Are you interested in using your administration skills to support teams that work with children and young people?
The Mental Health Support Teams ( MHSTs) in the West locality team in North Cumbria are recruiting a Service administrator for 30 hours a week due to the growth of the teams.
The teams work in schools offering low intensity Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to children and young people as part of an NHS contract.
You will be working with the teams that cover Egremont, Whitehaven, Workington, Maryport, Cockermouth and Keswick. It is expected that you will be able to work from the service bases in Workington and Cockermouth on a weekly basis and the role will involve attending regular meetings in Carlisle.
The successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating delivery of all administrative/ data functions across the service and ensuring that consistent processes are in place for finance, data and health & safety in line with contractual and Barnardo's requirements.
You will implement new, and revise existing, systems for financial and data management across the service as required and prepare financial information dealing with, and checking income and expenditure, including payroll.
Reporting to the Children's Services Manager you will support with designated work in terms of planning, development, projects, and business support tasks across the localities.
The post holder will be required to compile reports as required for presentation both internally and externally and support and work with the Regional Finance Team, Health and Safety Officer to ensure that all compliance requirements and targets are met/exceeded. There will also be Line management responsibilities as designated and you will work with, and provide support to, the Children's Services Manager to ensure all compliance requirements are met
It is essential that you have:
- Excellent literacy and numeracy skills at a level that enables you to perform difficult calculations and produce reports
- Substantial experience of using IT packages particularly MS applications
- Experience of Health and Safety and premises/facilities management
- Experience of financial administration
You must be:
- Able to work independently without direct supervision, demonstrating initiative when required.
- Able to delegate work effectively if applicable.
- Able to maintain strict confidentiality and work within data protection guidelines.
- Able to work effectively as a member of a team.
- Able to work in a thorough and systematic way, paying attention to detail.
- Able to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders.
- Able to prioritise own workload and meet tight deadlines.
Experience of formally line managing staff is advantageous, as this role will include directly line managing staff.
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People & Culture
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
- The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
- Service related sick pay from day 1
- Cycle2work scheme
- Interest free season ticket loans
- 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
- Reference number:22943
- Job Title:Service Administrator
- Location:Workington
- Locality:North Cumbria
- Contract type:Permanent
- Hours:30
- Salary:27,554 FTE (£22,803 pro rata)
- Closing Date:2 June 2026
- Interview Date:18 June 2026