Business Support Officer

1 month ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

Advert
Do you want to be instrumental in delivering a service that will make a difference to the lives of our some of our most vulnerable children and young adults? If you do, this is an exciting opportunity to join the Total Placement Service (TPS) in our work finding homes for our children in care and care leavers.

TPS is a key element of the children’s services strategy to meet the authority’s sufficiency duty in ensuring that homes for these children, young people and adults provide stability, ensuring their needs are met and help them to achieve their aspirations. If successful, you will be part of an established and supportive team, receiving regular supervision to aid your professional development along with a range of training opportunities.

The post is varied and interesting providing specialist advice and support on a variety of home options, resolving some complex issues, collaborating with colleagues in children’s social care and commissioning and managing liaison between key stakeholders. To be eligible for the post you will need to possess the following skills/experience:

- Literacy and numeracy skills
- Highly motivated, excellent organisational, administration and communication skills and an eye for detail
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload to achieve deadlines
- Have an excellent knowledge of IT systems; Excel, Word and Outlook
- Awareness of Data Protection and confidentiality issues
- Commitment to equalities, inclusion and diversity in all aspects of working

Kent County Council is committed to a hybrid working model with a flexible working offer, please note regular attendance to work from our Maidstone office will be required.

The closing date is 8th March 2024.

Interviews will take place in the week commencing 18th March 2024 at Invicta House, Maidstone.

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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