Senior Business Officer - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council
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About the role

Our Prevention and Early Intervention (P&EI) Services are hard at work delivering multi-disciplinary, short-term social care interventions to keep adults across Cambridgeshire living safely and independently.

But our evolving operational teams need even more essential support from our Business Support workforce to keep running smoothly, and we would like to hear from you, if you would like to be part of our conscientious and passionate team


Due to expanding our business support capacity, we are recruiting Senior Business Officers across our P&EI services that can manage business support staff and support the work within our P&EI teams such as, Reablement, Technology Enabled Care, Adult Early Help, Occupational Therapy, Enhanced Response and more.


Senior Business Officers within P&EI work predominantly over 5 days, Monday through to Friday, but you
may be required to work over a scheduled weekend, to manage and support your staff.

The salary for this role is Scale 6, and will be between £27,344 and £29,439, dependent upon experience. Additional and enhanced rates for weekend working will also apply, together with the opportunity for performance-based pay progression.

Interviews will be held face-to-face in one of our office-locations, and the closing date is midday 31/03/2023

What will you be doing?
The Senior Business Officer role within P&EI is varied and dynamic.

You will communicate with a vast range of stakeholders and colleagues at all levels to ensure effective service provision to all of our customers.


Key duties and responsibilities include:

  • Providing high quality administrative support to operational teams to ensure efficient service delivery
  • Linemanaging a small team of Business Officers, overseeing their daily activities and workloads and undertaking regular 1:1 supervision
  • Providing key support and coordination to current projects across the service
  • Working closely with other Senior Business Officer across the wider directorate to ensure consistency in our practices
  • Support changes that impact the Business Support workforce and provide advice to service/team managers and their teams
Please see the job description/person specification for more details.

About you


You will need:

  • Excellent IT skills, including knowledge of all Windows and Microsoft packages
  • An organised approach with the ability and drive to manage your workload, prioritise and forward plan
  • Brilliant customer service skills and the ability to create and sustain strong working relationships with all of our stakeholders
  • Exemplary interpersonal skills and firstrate communication skills to enable you to support managers and colleagues and represent the service in a positive and professional manner
  • Exceptional teamworking skills, with the ability to professionally influence and lead others and be willing to share your knowledge and experience with your colleagues
  • A cando attitude and a flexible approach to your working pattern
Please evidence on your supporting statement how you meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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.


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.

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

  • Flexible working/hybrid working patterns
  • 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
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