Business Support Specialist Safeguarding Minute Taker
Stockport Council
Business Support Specialist Safeguarding Minute Taker
Scale 4 (£26,403 - £28,142)
37 Hours, Full Time
Permanent
Hybrid - a mixture of home working and Stockport Town Centre office based in line with service requirements
Application Deadline: 11th September 2026 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 15th September 2026
Interview Date: 1st & 2nd October 2026
Interview Type: Face-to-face interview and minute taking test.
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Your Role
This is a full-time, permanent position supporting the administration and minute taking of Child Protection Conferences for the Children’s Safeguarding Unit and / or the minute taking of Adult Safeguarding meetings for Adult Social Care. Our offices are based in Stockport’s civic complex, with the opportunity of hybrid working both in the office and from home to meet service need.
In this role you will see the vital work carried out by the professionals we support to keep the people of Stockport safe. Is it a very interesting area of work and Business Support have a vital part to play in this, which keeps all our team motivated to make a difference.
The role centres around minute taking of safeguarding meetings, either in Children’s or Adults’ Social Care, and the administration linked to this.
Training and support will be provided to the successful candidate; however, previous experience in a Social Care or minute taking role are preferable.
About You
You will be a confident and experienced minute taker who can take accurate and high-quality minutes of safeguarding meetings, using a laptop. This is a demanding and challenging role, and you will need emotional resilience as often you will be listening to distressing and upsetting information.
Working on your own and as part of a very supportive team, you will use your initiative to ensure key work is completed to meet statutory timescales. Part of your role will be to organise Child Protection or Adult Safeguarding meetings and enter and retrieve confidential and sensitive information on case management systems.
You should be computer literate and proficient in working with standard office IT applications including MS Office. You will be expected to learn how to navigate in-house ICT systems to work with data and information.
You will work as part of the Business Support Hub working with front line services and will therefore need the ability to build effective working relationships, work using your own initiative, be proactive and flexible with a positive, can-do attitude.
About Us
We are a friendly and dynamic business support team, working within Children’s and Adults’ Safeguarding, who take pride in everything we do to ensure our services continue to be of an excellent and high-quality standard.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Kerry Carrigan at kerry.carrigan@stockport.gov.uk or Hilary van Deursen at hilary.vandeursen@stockport.gov.uk, to ask any questions or to have an informal discussion about the role.
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