Salary: £23,893 to £25,119 per annum
Grade: E
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy Hours: 37 hours per week (3 dedicated days for Youth Justice Service, 2 days for Early Help Team)
Location: Castle House with some time spent at Briercliffe Children and Families Hub
Are you a great communicator who enjoys problem solving and supporting a team?
If so, we are looking for you.
We are looking for a Business Support Office to join our Business Support team.
A vacancy has arisen working for the Early Help team incorporating Youth Justice Service. You will join a highly motivated team with good customer service skills who undertake a variety of tasks, updating bespoke databases, minuting taking,
The Service
Early Help is part of the Children & Families Service providing interventions to children, young people, and their families, as well as statutory work for those open to Children’s Social Care and Youth Justice.
The role
As a Business Support Officer, you will provide administrative support, involving daily updating, amending, and processing tasks within bespoke databases, handling calls, providing support to the operational teams and minuting meetings, all within specific and statutory timescales. This is a varied and rewarding role working 3 days specifically for the Youth Justice Service and 2 days a week supporting the wider Early Help team.
We are supporting a hybrid approach to office and home working however you must be willing to travel for training, meetings and to provide cover at other sites and services across the area.
This is an exciting opportunity to support the Children and Families Service, managers, and operational teams with a primary focus on Early Help.
What you will bring….
The successful applicant must have good ICT and literacy skills. You must be able to prioritise your own workload, be conscientious, well organised, accurate, with eye for detail. You will have the ability to work unsupervised and be flexible in your approach, being able to work using your own initiative as a well as effectively in a team.
You must respect the need for confidentiality of personal information and have knowledge of Data Protection (GDPR), Equalities and Health and Safety requirements of working within an office environment.
Working for us.
You will be surrounded by a supportive, established team of professionals who will help you grow and develop within this role. As a North Yorkshire County Council employee, you will have access to some great benefits via our everybody benefit’s scheme such as shopping discounts, home technology and green car salary sacrifice schemes, financial wellbeing and health assured and our employee assistance programme to assist with your health and wellbeing. You will also have access to our local government pension scheme, a generous plan for your retirement with the option to increase your monthly contribution if you so wish. For more information on the benefits, we offer please see our Total Rewards Brochure.
Contact and apply
If you feel this role is something you could be interested in and would like to know more, please contact Wendy Stockdale, Business Support Team Leader on 01609 536352or email Wendy.Stockdale@northyorks.gov.uk
Key Documents
Job Description Business Support Officer Grade E.docx
Key dates
Closing date: Thursday 18th July 2024
Interview dates: Thursday 25th July 2024
Interview Venue: Briercliffe Children and Families Hub, Scarborough
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