Business Support Assistant - Attendance Enforcement Team

Role Responsibility

An exciting opportunity has emerged to recruit Business Support Assistants on a permanent basis to join the PRU, Inclusion and Attendance Service (PIAS) Attendance Enforcement Team.

The Attendance Enforcement Team provide advice to attendance and inclusion practitioners on school attendance matters.  The team are responsible for the Council’s statutory duties in relation to unsatisfactory school attendance.

The core objective for the PIAS is that all children and young people are engaged, thrive and achieve their potential through academic and vocational education through regular school attendance.

PIAS sits within the Education & SEND division of Kent County Council’s Children, Young People and Education (CYPE) directorate. PIAS works with a wide range of schools and practitioners within and external to KCC with the core aim of reducing levels of persistent and severe absence, suspension and permanent exclusion experienced by pupils across the county.

Role responsibilities

As a Business Support Assistant, you will work collaboratively within a small team to ensure our administrative systems and processes contribute to providing accurate data and documents that are time-critical and may be exhibited at Court. Occasionally you will be required to assist with tasks in preparation for legal proceedings.

The role requires someone with excellent organisation and communication skills and must be able to proactively manage their workload whilst responding to high volumes of work and deadlines. Accuracy and attention to detail is essential. The work is interesting, varied and demanding, and we need someone with a calm and organised approach who can make a positive contribution to the success of the team. Applicants will have an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and MS Teams.

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.
 

Contact Details

If you would further information about the job, please call:
Cassie Dobson on 03000 410452 or email Cassie.dobson@ketn.gov.uk

Alternatively call Alison Taylor on 03000 410646 or email Alison.taylor2@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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.