Part Time - Business Support Officer - Shropshire
Location Telford Discipline: Job type: Salary: £24, pro rata Contact name: Tina Powell Contact email: Job ref: 031223 Published: about 4 hours ago Expiry date: 26 Sep 2025 23:59
Do you have administration experience? Would you like to work for a dedicated charity that support individuals with learning disabilities to live the best life possible.
At Hft, we are recruiting for a Part time Business Support Officer to join our team for 21 hours per week. The Business Support Officer will be a key team member for our Shropshire services based in Telford. The role will consist of administration around finance, employee engagement and office management - see more about the role below. You may occasionally be required to travel to other locations within the regions, as agreed with your manager. Possession of a full EU/UK driving license, with your own transport and prepared to use and insure for work purposes, is **essential **for this role. This is a part time role - 21 hours per week with the ability to work these flexibly across Monday to Friday.
A Full UK Driving License and access to a vehicle with appropriate business insurance is essential for this role.
Apart from a rewarding career, what's in it for you?
There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. Well give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and support along the way.
As a Gold standard Investors in People accredited employer, we are committed to supporting colleague wellbeing as a priority. Within this, all Hft employees get access to Telus Health the worlds biggest 24/7 colleague counselling and support service. It is completely free for all colleagues to use in complete confidence, whenever and however they want to access it.
What else?
1. Annual Leave: 33 days (including 8 days statutory bank holidays - pro rata)
2. Qualification in Business Administration Level 3 or similar, if you do not already have a relevant qualification
3. Training: Access to award winning training and development
4. Wagestream: Allows you to flexibly access your pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app
5. Aviva Digicare + workplace: Access to wellbeing services including health checks, Digital GP and mental health support.
6. TELUS health: A 24/service, completely confidential counselling and support platform and helpline that is free for all colleagues to use.
7. Discounted mobile phone contracts. As an Hft employee, youll be able to take advantage of Vodafones Employee Advantage programme, giving you up to 30% off.
8. Care Friends: Employee referral app earn money for referring your friends to work for Hft.
9. Free life assurance 3 x your annual salary
10. Family friendly policies Part time, annualised and compressed hours. Generous return to work bonus following maternity leave.
About you
- You will have previous administration experience and strong IT knowledge, including experience of using Microsoft Office with the ability to produce reports and presentations within Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Good financial understanding of management accounts including working knowledge of purchase and sales ledger as well as petty cash, credit card reconciliation is key.
- You will have a strong understanding of GDPR and experience managing sensitive data including workforce documentation. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, where priorities frequently change and you are keen to learn and adapt to new systems and processes all while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
We are really passionate about what we do and look for likeminded individuals with a positive attitude to people with learning disabilities!
About the role
As a Business Support Officer, you will support individual areas and provide positive and timely business support for the Care and Support function to meet their delivery of organisation business processes. This will include finance, data gathering, employee engagement/support (on-board/off-board) as well as mobile phone device management and registered area office management.
Responsibilities include
11. Invoicing and PO support
12. Raising invoice recharges and journals including for example, online purchases for people we support, emergency cash advances, fuel, mileage and service car leases
13. Income returns and support local banking
14. Credit card reconciliations
15. Petty cash management
16. Fundraising income support
17. Reward and Recognition support including for example, localised support for GEM vouchers, Refer a Friend process support and any other related organizational reward and recognition initiatives.
18. Dealing with support queries and redirecting appropriately
19. Looking after incoming and outgoing post
20. Liaising with visitors and contractors
21. Employee / engagement support
22. Fleet management support
23. Agency support
24. Health and safety management
25. and other tasks as required.
Key Dates to Note:
26. Applications close: Monday 4th August 2025
27. In-person interviews and workplace assessments: Week commencing 11th August 2025 (for those successful at the first stage)
We look forward to receiving your application.