Business Support Lead

5 months ago


Brook, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

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We have an exciting opportunity for a full time Business Support Lead to join Integrated Children's Services working with Children’s Social Work Service in East Kent, based at Brook House.

The role requires excellent organisational and communication skills. As Business Support Lead you will supervise a team of Children’s Social Work business support staff, ensuring processes and systems are effective, up to date and accurate. You must be able to proactively manage your workload whilst responding to urgent requests and deadlines. You will have strong administrative, finance, minuting and IT skills and the ability to collate and manage data.

You will need to demonstrate a confident manner in liaising with professionals and organisations, acting as a contact point for the service, coordinating a range of meetings and monitoring staff performance. The work is interesting, varied and demanding, and we need someone with a calm and organised approach who can make a positive contribution to the success of the team. We are looking for someone who is flexible and occasional travel within East Kent may be required.

Kent Integrated Childrens Service provides a wide range of support to Kent's children and young people across Early Help and Preventative Services and Children’s Social Work Services. As well as working across these two divisions, we work with a number of partner organisations to make sure we can deliver the best possible outcomes_. _Our Business Support teams play a vital role supporting front-line teams and practitioners through provision of professional administrative support.

The role will oversee the effective and smooth running of our Business Support provision including supervision of a team of Business Support Staff. You will be responsible for ensuring processes and systems are effective, up-to-date and accurate. You must be able to proactively manage your workload and the workload of your team whilst responding to urgent requests and deadlines.

The Business Support Service aims to;
- Deliver an integrated and highly effective business support service
- Ensure children, young people and families are at the heart of everything we do
- Work together, share knowledge and support each other
- Innovate and improve
- Promote continuous personal and professional development

The role requires excellent organisational and communication skills, you will need a calm and organised approach and be able to make a positive contribution to the success of the team. We are looking for someone who is flexible with a can-do attitude backed by strong administrative, minuting and IT skills and the ability to collate and manage data.
- A starting salary of £25,127 with annual performance related pay increases
- Option to enrol in the Local Government Pension scheme with employer matched contributions
- 27 days paid annual leave per year (rising to 29 after 5 years service) + bank holidays + a concessionary day
- A range of flexible leave options to help you manage your work/life balance such as Carers leave, Maternity leave, Personal Leave, Timeout/career break, Study leave, Religious observance
- Flexible working - work from home or office as required and we’ll provide you with the kit needed to work remotely
- Staff discounts on a range of leisure products and services through our Kent Rewards programme

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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