Blue Car Badge Administrator, 30 hpw

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Part time
Location: South Shields
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Job offered by: South Tyneside Council
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Category: IT & Technology
Job Summary

Contract Type:

Permanent Working Pattern:

Part time Advert Start Date:

30/01/2025 Advert End Date:

14/02/2025 12:00 Salary:

£25,183 pa pro rata Hours per week:

30 Job Category:

Admin / Secretarial / Customer Services Vacancy ID:

275714 Employment Location:

Town Hall and Civic Offices, South Shields Post Number:

AC01025 Number of posts:

1 Closing date:

14 Feb Further Information

Blue Car Badge Administrator, 30 hpw (Adult Social Care Support Services, Town Hall and Civic Offices, South Shields) £25,183 pa pro rata The post is to provide an efficient and effective service to administer all aspects of Blue Badge applications on behalf of the Department for Transport in respect of both adults and children. The service includes managing eligibility queries, processing both paper and online applications for mobility and hidden disability applications, evaluating supporting evidence, ordering badges, managing correspondence around the application including unsuccessful applications and ensuring all applications are recorded on the services central database. Blue Car Badge Administrators manage the process from end to end, referring people who require mobility assessments to Occupational Therapists and processing appeal requests, which go to the senior occupational therapist for review. This busy role requires the ability to work autonomously. The Blue Car Badge Administrator will have good organisation skills and will be required to manage post, online applications, emails, and phone calls. The applicant will also need to be proficient with IT and will receive training in the use of multiple software systems. Excellent customer service skills are required to deal with a wide range of people and types of queries. The job applicant needs to be aware that blue badge applications can contain a lot of sensitive information about complex medical and social situations for both adults and children. The information provided is used to complete a decision-making tool to support the Blue Car Badge Administrator in making decisions on eligibility. For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Joanna Foots, Senior Support Services Officer on (0191) 4246576. We offer an excellent benefits package and further information is available here -

www.southtyneside.gov.uk/workinghere Please note that if you apply for this role, all communication regarding your application will be sent to the email address that you have registered with North East Jobs, please ensure you check your junk mail. Closing date: Noon, 14 February 2025 Interviews will take place on 6 March 2025

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