Apprentice Administrator (11887)

Salary: £19,017.00

Location: Office in Ferndown, but some home working available.

Contract/Hours: Full-Time Fixed term,18 months.

Benefits:

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 29 days PLUS bank holidays
• Up to 5 more days leave for continuous service plus the option to buy and sell leave.
• Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• A pension with a up to a 7% employer contribution rate. Plus, if you pay in to the pension you will receive life assurance cover.
• Staff discount portal with your favourite brands.
• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

The role will mainly work for Dorset Nightstop, which provides emergency accommodation for young people who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless. We have a fantastic newly created role for a care experienced candidate to join the Action for Children family. We're excited to welcome care experienced individuals to join our team to complete an apprenticeship with us.

Our apprenticeships provide an opportunity to gain workplace skills and experience in the one of the UK's largest children's charities, not only making a difference to the children and young people that we support, but to your team– all whilst also completing a Business Administration (level 3) qualification to further your education. To ensure a wide range of administrative opportunities, the successful candidate may also work with other services within our team.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

Do you have a passion for supporting young people and their families?

We are seeking a care experienced individual with good IT skills who can engage with our service users, while balancing study. You will support the Nightstop team with a variety of tasks including: inputting & monitoring data, being involved with young person participation, ensuring our leaflets/promotional materials/social marketing etc. include the views of young people.

Recruiting for Potential, Let's talk about you:

Care experienced employees bring a diverse insight, personal experience and transferable skills to a team as well as being amazing advocates and role models for the children, young people and the families we work with. We are committed to creating a safe space and a diverse culture where this knowledge and experience is welcomed and championed.

Apprenticeships are for all ages, so whether you've just left education, returning from a career break or looking for a new direction this could be the perfect opportunity!

At Action for Children, we define care experience as: People who have had previous personal experience of the care system for example they have been a child who was looked after, had a social worker, lived in a children's home or extended family members rather than birth parents.

 Who can apply:

As part of our commitment to support people with care experience into meaningful employment, education and training, these apprenticeships are open to individuals of any age, who meet our definition of being care experienced.

We particularly welcome applications from young people living in Dorset who may be starting out on their workplace journey.

How to apply:

Please read our candidates pack at the bottom of the advert, this will give you all the needs to know about this role and further advise and support on how to apply can also be found on our applicant's guide. https://careers.actionforchildren.org.uk/file/downloadfile/AFC_CLC_ApplicantGuide/PDF 

We're proud to be a Care Leaver Friendly Employer - Gold Partner. Our promise and commitment spans across all our Nations covering England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, in every department in the organisation.

Good to know.

Application Process

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Closing date: 2^nd May 2024

Interviews will be held on 13^th of May 2024

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Talent Pool

We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.

Contact: If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Wede Omu at Wede.omu@actionforchildren.org.uk.  We'll be happy to give you any support you require.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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