Business Support Officer

Role Responsibility

We are looking for a Business Support Officer to join the Adolescent Early Help South 1 team. 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 the wider Business Support Service Adolescent team in a fast-paced environment, providing invaluable professional support to Early Help staff in the service. You will liaise with families, professionals and colleagues with responsibilities including arranging and minuting meetings, completing time limited tasks within the Children and Young People’s database, acting as the first point of contact for queries and updating our electronic children’s service case management systems.  

You will be a skilled, motivated administrator, proficient in Word, Excel, and Outlook and possess excellent organisational skills both in managing your own time whilst 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 valuable in the role.

This is a hybrid post working three days in the office and two days at home, we can offer flexibility to what days are worked at home.

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

Faye.Bradley@kent.gov.uk or 03000 410692 

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.