Administrative Support Worker - ARB15063

The Social Work Admin Service delivers administrative support to front line Social Work teams within the Argyll and Bute HSCP. We have a part time, temporary admin support worker vacancy within our Adult Services area team based in Helensburgh which is ideally suited to someone with good organisational, IT and admin skills. This position will be office based at the Jeanie Deans Centre in Helensburgh. This position will, as part of the local admin team, provide high quality admin support to the local Social Work teams who deliver agreed outcomes for local families. The main responsibilities of this role include:

• Minute taking and meeting support
• Office reception
• Monitoring team Email mailbox enquiries
• Processing invoices and orders
• Updating electronic service user records
Candidates for this role require to have:
• A good basic education
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft office applications
• Experience of office administration
• Understanding of confidentiality and data security
• An internal system check undertaken in order to access Social Work databases. A PVG check may also be required where there is regular contact with families.
The Social Work Admin Service as part of Argyll and Bute Council and the HSCP can offer opportunities for career progression, flexible working, training and development. Our vision is: to deliver efficiency, quality and consistency, with a staff group that is flexible, skilled and motivated and committed to achieving Social Work Outcomes Argyll and Bute Council recognises the numerous benefits of a positive work-life balance to the wellbeing and productivity of our employees. We will take a flexible first approach to requests from our employees to change the way that they work. While we must balance such requests with the need to ensure the quality of the important services we deliver is not compromised, we will ensure that each request is given careful consideration with a view to achieving a positive outcome wherever possible.

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• The salary shown is the full time equivalent salary, the actual salary will be paid pro rata for the hours worked.
• The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013, as amended, applies to this post.
• This is a temporary post which may be filled on a secondment basis by an employee wishing to gain experience/career development and will be at the discretion of the employee's line manager.