Job Description

You will support the service’s overall aims by providing high quality clerical and financial admin support including making contact with customers in receipt of direct payment. You are also responsible for maintaining records, the financial system used to track service users’ direct payments.

Your work supporting a vital social work service will contribute towards improving quality of life for our children and young people with disabilities.

We will offer you:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements and the opportunity to work from home.
• Smarter Working with new modern technology.
• A positive, nurturing and collaborative work environment built on trust.
• Excellent transport links to the rest of the capital.
• Permanent and stable senior leadership with a consistent vision.
• Wellbeing service, leisure and discount benefits (Council scheme).
• Travel season ticket loan, cycle scheme, Local Authority pension.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

We are looking for a candidate with previous experience in a similar financial admin or complex clerical support role. You are highly numerate and are confident working with numbers; you are confident learning and using new systems. You will have strong organisational and data analysis skills in order to be able to help us assess and work with service users by managing Direct Payments effectively. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to work collaboratively with staff across the service and build relationships with a wide range of partners externally in addition to within the organisation. You have a ‘can do’ attitude and are flexible in your approach to work.