Portsmouth (On-Site)
Permanent, Part time
Basic DBS check required
£10,000 - £14,999
PARTTIME
Salary: Band 6, £13,036 to £14,888 per annum pro-rata for part time (£26,073 to £29,777 FTE)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time (18.5 hours per week), Wednesday mornings, Thursday and Friday full days, flexible hours - exact details can be discussed at interview
Closing date: Sunday 13 October 2024, 23:59
Interview date: Tuesday 12 November 2024
Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. It is also committed to promoting quality childcare across the city that works to improve outcomes for children.
Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children’s Board safer recruitment procedures.
Why come to live and work in Portsmouth?
Portsmouth is a great waterfront city and a vibrant place to live and work. It is an island city with an “inner city” feel, a seaside location packed with attractions and events, and the advantage of fantastic countryside on its doorstep. With fast road and rail links to London, Brighton and major airports, and ferry links to Europe, it is the perfect place to live and work. Portsmouth has a strong history of partnership working and has successfully integrated several local services.
The Service:
The Access and Entitlement Team is a specialist team providing a Free School Meals Traded Service to schools and monitoring the finance associated with children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. We work with parents both in responding to their queries and supporting them through the processes associated with entitlement to home to school transport and free school meals.
Your New Role:
You will assist with the administration and promotion of the Free School Meal service, and with the administration of financial contributions and recoupment for home to school transport and with SEN funding to schools and other local authorities. You will provide front line advice and assistance to parents/carers and schools who may visit main reception and via telephone, email and posted correspondence in relation to applications for home to school transport.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
What you'll need to succeed:
You have successful experience of working in a high-level administrative role. You have excellent written, oral, interpersonal communication and networking skills, and excellent numeracy and literacy skills with an understanding of finance and budgets. You have a customer-focussed approach and excellent attention to detail; you are accurate, proactive, and can work flexibly individually and as part of a team. You can work with minimal supervision and use your own initiative to make immediate decisions, and you can prioritise your workload and work under pressure. You have a resilient nature and can dealing with high volumes of complex work including being customer-facing with families sometimes facing adversity. You have a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, and awareness of Data Protection, GDPR and safeguarding.
Please read the job profile for the full details of this role.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
What you'll get in return:
We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:
- Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
- A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
- Flexible working options including hybrid working with a minimum of two days office based per week pro rata, giving you the flexibility to work up to three days at home every week. Hybrid working is dependent on the role and service needs, exact details will be discussed with you at interview.
- Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
- Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
- Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
- Discounts on a wide range of goods and services – access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/
Additional Information:
The full job profile is attached here.
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Julie Sabiston, Access and Entitlement Officer, Julie.Sabiston@portsmouthcc.gov.uk, 023 92 834 954
A commitment to our values:
We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.
Application process:
How to complete your application: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/how-to-apply/
We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
Please submit both a CV and a cover letter/personal statement. Remember to demonstrate in your cover letter/personal statement why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' section of the full Job Profile, using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.
If you upload a CV without a cover letter/personal statement, it is unlikely that your application will be successful.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Please note that we may shortlist as we receive applications, so this advert may close earlier than the given date.
We look forward to speaking with you soon.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.