Business Support Assistant - Westchurch House

What will you be doing?

This vacancy is a Full-Time position. In return, you will be given regular supervision, support, and training to develop within the role.

We are looking for someone to join our busy Business Support team within the South Kent Children and Young Person’s Service. This position has a base office of Ashford.

You will often be the first point of contact for our service and need to be confident in liaising with families, colleagues, and professionals within a multi-agency environment. This is a receptionist role.

We are looking for someone with administrative experience and who is confident dealing with a variety of responsibilities and using a range of IT packages (MS Applications, Databases, etc).

You should enjoy working as part of an effective team but also work independently to a high standard whilst working remotely.

The role is varied and interesting and we offer: -

- A starting salary of £24,513 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

- 28 days paid annual leave per year (rising to 29 after 5 years’ service) + bank holidays + a concessionary day

- 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 Specification

About you

For further information please contact Terrie-Lea Johncock via email:
Terrie-Lea.Johncock@kent.gov.uk

About us

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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.