Coroners Business Support Officer

Role Responsibility

Kent & Medway Coroners Service

This is your chance to play a vital business support role within the Coroners’ Service for Kent and Medway. You will take a proactive and highly organised approach to delivering the core administrative and financial functions that support the smooth running of the service and ensure high‑quality outcomes for bereaved families, partners, and the wider community.

Diligent in your approach and confident handling a range of business processes, you will be responsible for maintaining financial systems, processing invoices, managing data, and ensuring accurate records are kept in line with legislation, policy, and best practice. Your ability to work methodically, maintain excellent attention to detail, and manage competing priorities will be essential.

Working collaboratively with Coroners, Coroners Service Supervisors, Investigation Officers, Court Officers, Ushers, and volunteers, you will help maintain a resilient and effective service.

Aside from the financial functions a key part of your role will also be liaising sensitively and professionally with bereaved families, witnesses, partner agencies, and other stakeholders. You will demonstrate empathy, clarity, and confidence, especially when communicating with individuals who may be distressed or facing difficult circumstances. You will also be required to help with; inquest documentation, court technology is operated correctly, and legal compliance is maintained throughout.

You will bring a proven track record in business support or financial administration, ideally in a role requiring confidentiality, responsibility, and strong customer service skills. You must be confident using Microsoft 365, databases, Oracle systems, spreadsheets, and electronic records with accuracy and efficiency.

The position is based at Oakwood House in Maidstone, where we are co‑located with the Coroners Court. However, on occasion you may be required to travel across Kent and Medway to support the needs of the service, including transporting documents or equipment. The post is full‑time (9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday). There are also mandatory staff development events, including two Saturday sessions and two days of residential training each year, along with an expected professional dress standard due to the nature of the role.

Please do not attach a CV — all relevant information must be provided within the application form. Be sure to specify your qualifications clearly, explain any employment gaps, and demonstrate how your skills, knowledge, and experience meet the criteria within the “Reason for Application” section.

Please do NOT attach a CV to your application all relevant information must be in your application form. Please specify the grade and qualification when entering qualifications, explain gaps in employment and ensure that you describe how your skills, knowledge and experience match the criteria for the position in Your Reason For Application. Closing date for applications is mid-night Sunday 12^th April 2026.

Please note that Kent County Council is currently reviewing its pay scales, and the starting salary for this role may differ from the figure advertised as of 1 April 2026.

 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 further information, please contact:
coronerservicemanager@kent.gov.uk
coronerservicesupervisor@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 soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.