Secretary / Note Taker

Job title: Secretary / Note Taker (2 positions: 1 full time + 1 part-time)Location: Peterborough City CentreType: Temp jobsDuration: min 12 weeksRate: between £14 and £14.50 plus holiday = £16.04 to £16.61 per hour

1 Full time role: working 5 days per week (37.5 hours, Monday to Friday)1 Part time role: working 4 days per week (29.6 hours, flex on non-working day)

Hybrid working is available up to 3 days per week depending on business needs.

The job involves preparing, attending Child Protection meetings with the family and a group of professionals and then producing the minutes, which are set in a statutory time frame. Secretaries do not have to convene the meetings, but they do need to attend in person. It's important to know that these meetings will be regarding very sensitive and potentially upsetting information and on rare occasions could involve verbal conflict from the family parties, albeit not aimed at the secretaries as they are observers; physical altercations have not been an issue and are very unlikely to be. The meetings put actions in place with families to safeguard children where the children are deemed at risk but remain in the family home.Secretaries need to be flexible in their approach to work and availability to attend the workplace as meetings are often convened or moved at short notice due to their nature.Your new role

• Meeting preparation: managing documents, files and agenda appropriate to meeting type.
• Attend-in-in-person-and-minute, complex multiple-participant meetings.
• Set up the seating in the meeting room before the meeting commences.
• Liaise/assist the meeting Chair with managing the meeting.
• Assist the meeting Chair in booking following meetings at the time of/in meetings.
• Produce post meeting reports and letters. Write up meeting minutes within statutory timelines. Share and manage filing of documents and minutes.

What you'll need to succeedThe role requires a reasonably high level of minute-taking ability. The minutes are not verbatim, so you need to be able to follow, interpret and summarise conversations in a real-time speaking environment.Secretarial experience is essential. What you'll get in return

• A solid 12-week temp assignment at a fair rate
• Convenience and flexibility to work from home up to 3 days per week
• Strong probability of assignment extension and even the possibility of a permanent job.
• Fascinating and important work
• An opportunity to use your professional skills to literally protect children and support their families.

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