CYM222 Service Administrator(36.25 hpw)Valleys Locality Family Support

Full Time: 36.25 hours per week

Fixed Term

Salary: £17052 - £19987 p.a.

Merthyr MIA,
3G's Development Trust,
15 Chestnut Way
Gurnos
Merthyr Tydfil,
CF47 9SB.

RCT Cynon Family Links
Fernhill Community Links,
371 Fernhill,
Mountain Ash,
Rhondda Cynon Taf,
CF5 3EW

Please note that this vacancy is fixed term initially up until 31st March 2017 to backfill a Secondment.

History of Service
The Merthyr MIA Service and RCT Cynon Valley Links Service are borne out of Welsh Families First arrangements to provide early intervention services to children, young people and their families in order to prevent escalation of need whereby statutory intervention is necessary. Equally, to provide support services to families as part of de-escalation processes from statutory child in need/child at risk services.

The objective of the service is to be responsible for ensuring the administrative support to the Family Support Services in the Valley locality is provided in an efficient and effective manner.

To provide a flexible and responsive approach to meet the needs of the service in line with the three office demands (Fernhill, Penywaun and Merthyr Tydfil).

The responsibilities are as set out in the Job Description and Person specification as well as the following:
Provision of minute taking during internal team meetings and wider partnership meetings and Maintaining good/effective communication links with the staff team to ensure effective communication links.

The post holder would be expected to work as part of an admin team and work to support services as and where required across the locality.

This would necessitate being located at any of the locality service bases as required in order to meet admin needs and provide cover as and when required.

To apply for this post you will need to visit  www.barnardos.org.uk/jobs searching for reference CYM222 as unfortunately we do not accept CVs and all applications need to be via the Barnardo's application form found on the Barnardo's website.
When completing your application form please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please ensure you complete and return the declaration with your application (the successful applicant will be asked to sign this at a later date).

It is also very important when filling in the reference section of the application form that you ensure that you supply the referee details (including email addresses) of all your employment experience covering the last five years, please use an extra A4 sheet if required. Please also indicate any gaps of employment in the appropriate section.

If you wish to download your application form and send it via the Royal Mail or deliver by hand please send to Cymru People Team, Barnardo's Cymru, Trident Court, East Moors Road, Cardiff CF24 5TD. Tel: 029 20493387. Or email hrrecruitCYMRU@barnardos.org.uk

Please note we can only receive application forms in Word or PDF format; please do not attach application forms via SkyDrive. (CV's are accepted to support your application form ONLY).