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Job Title: Business Support Team Leader - Older People Starting Salary: £42,839 opportunity to progress to £47,181 per annum (pro rata for part time) Hours: 37.0 Location: Hemel Hempstead Contract Type:&nbsp;Permanent Directorate: Resources<h4>About the team</h4>Our Business Support Service is looking for a Business Support Team Leader who will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the work for of a specific service area or directorate.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.&nbsp;<h4>About the role</h4>South West Herts Older People and Sensory ServicesThe Team Leader will:<ul><li>Be responsible for overseeing delivery of business support functions to services within the ACS Spoke</li><li>Line manage 3 Business Support Supervisors responsible for 8 business support staff.</li><li>Set longer term work priorities within the Older People’s service.</li><li>Plan and align support to all services maintaining management responsbilities, setting standards and ways of working to drive consistency of approach and offer.</li><li>Challenge existing practices, champion change and act as a role model for managers and staff.</li><li>Project planning to deliver results across a range of project and areas.</li><li>Be responsible for the management of diverse workloads, with multiple deadlines and customers.</li><li>Manage use of complex systems and processes and coach others to use them for best results.</li><li>Drive efficiencies and best practice in terms of AI and automation of processes.</li></ul><h4>About you</h4>Essential:<ul><li>Typically, you will be degree qualified (or vocational equivalent) plus you will have several years’ experience in a similar role or significant vocational experience, demonstrating development through involvement in a series of progressively more demanding relevant roles.</li><li>Previous line management experience</li><li>Extensive experience of working in a previous administrative or support role, with strong knowledge of business support activities</li><li>Previous ability to ensure deadlines are met with high accuracy in written correspondence</li><li>Excellent organisational and multitasking skills</li><li>Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with a range of audiences</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software</li><li>Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Ability to plan the work priorities of teams over a longer term, as well as short term</li><li>Enthusiasm and pride in your work are qualities we welcome</li><li>Experience in notes and minute taking</li><li>Previous experience in research and recommendation reports</li></ul>Desirable:<ul><li>Previous service related experience</li><li>Experience and understanding of HR policies and procedures</li><li>Project planning &amp; delivery</li><li>Change Management experience</li></ul>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 within the Business Support Services, level BUS11 job profile. Please locate this via:Job profiles: Business support servicesTo hear more about this opportunity please contactMichele Blackaby: 01438 843569<a href="mailto:michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>&nbsp;for an informal discussion about the role.Interview Date: 29th January 2026Benefits of working for us<h4>How to apply</h4>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. <h4>Additional information</h4>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.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.





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