Business Support Officer(Housing) - Preston, United Kingdom - Lancashire County Council

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Salary £25,979 - £29,777 Per annum | Full time | Fixed Term 31/05/2025 | 37 hours per week | Preston |


Asset Management Service
**12-month Temporary Position/Secondment Opportunity

We are currently recruiting:
ancashire County Council


Here at Lancashire County Council, we are helping to make Lancashire the best place to live, work, visit and prosper.

Lancashire is the fourth largest local authority in England and strategic commissioner of education provision to over 170,000 children and young people in 628 schools across the county.

Lancashire County Council exists to serve everyone who lives or works in Lancashire.

We are committed to developing and celebrating our diverse communities, heritage and landscape to create a strong sense of place we can all be proud of.

At the heart of our strategy for delivery are our four priorities:
delivering better services, protecting our environment, supporting economic growth, and caring for the vulnerable.


Role & Responsibilities:


We are looking to recruit an astute and experienced administrator to work within the School Place Planning Team as a technical expert to undertake Education Contribution Assessments to evaluate the need for contributions to mitigate the impact of housing development/growth across Lancashire to ensure that the council can meet its statutory duty to provide sufficient schools places.


  • Complete housing assessments to assess the likely impact of new housing developments on school places and seek financial contributions where needed.
  • To monitor and record housing assessment activity, appeals and planning permissions.
  • Complete schools' net capacity assessments
  • Provide administrative support on school provision review processes including the preparation of consultation documentation and distribution.
  • Record and summarise consultation responses.
  • Prepare information and intelligence from data held within the team, to inform any Freedom of Information Requests, VIP Mails, Basic Need Scoping, Local Plan Consultations, Planning Applications, School Appeals and more.
  • Provide specific project support as required.
  • Maintain knowledge and understanding of work of the wider team.
  • Maintain and monitor the team mailbox on behalf of the team.
  • Support with the collation of district housing land supply returns and provide the relevant analysis to support forecast updates.
  • Provide a problemsolving approach to tasks and seek solutions to complex problems.

Application Supporting Statement:


Please note that when completing your supporting statement, it's important that you have specifically demonstrated and evidenced that you meet each essential criteria from the person specification in line with the role responsibilities as detailed above.

If you do not meet the criteria, but feel you possess relevant qualities, please demonstrate within your supporting statement.


Why join us:


Benefits:


  • There's fabulous flexibility and the opportunity to create the work life balance you will love with our hybrid working model.
  • We offer up to 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays, two additional days at Christmas and then an additional 20 days that can be purchased.
  • We have benefit packages which has everything from discounted white goods to a hybrid car lease scheme, long service awards, Medicash, support groups, cycle to work schemes, free eye tests plus much more.
  • Best of all we have a generous public sector pension (16.3% employer contributions) with shared AVC's that provides Income Tax relief and National Insurance (NICs) savings using a salary sacrifice arrangement and providing a flexible pension saving opportunities.
  • We also have a range of personal/professional qualifications which will be available to you and career progression available for the right person.

Development:

You will receive support and development along the journey - there will be time for supportive reflection and supervision for yourself, opportunities for personal/professional qualifications, multidisciplinary initiatives, mentoring, but most of all the opportunity to make a difference, feel valued and achieve the job satisfaction you've always wanted.


_Please feel free to contact us for an initial informal and confidential chat: _

Closing Date:27 th May 2024
Interviews:TBC

In return Lancashire County Council offers a range of benefits, which can be found on LCC Vacancies website.

**Job Description and Person Specification
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