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Business Support Officer

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Role Responsibility

Temporary up to 4th July 2023

We are looking for a Business Support Officer to join the North and West Kent Adolescent Service in Maidstone. This is a demanding and challenging role and you will need a calm and organised approach, alongside excellent communication skills.

You will be working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment, providing invaluable professional support to Early Help and Social Work staff in the district. You will liaise with families, professionals and colleagues with responsibilities including arranging and minuting meetings, tracking timescales, acting as the first point of contact for phone queries and completing tasks on our electronic children’s service system.  You will be a skilled, motivated administrator, proficient in Word, Excel, and Outlook, and in organising your own time and supporting others to meet deadlines and performance targets.

The work is varied - you will be expected to deal with a wide range of issues and work collaboratively with colleagues, sharing duties as required throughout the team. The ability to produce accurate minutes which are of a highly sensitive nature and experience of finance and processing payments would be essential.

This post is subject to an Enhanced 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 Specification.

Contact Details

For more information about the role, please contact Dannielle Ruffell on 03000 418397 or via email on Dannielle.Ruffell@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 and faiths, 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.

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