Business Support Officer - Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom - Brighton & Hove City Council

Brighton & Hove City Council
Brighton & Hove City Council
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Business Support Officer:
Posted on 10 March 2023 Apply

  • Directorate

BHCC:
Families Children & Learning

  • Salary £ £2449
  • Contract Permanent

Location:

Greenhouse Contact Centre


Job Summary:


  • Job reference orbis/TP/128304/31363
  • Positions available 1
  • Working hours 37
  • Closing date 2 April 2023
  • Job category
  • Administration & Clerical
  • Organisation
  • Brighton & Hove City Council
    Job introduction:The Contact Service provides supervised contact for children in care to safely spend time with their parents and significant family members. We are a large, well established and supportive staff team who strive to provide the best experience for families having contact.

Interview Date:
To be confirmed

For more info or an informal chat about the role please contact Margot Kenney


About the role:


The primary function of the role is to assist in administrating complex contact arrangements, to include scheduling work, liaising with parents, carers, contact staff, social workers and other professionals, maintaining databases, invoicing, minuting meetings and running the office.

Administrators are based at the contact centre which means there is a high level of public facing work which requires excellent communication skills and a good degree of calm as contact can sometimes be an emotive and stressful experience for the people involved.


Key skills you can offer:

  • A flexible, adaptable approach to work with ability to multi task effectively according to business priorities
  • Ability to deal with confidential information tactfully and with discretion
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Experience in business support duties including arranging meetings, diary management.
  • Competent in working with Outlook and Microsoft Office packages
  • Ability to deal with confidential information tactfully and with discretion
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  • Inputting and retrieval of data on servicebased IT system

Our offer to our Team Administrators:

  • Career average pension scheme
  • Generous Annual Leave
  • A program of learning and development opportunities
  • Benefits such as: bus ticket and cycle loans; reduced cost gym membership with Freedom Leisure

Additional information:

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.


We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers.

Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration.

These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-)


Company information:


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