Senior Business Support Officers

Job Title: Senior Business Support Officers
Starting Salary: £27,694 opportunity to progress to £31,022 pa (pro-rata for part-time)
Hours: up to 37 hours
Location: Hertfordshire, Main Office Bases - East, Stevenage, West, Apsley
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 Business Support Senior Officers 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

Our Business Support Service supports a range of departments. If you are particularly interested in an area, please specify in your application. If we do not have any vacancies for your preferred area at this time your application will be held in a talent pool, and you will be contacted when a vacancy arises.

All roles tend to be hybrid, which will mean that you will be expected to work within one of Hertfordshire County Council’s offices on a regular basis as well as working from home. The hiring manager will discuss the details for each particular vacancy.

We currently only have the following vacancies in the following teams:

Adult Care Services

Health Liaison Team – Adult Disability Services

37 hours, permanent

Countywide – travel will be required between Stevenage and Apsley with hybrid working

This is a dynamic and fast‑paced role in which the postholder will hold primary responsibility for providing business support to the Purple Folder and Purple Star services within the Health Liaison Team. The successful candidate will be confident in communicating with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders across health settings and will bring experience and/or knowledge of working with people with learning disabilities and those who support them. We are seeking a proactive, self‑motivated individual who is passionate about making a meaningful difference through their contribution to our service.

For enquires please contact Michele Blackaby, Michele.Blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk

Supported Living & Shared Lives

30 hours, permanent

Farnham House with hybrid working

This role involves producing a high volume of reports, together with data manipulation for the service. The postholder will require excellent Excel and Word skills. You will also be required to confident working independently with the ability to prioritise your workload.

For enquires please contact Michele Blackaby, Michele.Blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk

(please specify in your cover letter if you are interested in any of the above)

Adult Care Services

ACS focusses on enabling people to live a full and active life as independently as possible in the community. We have Older People’s and Sensory Services, Adult Disability Services, Safeguarding, DoLs and Learning & Development, along with Integrated Discharge and Transfer of Care Teams, Day Opportunities and Supported Living Services. As a Business Support Officer you will undertake a variety of administrative duties depending on the service including data entry and analysis, meeting support and minute taking, receiving and making telephone calls. You may be in contact with those that use our services and a DBS may be required in these settings. Some of the roles will not be office based but maybe in the Hosptial Teams or Supported Living Units.

Essential:

• Experience of working in a previous administrative or support role
• Organisational and multitasking skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with a range of audiences
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software
• Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of specialised processes and methods gained through relevant training and experience.
• 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.
• You will be used to working to tight deadlines and with high accuracy in written correspondence.
• Experience in minute or note taking

Desirable:

• Support with coaching and training others
• Experience in processing invoices and handling financial transactions

This job role is within the Business Support, level BUS07 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles: Business support services

Closing Date: This is an ongoing advert and you may be required to start work before the closing date specified.

Interview Date: Please note interviews will be arranged as and when applications are received.

Vacancies are being progressed regularly which may mean that a vacancy in a particular team may be filled before a candidate is put forward, however there are ongoing vacancies.

Benefits of working for us

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.

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.

Secondment
This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the Secondment Form as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.

Additional information

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.

Driving required
You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

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.