Role Responsibility
Are you an organised, proactive, and driven professional looking for a new challenge? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments, enjoy problem-solving, and have a knack for keeping things running smoothly? If so, we want you to be part of our friendly team!
At Kent County Council, we believe in fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. We are searching for Business Support Officers who will play a pivotal role in helping our organisation operate efficiently and effectively.
You will be joining the newly formed Adult Social Care and Health Business Support Division, which has around 300 business support professionals that deliver support to our frontline services empowering our residents to live their lives the way they want to.
We believe the importance of supporting people to be involved in everyday activities, make choices and feel part of their communities, or not, as anyone has the right to do, in a way that suits them.
What you'll be doing:
1. Advocate for our clients and champion adult social care and health, acting as a point of contact; assessing and resolving telephone queries, mailbox monitoring and production and distribution of correspondence and documentation
2. Coordinate the recruitment process for new staff and support staff inductions.
3. Coordinate a range of meetings, including production of agendas, taking and producing minutes
4. Maintain financial processes, including preparing invoices, investigating queries and ensuring financial records are accurate
5. Data entry into a range of systems, resolution of queries and input into development of monitoring processes
This is to give you a flavour of what you will be doing. We are a wide-ranging division, with opportunities to get involved in lots more.
Why youll love working with us:
6. A collaborative culture we believe in team work, and youll have the opportunity to work with departments across the Council, making a meaningful difference every day.
7. Room to grow whether youre looking to build on your existing skills or take on new challenges, we offer plenty of opportunities for growth and development.
8. Exciting challenges each day brings new challenges and opportunities to problem-solve, innovate, and make a difference in our fast-paced environment.
9. Supportive environment were a friendly, dynamic, and inclusive team that values everyones contribution.
10. Great employee benefits from a generous contributory pension scheme and 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays to the Kent Rewards scheme which provides discounts from over 1,200 national and local retailers and Cycle2Work scheme.
What youll bring:
11. Proven experience in business support, administration, or a similar role.
12. Excellent organisational and multitasking skills.
13. Strong communication abilities, both written and verbal.
14. Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams) and other office software.
15. Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a proactive attitude and a passion for problem-solving.
16. A positive, can-do mindset with a commitment to delivering high quality work.
17. Ability to travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner at various times of the day is essential.
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.
This post is subject to a Basic Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.