Administration Assistant

Service Objectives

The Nuneaton Children and Family Centre's support children and their families to enable them to thrive, achieve, develop, and to build a resilience to cope with life.

Roles and responsibilities specific to this post

Working as part of an admin team you will be responsible for ensuring the administrative support to the Nuneaton Children and Family Centre's is provided in an efficient and effective manner.

The post holder will mainly be based at the Camphill Children and Family Centre, but the role may also include regular work at other locations in Nuneaton e.g. Riversley Park Children and Family Centre. The location of work will be subject to service needs: to be able to travel to any of the Nuneaton Children and Family Centres is therefore a requirement of the role. For these reasons access to your own transport may be desirable but not essential.

The regular work pattern for this part-time post will generally be over 4 days between the hours of 8.30am-5pm, Mon - Fri. With a requirement to work at least one Saturday a month. Flexibility to occasionally work evenings would also be desirable but not essential.

You will work as part of a dedicated, professional, and friendly team to help improved outcomes for children and families. This is a busy and varied role, and our admin team are the first point of contact in our Centre's.

• Do you have a warm and welcoming manner? Can you be empathetic?
• Can you communicate clearly, confidently, and respectfully with members of the public and professionals alike?
• Do you have good attention to detail? Could you input information accurately and efficiently?
• Can you work with care to ensure personal information is kept confidential?
• Do you have good IT skills? Experience of creating posters, leaflets, desktop publishing, or experience of managing social media are also desirable.

If this sounds like you, we would really like to hear from you. We are looking to appoint a person who has admin or reception duty experience but will also consider candidates who can demonstrate they have the skills and knowledge to fulfil the role.

For more information about the post please email angela.edwards@barnardos.org.uk

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

• Reference number:22673
• Job Title:Administration Assistant
• Location:Nuneaton
• Locality:Nuneaton Locality
• Contract type:Permanent
• Hours:16 - 18.5
• Salary:£24,651 (FTE)
• Closing Date:12 April 2026