Business Officer - Ely, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council

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Ely, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the role
An opportunity has arisen to join the Adolescent Service as a Part Time (24 Hours) Business Officer.

We happy to be flexible with the days you will work but due to service need, we have a preference for one of your working days to be a Friday.

This is a varied role which will include supporting front line practitioners with Admin duties, to include updating electronic files and arranging meetings, along with supporting the service with finance tasks and minuting of meetings.

There will be a mixture of office and home working for this role.

You will be based in Ely but may be required to travel to alternative office location on occasions.

Interviews will be held in Ely on Wednesday 17th April 2024.

What will you be doing?
The 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 on a company credit card, creating and updating spreadsheets, processing invoices and other finance tasks along with general administration duties.

About you
You will need to be flexible in your approach to work, as this is a varied role. You will need good administration skills and the ability to prioritise.

You will be expected to work on your own initiative, keep calm under pressure and work to 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 and in house software.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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