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• Provide assistance and guidance to others involved in time keeping activities.
• Review, interpret and apply administrative guidelines applicable to project operations.
• Maintain accounting data on all travel made by project personnel and provides reports as required.
• Ensure payroll documentation is compliant with regulations and local policy.
• Prepare responses to correspondence which are of administrative or financial interest.
• Coordinate training requirements throughout the year with the District Training Officer.
• Monitor and maintain ongoing overview of the office's financial situation and keeps the supervisor informed.
• Maintain purchase credit card, buy supplies and materials, and receive all purchases and monitors funding and invoices.

• Provide assistance and guidance to others involved in time keeping activities.
• Review, interpret and apply administrative guidelines applicable to project operations.
• Maintain accounting data on all travel made by project personnel and provides reports as required.
• Ensure payroll documentation is compliant with regulations and local policy.
• Prepare responses to correspondence which are of administrative or financial interest.
• Coordinate training requirements throughout the year with the District Training Officer.
• Monitor and maintain ongoing overview of the office's financial situation and keeps the supervisor informed.
• Maintain purchase credit card, buy supplies and materials, and receive all purchases and monitors funding and invoices.

The Opportunity

Salary: £46,731 - £49,746 per annum, inclusive of 2024/2025 pay award
Working Pattern: Full-time, 37 hours per week

Location: Your office base will be County Hall, Chichester and a typical week will combine homeworking with attendance at the office. This is led by the needs of the service.

As a high calibre finance professional, you'll be used to working with big numbers. Are you ready to use your financial acumen and professional finance business partnering skills to make a difference to the residents of West Sussex?

We're looking for a finance professional who is qualified, with experience to deliver a finance business partnering model, which includes a full range of high quality financial management and accountancy services to clients. You will be responsible for advising and influencing the service to make informed financial decisions, which will have a direct impact on service delivery.

The role will involve working with Adult Social Care budgets. The service is experiencing a period of unprecedented change, where people are living longer resulting in significant growth in demand for social care services. Since we want to make sure West Sussex is a great place to live, the County Council recognises this challenge and has an ambitious improvement programme. At the heart of this is an aim to promote independence by enabling people to stay healthier and live in their homes and communities for longer. Linking financial data with performance information, and with a naturally enquiring mind, you will play an essential role in supporting the service to build a sustainable model for delivering adult social care services.

If you are looking for a diverse and exciting role which offers the opportunity to build collaborative relationships with the service, develop your talent and support senior officers by offering constructive challenge, assurance, recommendations and innovative solutions to add value to their service, then we would like to hear from you.

What experience and skills are we looking for?

As well as being a finance professional with experience of delivering a finance business partnering model, you will also need to be a:

• Strategic thinker - someone who can think independently and beyond the surface of a task/ issue to provide a strategic view and added value to the service that you support.
• Relationship manager - someone with the ability to successfully manage key client relationships.
• Critical friend - someone with the ability to challenge, persuade, negotiate and influence the service that you support.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme, employers pension contribution at 19.70%
• generous holiday entitlement of 30days plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy additional leave
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00881.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Laura Hardie at with the relevant reference number above. For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

The West Sussex approach puts the child first. We work with children, families, communities, our partners and schools in a restorative, strength-based way. Strong relationships are at the heart of what we do.

Operating within the Children, Young People and Learning Directorate, you will be expected to have a good understanding of how local, regional, and national education, health and social care markets operate and the ability to identify and manage opportunities and risk.

Please view the National House Projects Youtube page for further information around what a House Project is - The National House Project - YouTube

Salary: £35,235 - £37,938 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time (37 hours)

Contract Length: Permanent

Location: Countywide travel may be required - based at Bridge House Worthing (opportunity for hybrid)

As a House Project Facilitator, you will be providing direct support to approximately 12 young people we care for who are over the age of 16 who have been referred to the House Project.

The aim of project is to provide independence and support to young people. Over a period of around a year, the project members will develop their life skills, community skills and independence to live their lives, achieve their aspirations, be a good neighbour and manage a tenancy. Ongoing support will also be provided to young people who graduate from the House Project.

You'll need to be able to work tenaciously, flexibly and in an entirely solution-focused and empowering way. This will be a physically active role, and you'll be regularly involved in various group activities with young people. You will also need to be able to drive to various locations around the county.

Experience and Skills

Key Skills:

• Developed communication, interpersonal and influencing skills in a variety of contexts with young people.
• Ability to form positive relationships with young people which facilitate positive personal development.
• Ability to work collaboratively and to build effective relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to negotiate with external stakeholders and with the young person e.g. around housing options and housing provisions.
• Ability to work effectively on your own initiative, manage your own time and achieve challenging outcomes to tight deadlines.
• Good problem solving and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex information and plan accordingly.

Qualifications and experience:

• Relevant degree, or equivalent qualification or experience, demonstrating that level of applied knowledge in providing advice and support to young people.
• Have an understanding of the social, emotional, safeguarding and practical challenges facing the young people we care for and care leavers.
• An understanding of child development, the impact of trauma and experience of working with vulnerable young people to an agreed practice framework.
• Clear understanding of the legal framework for children and young people who are looked after.
• Clear understanding of safeguarding and ability to assess situations for and with young people, managing and referring on appropriately.
• Demonstrate previous successful experience of working with young people, who have faced difficult circumstances.

Rewards and Benefits

For a full list of the benefits, you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05460.