Business Support Officer - HFRS

Job Title: Business Support Officer
Starting Salary: £25,583 opportunity to progress to £28,142 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Hours: 20 hours per week
Location: Watford/Rickmansworth/hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Resources

About the team

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, providing excellent support to your team? Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently?

Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised individual who can ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments.

Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation. Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it.

You’ll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you’ll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.

About the role

The role is primarily based in Watford and Rickmansworth, with occasional travel to other stations in the west of the county, as well as to Stevenage for training and meetings. Working hours can be distributed across the week, with some flexibility for remote working subject to business needs

Are you ready to make a difference in your community? Hertfordshire Fire Stations are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic individual to support our dedicated teams. This is your chance to be at the heart of the action, ensuring our firefighters have everything they need to keep Hertfordshire safe.

• Be Part of a Heroic Team: Work alongside dedicated professionals committed to saving lives
• Make a Real Impact: Play a crucial role in supporting operational staff and ensuring stations run smoothly
• Dynamic Work Environment: No two days are the same

Your role will be key in supporting operational staff and ensuring the smooth running of the station. Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the continued supply of PPE
• Entering overtime claims in a timely manner
• Overseeing station budgets and purchasing requirements
• Liaising with members of the public to arrange community fire safety events and bespoke home fire safety visits

About you

Essential:

• You will be used to working to tight deadlines and with high accuracy in written correspondence.
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills
• Strong communication skill abilities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Packages, Word, Excel.
• Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to plan own work over short timescales for routine or familiar tasks and processes and use your initiative to work independently.
• GCSE or Vocational equivalent, strong numeracy, and literacy skills.
• Enthusiasm and pride in your work are qualities we welcome.

Desirable:

• Experience in minute or note taking
  • Proven experience in an administrative or support role

We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.

This job role is Level 6. Please locate the job profile here:

Job profiles: Business support services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact nicola.stanley@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: to be confirmed

Benefits of working for us

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

We are changing
Hertfordshire County Councilis undergoing Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). If you are employed by Hertfordshire County on 1 April 2028, it is expected that most roles will transfer to the newly-created unitary councils on existing terms and conditions under TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings – Protection of Employment) principles.

LGR is one of the biggest changes we will face in a generation. It will reshape how we work and how services are organised and gives us a real opportunity to build something better. To find out more, visit https://www.hertfordshire-lgr.co.uk/

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Safeguarding
This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.