Looked After Childrens Team Administrator

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to become a part of the Looked After Children's Team in Barking & Dagenham.  Working with the wider Children's Service in B&D to support the needs of our children.  Working alongside the local authority and ICB to support the LAC team.  Support the arranging and booking of Initial Health Assessments and Review Health Assessments.  Liaising with LBBD and with external local authorities that place children in our area, for paperwork, reports and information sharing if a child has been moved.

There will be opportunities for self-contained projects on behalf of the LAC health team to support the health needs of children in care and those leaving care.   To support the team in making suggestions to improve processes to streamline approaches within the team and wider network.

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills - being able to present your work to the team and wider network.  Be able to collate data to present at specific meetings for Looked After Children.

You will need to be able to deal with the unpredictable workload whilst also being able to respond to interruptions appropriately.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for providing a responsive and efficient administrative service to meet the needs of the team.  You will use your reason, intellect and judgement to work independantly using your initiative to deal with matters on behalf of the manager and leadership team.

Provide comprehensive administrative support to the team to ensure the smooth running of the service, with an awareness of the need for absolute confidentiality at all times.

Respond appropriately to all forms of communication for other professionals & organisations in a timely manner.  Use own initiative to ensure that all urgent and non-urgent enquiries are dealt with promptly and/or escalated where required to team members, Named Nurse for LAC and Clinical Lead Nurse.

Be able to process the relevant paperwork for IHA's and RHA's as well as movement forms of children moving placements.

Be able to use Microsoft Office packages such as Outlook, Excel, Word and other databases effectively and efficiently.

Be responsible where appropriate to arrange meetings, colating agenda's, referral information and minute taking.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will work alongside the administrative team members, the nursing team, Named Nurse for LAC, Clinical Lead Nurse and wider leadership team within Children's Service in B&D.

To work with the other teams within the wider Children's Service including the CAMHS team to support the meeting of children's needs who are in care.

Ensure that any Single Point of Access referrals coming in to the service that indicate a child is in care are reviewed in a timely manner and escalated as appropriate.

Have an understanding of the Statutory responsiblities for children in care from a Health perspective and that of local authorities.