Business Officer - Adolescents

What will you be doing?

Your role will be supporting the work of the Adolescents teams within Children's Social Care. This role will include monitoring a shared mailbox for a variety of tasks, organising and minuting meetings and dealing with any follow up work. The role includes purchasing services and goods for the team, creating and updating spreadsheets, processing invoices and other finance tasks along with general administration duties. You will need to be organised and have the ability to manage your own workload and daily tasks.

About you

You will need to be flexible in your approach to work, as this is a varied role and will also include answering the phone, updating spreadsheets and any other tasks as necessary.

You will need good administration skills and the ability to prioritise as this is a fast-paced role with short statutory deadlines. Along with diary management, you will need excellent customer service and communication skills as you will be liaising with various other staff and service managers.

You will be expected to work on your own initiative, keep calm under pressure and work to tight deadlines. You should have a methodical and concise approach to tasks and the ability to prioritise workloads effectively. You will need a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft packages (Word and Excel) and be able to use databases.

Please evidence on your supporting statement how you meet the essential criteria of the person specification. However, please note, you do not need to meet all of the essential criteria to be able to apply, we are looking for enthusiastic people who are keen to learn.

We offer:

• A salary offered at Scale 4, SCPs 7 to 11 (£22,369 - £24,054 pro rata) Pay Award Pending

• Excellent index-linked, defined benefit pension scheme including life assurance benefits

• Outstanding occupational, sick, maternity/paternity and shared parental leave schemes – well above the statutory minimum

• Generous annual leave entitlement increasing with length of service and ability to buy more

• Training and development

The closing date for applications is 23^rd July at Midnight. Interviews will be held Thursday 3^rd August in Wisbech.

If you experience any technical difficulties or have any queries whilst completing your application, please call our Recruitment Team on 0300 1267777.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible working
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme.
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities. 

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers