Quality Improvement Officer

Salary details: £34416 - £35448

Royal Greenwich Children’s Services

Children’s Safeguarding and Social Care Division

Quality Improvement Officer

One Permanent Position (35 hours)

Scale 6

Your primary role will be to provide administrative support to frontline staff. You will deal with all enquires, provide advice and guidance and signpost as appropriate. Lead on the quality assurance of data and contribute to service improvement by providing information, data, analysis, and reporting within the service. Operate flexibly as part of the business support staff group so that core business support functions are delivered. You will contribute to the development of efficient and effective business support arrangements that add value to the service provided to service users. You will be responsible for day-to-day accounting processes and carry out financial accounting tasks relating to the use of delegated budgets, including the processing and transactions of cash payments, allowances, and monitoring of invoices on in house database as directed.

A confident knowledge of IT packages is essential as well as the ability to manage your own time. You will have experience of minute taking and be able to minute meetings.

You must also appreciate the need for discretion and the importance of confidentiality, be able to work flexibly as part of a team and on your own initiative.

This is a hybrid position, split between remote working and the council offices, currently based at Woolwich.

If you are short listed you will be invited to take a test where your note taking and excel skills will be tested separately. Those successful will then be invited to attend an interview.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and a DBS Disclosure will be undertaken on the successful person before appointment is confirmed.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Amanda Lynch ;    amanda.lynch@royalgreenwich.gov.uk     0208 921 4474  

Safer recruitment: Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

Standard DBS: This role requires a Standard DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

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