Business Support Officer - South Kent Children in Care Team

Role Responsibility

This vacancy is a Full-Time Fixed-Term position for 7 months. In return, you will be given regular supervision, support, and training to develop within the role. This role will finish on the 14th of January 2025. 

We are looking for someone to join our busy Business Support team within the South Kent Children and Young Person’s Service. We cover the areas of Ashford, Dover and Folkstone and support Social Workers working with children in those areas. This position has a base office of Dover. 

As a Business Support Officer, you will support senior managers and social workers on a range of tasks and work alongside colleagues to assist in the smooth running of the service in South Kent. This is a varied and challenging post and requires someone with excellent organisation and communication skills and proven administrative experience.

You will be responsible for providing full confidential administrative support, being the first point of contact for families and professionals and recording accurate information on cases. You will also support a range of meetings, organising, and taking accurate minutes. You should be able to proactively manage your workload whilst responding to urgent requests and deadlines and be able to work flexibly alongside team members.

The role is varied and interesting and we offer: -

• A starting salary of £24,040 with annual performance related pay increases
• Opportunities for personal training and development
• Regular supervision
• Option to enrol in the Local Government Pension scheme with employer matched contributions
• 27 days paid annual leave per year (rising to 29 after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays + a concessionary day
• A range of flexible leave options to help you manage your work/life balance such as Carers leave, Maternity leave, Personal Leave, Timeout/career break, Study leave, Religious observance
• Staff discounts on a range of leisure products and services through our Kent Rewards programme. 

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

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

Contact Details

For further information please contact:

Terrie-Lea Johncock via email: Terrie-Lea.Johncock@kent.gov.uk

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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.