Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade C. SCP 5 £25,583 - SCP 6 £25,98
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Various locations across the borough
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
Tameside Adult Services has gone through an exciting period of change through the development of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams. This has involved close partnership working with all agencies across the neighbourhood to provide sub threshold support around prevention and wellbeing and sign posting to available information, advice and resources across the local neighbourhood.
Tameside Adult Services are looking to appoint to business support posts in one of our neighbourhood teams. These bases are at Selbourne House; Ashton Primary Care Centre; Denton Town Hall and Dukinfield Town Hall. The ideal candidate is someone who is energetic and highly motivated. These roles are a critical part of teams who are key to representing the face of Adult social care to the public, particularly around long term support for people as adults or carers who are receiving care and support.
About You
The ideal candidate should be able to take information from service users and carers, to provide information and advice or signposting to a range of community and voluntary sector organisations and services if appropriate. Being able to understand service user and carers needs are pivotal to the role and ensure the appropriate action is taken or relevant, concise and appropriate information is passed on to the correct teams. Alongside this, you will be supporting administrative processes such as creating and updating spreadsheets; undertaking redaction work; invoices; equipment maintenance. The role also involves producing agendas; minute taking of team meetings; multidisciplinary meetings and safeguarding meetings.
The role requires an excellent understanding and utilisation of Microsoft packages; i.e. Excel; Word; Outlook and Powerpoint applications. You will also use an Adult Services System and a telephone system.
The work itself is varied and can at times be pressured, so the ideal candidate will need to have good time management skills and be used to working to deadlines and pressures. The role involves having minute taking experience; good administration/IT skills to support the needs of the business.
The post holders would also support and work as part of a business support team across localities in Tameside.
About Us
Message from Stephanie Butterworth, Director of Adults Services at Tameside Council.
‘’ I’ve worked here for many years now and I’m proud of the work that we do together, ensuring people in our borough are living a good life.
‘‘Our vision is one which sees people living well in the place they call home, where they are supported to be a part of their local communities to live long, healthy and fulfilled lives.
‘’One way I regularly connect and listen to our workforce is through my monthly staff drop-in with our Principal Social Worker. This is an opportunity to create dedicated time for staff to share ideas, team updates and network across our services. It’s amazing to hear during sessions that they really value being part of Team Tameside and the opportunities that we bring, so we can make sure that they are part of delivering our ambition for the people we support.
‘’Working in Adult Social Care is a rewarding and fulfilling career choice, where you can really make a difference to people’s lives every day. We will support you to develop and fulfil your potential and create space for you to reflect and grow. We are dedicated to breaking barriers, so our workforce is rich with experience and understanding, always building and championing social justice, equity, diversity and inclusion.
People are always at the heart of everything we do, if our vision sounds like something you want to be part of, we offer a warm welcome to join us here at Team Tameside. ‘’
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.
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.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 2512 or nicola.thewlis@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: 001136