Business Support Officer - Dorchester, United Kingdom - Dorset Councils

Dorset Councils
Dorset Councils
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Dorchester, United Kingdom

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Description
Organisation

  • Dorset Council
  • Location
  • Dorchester, United Kingdom
  • Reference
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  • Occupational group
  • Public Health
  • Salary details

- £22,777 to £25,40
  • Job term
  • Full Time
  • Appointment type
  • Permanent
  • Contact
  • Vicky Nichols
  • Closing Date
  • 17 July :00 PM


We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Public Health Dorset team as a Business Support Officer.


Public Health Dorset is an innovative, creative, and energetic team working to deliver effective improvements in health and wellbeing, and to reduce inequalities in health outcomes to the 800,000 residents of Dorset and BCP Councils.

Through a shared service model that supports both Unitary Councils to fulfil their statutory public health duties, Public Health Dorset commissions and provides essential public health services, as well as supporting the Integrated Care System.

Our priorities now are to continue our prevention work as the local health and care system transforms.

At a regional level, we will continue to work with national bodies, including UK Health Security Agency and Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, working to ensure these critical public health functions - health protection, health improvement, healthy places and healthcare public health - continue to work effectively as we support the local system to deliver better outcomes to residents.


What you will be doing
This role will be providing business support to the Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Health Inequalities programme areas and will:

  • Work closely with the programme leads to understand programme priorities, deadlines and key players.
  • Arrange meetings, events and associated activities on behalf of the programme lead and attend when required to record actions.
  • Follow up on actions and maintain action trackers.
  • Maintain a programme plan and be proactive in ensuring the programme lead/team is always prepared for key deadlines, progress is monitored, and timelines are clear.
  • Maintain digital working areas.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.


About you

  • Are you a good team player who is also able to work autonomously?
  • Do you enjoy working with new technology and sharing your knowledge with others?
  • Do you have a cando attitude, with a calm approach?
  • Are you super organised?
  • Do you enjoy communicating with different people, across a multitude of organisations?


The Business Support team continue to work in a hybrid way, working from home and in the Bournemouth, Dorchester and Poole offices.


The Business Support team are committed to spending one day per week (as a minimum) in the office, alternating between the offices in Bournemouth, Dorchester and Poole.


Dorset Council:
A great place to work
We're passionate about making Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Working for us should be no exception.


At Dorset Council we:
- provide more than 450 services to over 300,000 residents
- have ambitious aspirations
- are excited about our future
- care about Dorset and all the people who live here
- know that all roles make a difference and that our employees are key to our success


You will:
- have access to a range of employee benefits
- be part of an organisation that supports each other to grow and succeed
- have access to range of training opportunities which will help with your personal development and career progression

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We offer an interview to everyone who declares a disability and meets the essential criteria for the role.

We also look for applicants who share our commitment to our behaviours. We will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

This post requires significant travel. You must have a vehicle (or transport we deem suitable) available for use as needed.

This post involves working with children and/or vulnerable adults and/or having access to significant information about them.


This role is UK based and we will need to establish your Right to Work as part of the appointment process.

We use generic job descriptions and person specifications. This means the job title on any attachments may differ from the job title in the advert. We may provide specific information in a context statement if relevant.
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