Business Support Assistant
This role sits within the Education Travel Policies team. This is a small friendly established team which supports policy-making and decisions for school transport eligibility and arrangements with a particular focus on children with special educational needs and /or the involvement of social care. The role provides administrative report to the team.
About us
At Cheshire East Council we are resident and partner focused with a vision to enable prosperity and wellbeing for all. People really are at the heart of everything we do and that starts with our incredible workforce. We promote a culture of high performance where people can aspire, thrive and flourish, where we strive to deliver best value in everything we do.
For us, success isn’t just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it together. We promote curiosity, excellence, innovation and continuous improvement.
We are values led and committed to wellbeing and inclusion for all, where our employees co-created our values of drive, integrity, respect and collaboration which inform all that we do.
We are proud to work for Cheshire East Council and believe you would be too, so come and join us!
Join us on a meaningful journey at Cheshire East Council
Join a team that’s compassionate, forward-thinking and deeply committed to making a difference. Our residents are at the heart of everything we do, and your role will be a key part of our transformation journey. This is your chance to be part of something meaningful where your ideas, energy and work can create real impact every day.
About the Role:
1. Dealing with telephone and email enquiries from colleagues, parents and schools.
2. Maintaining records of applications and decisions using software.
3. Managing your administrative workload and working accurately and carefully as part of a team to ensure that applications and queries are dealt with within a timely and efficient manner.
This is just a snapshot of some of the exciting things you’ll be doing in role, to find out more about the other key responsibilities of the role please view the attached job description.
About you:
4. Previous administrative experience
5. Good literacy, numerous and ICT skills
6. Able to organise own workload and work as part of a team
7. Good understanding of data protection and confidentiality