Team Clerk (Residential)

Children Services are looking to appoint a Team Clerk to work within their Residential Children's Homes.

The successful candidate will work in two of the five Children's Homes on a weekly rota and will be responsible for providing administrative support to the Manager of each home.

Duties will include: maintenance of staff records, word processing, petty cash claims, detailed note taking and ensuring all systems are kept up to date.

You must be proactive, highly motivated & organised and have the ability to work as part of a team. A good level of IT competence is needed to work with database, spreadsheets and word processing tasks on a daily basis.

You should be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate with colleagues and service users and their carers. In addition, you will be expected to participate in the development and continual improvement of this part of the service.

Although it is not essential that you have a sound knowledge of Looked after Children you must feel able to work in a child centred environment which at times can be challenging., Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.