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Barnardo's

Service Administrator (part time)

Liverpool£26,164 per yearPart-timeClosing 28th September 2026
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About the role

Service Administrator: Barnardo's Action With Young Carers Liverpool (part time)

Do you want to m ake a difference to Families?

Barnardo's Action With Young Carers Liverpool are looking for a friendly, organised Administrator to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in supporting children, young people and families by providing a welcoming administrative support for our service and its users.

About Us

  • We support Young Carers (5-18) & Young Adult Carers (18 - 25) who care for another adult
  • We work closely with services across Liverpool City Region to ensure access to inclusive respite/activities and additional support
  • We are passionate about inclusion, safeguarding and positive experiences

Location

  • 109 Eaton Road, West Derby, Liverpool, L12 1LU
  • The post is office base only

Working pattern:

  • 21 hours per week over 3 days (to be confirmed with successful candidate). Annual leave & bank holidays pro rata
  • Hours work around service need

Key Responsibilities:

  • Supporting budget preparation and monitoring income/expenditure
  • Processing invoices, petty cash balancing and raising purchase orders
  • Maintaining financial records and preparing reports
  • Purchasing goods/services and reconciliation of company credit card expenditure
  • Supporting recruitment administration including processing of DBS applications and onboarding
  • Support/oversee minuting of meetings/take notes
  • Maintaining records in line with GDPR requirements

What we're looking for:

The successful candidate will make the below skills & experience clear in their written application:

  • Well-developed numeracy and literacy skills at a level which will enable post holder to perform moderately difficult calculations and produce reports.
  • Proven substantial office experience.
  • Proven substantial experience of using IT packages including word processing, spread sheets, databases, Windows applications.
  • Experience of operating financial systems including petty cash, budget monitoring and control.
  • Experience of premises/facilities management.
  • Ability to manage a varied workload with competing priorities in an adaptable way
  • A collaborative team colleague with excellent organisational skills.

Is this you?

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact while developing your career in a supportive and purpose-driven environment, we'd love to hear from you!

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

When completing your application, please clearly link your skills, knowledge and experience to the Person Specification and Job Description including Additional Information sheet, with an understanding of the service context described.

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, 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.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

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 require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

  • 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:23704
  • Job Title:Service Administrator (part time)
  • Location:Liverpool
  • Locality:Merseyside
  • Contract type:Permanent
  • Hours:21
  • Salary:£26,164 FTE (£15,157 pro rata)
  • Closing Date:28 September 2026
  • Interview Date:TBC

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