Hours: 22.5 per week (Working pattern to be negotiated)
Base: Staffordshire - base to be confirmed / hybrid working
The Social Work Learning Academy are looking for a Business Support Assistant to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of an expanding team supporting our social care and core support improvement workforce to be best that they can be and playing a key part in the continuing expansion and development of the Social Work Learning Academy.
You will be required to undertake general office duties, be responsible for inputting data, data cleansing, maintaining records, maintaining the IT system, supporting meetings, managing a central mailbox as well as providing support to the social work teams. A strong sense of teamwork and commitment to maintaining high standards is essential to this position.
All posts require suitable candidates who possess a good standard of literacy and numeracy, good communication and interpersonal skills, IT skills, including well developed data entry skills and working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word and Excel, ability to multitask and prioritise own workload.The Social Work Learning Academy is hosted within MPFT but is jointly run in partnership with Staffordshire County Council and is at the heart of the social care profession supporting the Adult Social Care, Safeguarding and Core Support & Improvement workforce across North and South Staffordshire with staff learning and development and providing an overall governance of all adult social care practice across the Trust and the Local Authority.
MPFT offers a comprehensive induction and support package with your wellbeing and career development in mind. You will be auto enrolled into the Social Work Learning Academy membership, supporting workforce career development and aspirations, with strong leadership and support in place encouraging you to be the best that you can be.
We are a forward thinking Trust and understand that your work and life balance need to complement each other to promote your enhanced wellbeing and for us as an employer to get the best out of you. We are open to negotiate flexible working options together with a mix of blended working arrangements to allow base and remote working. The Trust are committed to listening to our employees to effect change in working practices/arrangements and packages offered in response to the ever changing social and economic environment in which we work.
The post holder will be expected to behave in a way that is clearly aligned to the Partnership Trust values of:We put quality firstWe focus on peopleWe take responsibility