Business Support Apprentice for ICS Central Monitoring & Compliance

Role Responsibility

Join Our Dynamic Team as a Business Support Apprentice!

Are you ready to kickstart your career with an exciting opportunity? Join our innovative and collaborative team in Kent County Council’s Integrated Children’s Service!

What’s in it for you?

• Earn a salary while obtaining a nationally recognised Level 3 qualification in Business Administration.
• Gain valuable workplace skills and experience in a large, diverse, and rapidly changing organisation.

Your Role: As a Business Support Apprentice in the Central Monitoring & Compliance team, you’ll:

• Expand your existing technical skills and enhance your knowledge on data protection.
• Support the teams that help Kent’s children and families.
• Work alongside two experienced business support leads and learn both sides of the business.
• Innovate and streamline processes, support information requests, and network across Kent County Council.
• Build your learning and portfolio in information governance, coding, automation, data protection, and analysis.

Why You’ll Love It Here:

• We are a hybrid-working team based at Invicta House in Maidstone.
• Enjoy regular team days and assigned office days.
• Be part of a motivated team that’s keen to learn and grow together.

In addition to great learning and career development opportunities, we offer: 

• Hybrid working (a mixture of home working and office-based working) 
• Protected study time 
• 26 days paid leave per year (+ bank holidays) 
• Regular performance and pay review throughout your apprenticeship   
• Access to discounts on a range of products/services through Kent Rewards 
• Access to a range of staff groups 

Your Salary: 

As an apprentice, you will start off on a salary of £18,000 pa, rising to £23,337 pa after a successful probation period.  

Important Note:

As this post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification. 

This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service. 

Please note that this advert may close earlier than the planned closing date should we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Contact Details

If you have any questions about this role, please contact: 

Emily Currington, Business Support Lead

03000 418742 or emily.currington@kent.gov.uk

or

James Benwell, Business Support Lead

03000 411149 or james.benwell@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.