Business Support

**Contract Type**: Permanent

**Salary**:Grade C. SCP 5 £23,500 - SCP 6 £23,893

**Hours Per Week**:36 hours

**Base Location**:Crickets Lane Clinic, Crickets Lane, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL6 6NG

**Assessment Date**: To be arranged

**The Role**

This is an exciting opportunity to come and work for Tameside Adult’s Services.

We are looking for a Business Support officer to join Adult Services. If you are passionate about supporting adults to live well at home, we would love to hear from you.

Tameside is a place that is passionate and committed to improving outcomes and creating a positive experience for individuals and families.

‘Our People Our Place Our Plan’ outlines our aims and aspirations for the area, its people and how we commit to work for everyone, every day.

Tameside adopts a positive working culture; we embrace innovation and encourage performance. We are committed to staff development and provide a wide range of training opportunities in a supportive working environment.

Tameside is proud to offer our Business Support:
Ongoing training and development

Thorough induction and ongoing supervision and support

Employees are encouraged to be involved in the ongoing development of practice

Flexible working

We currently have positions in our Integrated Urgent Care Team. It’s an exciting time to come and work for us as you will be joining the team at a time of transformation and great investment into services for adults and social care practice.

**About You**

You will be part of a friendly and supportive team and you will have excellent communication skills and have the ability to build effective professional relationships with other disciplines and with other local health and social care services to enable a coordinated response to individuals and families.

IUCT staff member;
“I am lucky to be part of an amazing, supportive and flexible team and I am excited for possible future opportunities and a long career with Tameside.”

If you are committed and would like to be part of our journey, we really want to hear from you.

Experience of working with adults and previous employment in a similar position would be desirable.

**About Us**

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English in the person specification.

For an informal discussion about the role please do not hesitate to contact Service Unit Manager Leah Grey 07973868541 or Team Manager Vicki Cropper 0161 922 4181

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

**Reference Number**: DPT299