Administrator Note Taker - Child Protection

How You'll Make a Difference

As an Administrator/Note Taker, you will play an important role in supporting the Child Protection team and helping to ensure effective services are delivered to children, young people and families.

Working in a fast-paced environment, you will coordinate and arrange meetings, take accurate minutes and notes at confidential and sensitive child protection meetings, and ensure documentation is prepared and distributed within required timescales. Your attention to detail, organisational skills and ability to manage sensitive information will support effective decision-making and help the team deliver positive outcomes for children and families.

What You Will Be Doing

• It will be your responsibility to provide administrative support for statutory child protection meetings, ensuring all arrangement are organised effectively and in line with required processes.
• Attending meetings both virtually and in person at venues across South Gloucestershire, you will produce clear, accurate notes and high-quality records of discussions, actions and decisions.
• You will record information accurately on the central case management system and distribute minutes within statutory timescales.
• Working within a shared mailbox and internal systems, you will monitor and prioritise incoming work, ensuring documentation is complete, accurate and processed in a timely manner.

What We Need From You

• It is essential that you hold an NVQ Level 2, 3 GCSEs at grade 4 or above, or an equivalent qualification, or be able to demonstrate relevant experience in an administrative environment.
• You will demonstrate the ability to take accurate notes and produce clear, concise and professional meeting minutes.
• We are looking for someone who is confident using Microsoft Office applications to create, format and manage documents, alongside maintaining accurate records on computerised systems.
• Working on your own initiative, you will be able to organise and prioritise your workload effectively, managing competing demands and meeting deadlines within a busy service.

What You Need To Know

• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office and at home.
• You will be expected to travel to other locations across South Gloucestershire so you must have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.
• We have two full time, permanent positions and one full time, limited term contract for one year to fill.

Interviews will be held on 13th and 17th November 2026.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We invest in the careers of our people, and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Administrator - Business Support - Job Description