative to manage the complexity of the workload in a fast paced environment.

If you are confident, aspirational and eager to support the achievement of positive outcomes for young people we look forward to hearing from you.

For full Details please see the attached Job Description.

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