Service Development Administrator inChelmsford inChelmsford PUBLISHED FRI 28 MAR 2025

Join our team as aService DevelopmentAdministrator, where you'll play a vital role in supporting our senior leadership team and ensuring the seamless coordination of key operational and strategic priorities.

A key focus of this role is administering theChildrens Wellbeing Practitioner (CWP) and CYP PT training programmes, managing programme coordination, reporting, and communication. In addition, you'll provide essential administrative support, including document preparation and general office duties, to enable the leadership team to work efficiently. If you're a proactive and organised professional with a keen eye for detail, wed love to hear from you!

This is a fixed-term full time position for 12 months, working 37.5 hours per week at our County Hall base in Chelmsford.

• Provide high-quality administrative support to the senior leadership team, managing tasks, diaries, and meetings.
• Act as the first point of contact for administrative queries, ensuring timely responses.
• Administer the CWP and CYP IAPT training programmes, coordinating communication, records, and reporting.
• Prepare and distribute extremal meeting agendas minutes and follow up on agreed actions.
• Support trainee recruitment, interview scheduling, and training session organisation.
• Assist with bid and contract administration, ensuring deadlines and requirements are met.
• Coordinate the Healthy Schools grant programme, supporting school engagement and payments.
• Prepare reports, presentations, and briefing documents as needed.
• Maintain accurate records, correspondence, and documentation.
• Support general project coordination and wider administrative tasks as required.

Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.

About us

As a Service Development Administrator, youll be part of our valued team at County Hall, Chelmsford.

You will feel valued as a Service Development Administrator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £23,100 with group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

The Ideal Candidate

• Experienced in providing administrative support in a busy environment.
• Highly organised with strong time management and attention to detail.
• Confident usingMicrosoft Officeand digital systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Discreet and professional when handling sensitive information.
• Able to support meetings, including agenda preparation and minute-taking.
• A proactive team player who can also work independently.

Desirable:Experience in training programme administration, knowledge ofChildren and Young Peoples Mental Health services, or an understanding of bid and contract processes.

Flexibility may be required, with occasional travel as needed.