Business Support Senior Coordinator - Countywide Business Support Team

Role Responsibility

Business Support Senior Coordinator - Countywide Business Support Team

Full time, Temporary Contract

An opportunity has arisen for a Business Support Senior Coordinator to join the Countywide Business Support Team, supporting the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Team, on a temporary contract covering an internal secondment.

The DoLS team provide a Countywide service for people who are deprived of their liberty in a care home or hospital.

The Business Support Senior Coordinator will support the service by supervising and supporting a number of business support staff on a daily basis, provide a high-quality comprehensive business support service and work alongside the Service Manager, Team Managers and BIA Assessors to assist in the smooth running of the service.

The main duties and responsibilities are:

- Provide supervision/supervisory duties to members of the business support team. Support development of staff through training opportunities, promoting personal development plans for continued professional development.

- Update, modify and retrieve data on both manual and computerised systems, preparing standard and nonstandard reports, cross checking data held on different systems to ensure accurate and reliable responses for reporting to senior managers / teams within agreed timescales.

- Support the day-to-day business support function, allocating work to other business support staff ensuring adequate cover is in place for an efficient and effective service.

This is a busy, fast paced team and applicants will need to demonstrate resilience, and problem solving skills, along with sound professional judgement when making decisions. 

You must have excellent organisation and communication skills and be able to proactively manage your workload, whilst supporting the management of workload across the wider team. You will have experience of supervising staff, strong administrative and IT skills, and the ability to collate and manage data. 

You will also need to demonstrate a confident manner in liaising with senior managers, professionals, and organisations.

Contractual base is Invicta House, Maidstone with hybrid working supported.

Interviews to be held Wednesday 12^th June 2024.

The successful candidate must be able to travel on occasions, as meetings and training are held at different sites across the County.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

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

For more information on this role, please contact: 

Hollie Marsh

Senior Business Support Officer

hollie.marsh@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.