Contract Assistant

Role Responsibility

The Total Placement Service (TPS) Business Team is responsible for administering contracts and payments for a wide range of accommodation placements for children in care and care leavers.

The team is recruiting a Contracts Assistant to provide contracting, administrative and data support to the team and a multi-agency funding panel. The postholder will assist in the smooth running of the team taking a proactive role in relation to its day to day functioning.

You will be highly motivated, well organised with excellent communication skills, a good knowledge of a range of IT systems, and have awareness of data protection and confidentiality issues.

You will be educated to GCSE (NVQ level 2) or equivalent, have experience of business administration and be able to organise and prioritise your workload to achieve deadlines.

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

The closing date is 14th January 2021

Interviews will be via Microsoft Teams and will take place on 28th January 2021

Assessments will be emailed on or before the 28th January 2021

Contact Details

For further information about this role please contact Sue Hall, Business Coordination Manager 03000 415341 or 07712 301 962

About the Company

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.