Minute Taker

Pertemps have an exciting opportunity for a Minute Taker to join Plymouth City Council on an ongoing temporary basis until March 2025.

Located in the heart of the City, this is a full time role working Monday - Friday 9-5 with an early finish of 4:30pm on a Friday. 

As the Minute taker, within the Children Services department, you will be required to undertake the minuting of child protection case conferences and complex strategy meetings and to note-take a variety of other meetings when required. Your role will also involve -

Taking minutes of child protection meetings and other CYP statutory meetings, and summarising information accurately to produce a high quality minute document within departmental timescales
 Supporting the independent chair in creating/updating the written child protection plan during the meeting
 Working alongside the independent chair to ensure appropriate abridgements are made for young people and family members
 Ensuring accurate recording of meeting attendees, including their contact details
 Supporting the Independent Chairs in ensuring information is securely handled during the meeting and afterwards
 Inputting data relating to the minutes accurately into the IT system 
Proactively provide suggestions to the team on measures to improve the service in terms of efficiency, customer experience and best practice
 Carry out other duties appropriate to the grade of the post

To be successful, you will need to have previous minute taking experience and the ability to sustain concentration for lengthy meetings. You must also need to possess confident literacy skills, including spelling, grammar and punctuation and have the ability to recognise significant content within discussions and summarise into a coherent record of the meetings.

Please APPLY now to avoid missing out or contact Chelsea Goodman in the Pertemps Plymouth branch for more information.