Compliance Administrator

Thetford, Norfolk
Compass Fostering
About The Role

Are you passionate about making a positive and lasting difference to children and young people?

Are you an enthusiastic administrator looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to work for a progressive children’s service with ambitious plans for the future? If so, we want to hear from you!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate person to join our successful team that is reflective and creative in practice. Working collaboratively with all stakeholders you will strive to ensure that the children and young people in our care reach their full potential.

You will work from our Thetford office; however, you may be required to travel in your role to support the business within your region, which can be for a variety of reasons including office cover, training and meetings.

We are looking for a committed member of the team who would like to work within a children’s service offering fostering, residential and education services to children and young people. You will:

Support the organisation in ensuring that the service is run in line with the Government Legislation, Regulations and Standards, together with the Inspecting Body.
Represent Compass Fostering Vision and Values, whilst developing and providing a comprehensive and flexible administration service to all stakeholders.
Have a willingness to understand fostering regulations, child care law and safeguarding issues.
Be a strong team player and be able to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Attend meetings as required and ensure accurate minutes/notes are produced.
Be able to answer incoming telephone calls in a professional and friendly manner.
Be proficient in using Microsoft Word and Excel and have a willingness to learn the use of our in-house databases.
Have an ability to work under pressure and priorities your workload whilst remaining calm and professional.
Previous administrative experience is preferred for this role.

We are looking for applicants who possess a real drive and share our vision, in return we offer a competitive salary, contributory pension scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and an additional aday off for your birthday! As well as opportunities for career development.

The recruitment process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce and contains robust vetting procedures. The successful applicants will be appointed subject to satisfactory references. Please note that Compass reserves the right to close this vacancy early upon receipt of sufficient applications.

About Us

About Us

Compass Fostering is a part of our wider community, providing fostering, residential, educational, and therapeutic services for the young people in our care.

We are a progressive, child-centred service, putting the wellbeing of our children and young people at the front and centre of everything we do.

We are proud to offer good and outstanding services in all of our regions across England and Wales, championing our staff teams who help us towards these outcomes.

Compass are a values-based children’s service, meaning that everything we do is underpinned by our REACH approach. It stands for Resilience, Education, Acceptance, Child-centred and Holistic; it’s a framework based on resilience theory, attachment theory and aspects of social pedagogy. We believe that this helps us to provide bespoke, consistent therapeutic care for each child, whilst supporting our staff and foster carers to ensure every young person has the best possible future.