About the role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work within the Local Authority and gain experience within Children’s Services? We require 1 full time (37 hours) Business Officer to provide administrative support to the Children’s Social Care Teams within the Children, Education and Families Directorate.
The role will include the providing high quality administration to the wider team including financial support and minuting of Public Law Outline (PLO) meetings along with Strategy Discussion meetings, therefore previous minuting experience is desirable.
The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for supporting the East Cambs Family Support and Safeguarding Team and will be based in Noble House, Ely, although there is an expectation that Business Officers are able to work flexibly across various locations. The role includes a mix of office and home working.
If you are interested in this opportunity and have any questions about the role, please contact Senior Business Officer, Claire Kerridge on Claire.Kerridge@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or Business Development Coordinator, Georgia Hufford on Georgia.Hufford@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
The closing date for applications is Sunday 26th January 2025 at midnight. Interviews will be held on Tuesday 4th February 2025 at Noble House, Ely, CB7 4EX.
What will you be doing?
This is a varied role, and 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.
You will be required to provide high quality administrative support to the wider team to undertake tasks such as financial support and minuting meetings. You will need to have the ability to summarise and produce information in a concise manner as minuting meetings is a key task of the role.
You will be required to liaise with colleagues, professionals and members of the public over the phone, via email and face-to-face is an integral part of this role and therefore, excellent communication skills are essential alongside an understanding of the importance of confidentiality and data protection.
Please provide a CV detailing your previous roles and experience, qualifications and 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.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
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 firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
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.
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