Panel Administrator – Yate

Overview

How you’ll make a difference

As a Panel Administrator for the Fostering team, you will provide detailed and accurate administration support to Fostering Panels, ensuring that records and reports are up to date. Your work helps the wider People Department to deliver the best possible services to those in the community who may need it the most.  

What you will be doing

• It will be your responsibility to provide an accurate administrative service to the team, ensuring work carried out is efficient and procedures are effectively followed.
• Working with partners and professionals, you will arrange and plan meetings, including fostering panel meetings and ensure invites are sent out in a timely manner and relevant documentation is circulated to the right people in a secure way.
• It will be key for you to attend regular monthly meetings that are confidential and sensitive such as Fostering Panels. You will record accurate minutes and take notes to update computer systems and distribute documents to a high standard within given deadlines.
• By ensuring your guidance is clear and concise, you will support customers with service processes and procedures, escalating specific concerns or queries if necessary.
• You will accurately record, collate, and maintain records and analyse information to ensure accurate statements are produced and data is retrieved from computerised systems and interpreted.
• Using our financial system, you will make payments to panel members.

What we need from you

• It is essential you hold 3 GCSEs (grade 4 or above) including maths and English or have an equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience in office administration.
• We require you to take and type accurate minutes of meetings, with the skill to format documents to a high standard.
• You will be able to prioritise your own workload, work on your own initiative and meet deadlines.
• Given the elements of this role, you will be able to use databases, run reports, analyse data and present your findings. 

What you need to know

• This is for a limited term contract, due to end 31st December 2026.
• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Badminton Road and working from home.

 

Interviews will be held on Friday 7th November 2025.

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 value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in 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: Panel Administrator Fostering – Job Description

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