Senior Business Support Officer – Panel & Children’s Services

Location: Preston

Permanent | Part-time | 30 hours per week | Flexi-time

SP 21 – 22/ £26,694 – £27,121 Pro Rata

Job Description and Person Specification

We have a great opportunity for an experienced administrator to join our Children’s Services business support team.

The role is primarily to ensure the provision of high quality business support to the Charity’s Children’s Services Team. The role involves arranging and taking minutes for the Adoption and Fostering Panel and monitoring and following up enquiries from prospective adopters and foster carers. Business Support is provided through the maintenance of records, use of a bespoke database (Charms), use of Microsoft Word packages and working within procedures. The successful candidate will report to the Business Support Team Manager.

Applicants will be able to prioritise tasks, have great attention to detail, be a good written and verbal communicator and have a full range of office and IT skills, including extensive knowledge of Outlook, Word and Excel.

Caritas Care offers a range of benefits including:

• 32 – 38 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Charity Sick pay
• DBS fee covered
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Birthday Leave
• Blue Light Card
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Option to buy additional leave
• Pension scheme
• Refer a friend scheme

We do not hold a sponsorship licence and can only consider applications from candidates who are legally entitled to work in the UK. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, your application will not progress.

To apply, please complete our online application form HERE!

Please note, if a high number of applications are received this post may be closed early. During the shortlisting process,the quality and presentation of your application form will be taken into consideration. Please refer to Job Description and Employee specification.

Closing date for applications:    Monday 13^th April 2026 (10am)

Provisional interview date:        Wednesday 22^nd April 2026