Stevenage (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
No DBS check required
£24,790
Job Title: Business Support Officer
Starting Salary: £24,790
Hours: 37.0
Location: Stevenage/Hybrid
Contract Type: Fixed Term End Date November 2025
Directorate: Resources
About the team
You will be working in a rewarding and fast paced environment, Providing Admin support to the Building Bridges Team which works alongside the Children Looked after service.
You will be providing administration support to a Multidisciplinary panel, where decisions are made regarding reunification of families.
Your responsibility will be to arrange the Panels, creating agenda's, collating updated information for panels, minute taking at panels and recording outcomes.
About the role
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, providing excellent support to your team? Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently?
Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised individuals who can ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments.
Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation. Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it.
You'll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you'll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.
About you
Essential:
This job role is within the Business Support Services, level BUS6 job profile. Please locate this via:
Job profiles: Business support services
To hear more about this opportunity please contact Tereska Ricardson,
tereska.richardson1@hertfordshire.gov.uk
T: 01438 844535
M: 07812322913
for an informal discussion about the role.
Interview Date: 3rd and 4th April 2025
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Secondment
This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the Secondment Form as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
Starting Salary: £24,790
Hours: 37.0
Location: Stevenage/Hybrid
Contract Type: Fixed Term End Date November 2025
Directorate: Resources
About the team
You will be working in a rewarding and fast paced environment, Providing Admin support to the Building Bridges Team which works alongside the Children Looked after service.
You will be providing administration support to a Multidisciplinary panel, where decisions are made regarding reunification of families.
Your responsibility will be to arrange the Panels, creating agenda's, collating updated information for panels, minute taking at panels and recording outcomes.
About the role
Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, providing excellent support to your team? Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently?
Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised individuals who can ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments.
Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation. Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it.
You'll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you'll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.
About you
Essential:
- Proven experience in an administrative support
- Excellent organisational and multitasking skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with a range of audiences
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software
- Experience in taking notes/minute taking
- Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to plan own work over short timescales for routine or familiar tasks and processes and use your initiative to work independently
- GCSE or Vocational equivalent, strong numeracy, and literacy skills
- You will be used to working to tight deadlines and with high accuracy in written correspondent
This job role is within the Business Support Services, level BUS6 job profile. Please locate this via:
Job profiles: Business support services
To hear more about this opportunity please contact Tereska Ricardson,
tereska.richardson1@hertfordshire.gov.uk
T: 01438 844535
M: 07812322913
for an informal discussion about the role.
Interview Date: 3rd and 4th April 2025
Benefits of working for us
How to apply
As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.
Secondment
This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the Secondment Form as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.
Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.
Closing date: Tue 25/03/2025 at 00:00
Job reference: HCC27442