Business Officer

1 week ago


Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time
About the role
Our Business Officer is an important role at the heart of the high-quality care and service we provide. We invest in our Business Officers from the moment they join us. This includes sector-leading pay, benefits and training, and a career where you will make a difference every day.

What will you be doing?

This role works closely with the Children's Commissioning and SEND Access to Resources Team (SEND ART), providing all administrative activities to support our service as we develop systems, processes and provisions to meet the needs of children, young people and families across Cambridgeshire.


You will establish open and ongoing communication with a range of professionals and other agencies involved in the care and welfare of service users.

This will include a high level of support to the team in relation to gathering data and fulfilling an administrative role within meetings and panels as required.


Within this role you will be key to the ongoing development of the service, providing new ideas and managing change to support appropriate service delivery, provide practical, creative solutions to problems and reallocating resources as required.

About you

You will be an organised, calm and enthusiastic individual who is motivated to work independently and as part of the wider team to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.


  • Be an excellent communicator both spoken and written
  • Be experienced with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
  • Be able to work within processes/procedures
  • Have experience in calendar management, setting up meetings and taking minutes
  • Work effectively with colleagues as part of a team
  • Have a willingness to learn and progress with a cando attitude
  • Have excellent attention to detail
  • Have an understanding of the principles and limits of confidentiality
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.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.


Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.

We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.


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
  • 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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