Senior Business Officer

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About the role

Are you an ambitious and inspirational individual with the capability to make a difference to people's lives?

Then we want to hear from you!

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Senior Business Officer to support our SEND Team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an established high performing team with an outstanding reputation for leading the way in the Statutory Process for young people.

If you have the passion to support the Sensory and Visually Impaired Service for young people and families to manage the demand currently within the service and supporting children and young people with highly complex needs, whilst looking at ways to streamline processes at the heart of everything you do and the ambition to help shape our future, we would love to hear from you.

If you would welcome this new challenge then apply online today or, for an informal discussion about the role, contact Francine.Finan@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

What will you be doing?

The successful candidate will:

Be an individual who is focussed and flexible with the ability to work independently and as part of a bigger team.

You will be able to work under pressure to tight time scales with an ability to prioritise, organise and manage your own workload and have excellent interpersonal skills combined with the ability to represent the service in a positive and professional manner, including communicating with a wide range of stake holders and customers both internally and externally.

You will be able to handle and process large amounts of information coming into the team to ensure a professional and responsive approach is taken.

Carry out additional reasonable duties as required by the line manager.

To demonstrate awareness/understanding of equal opportunities and other people's behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs

About you

The successful candidate will be:

Educated to GCSE Standard with Grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent standard.

Extensive office administrative experience

Fully proficient at using IT systems, with a good working knowledge the Microsoft Office package

Knowledge of health and safety legislation

Knowledge of Data Protection and Equal Opportunities legislation and their requirements

Understanding of financial management, procedures, and processes

Able to prioritise workload

Able to consistently produce work of a high standard

Good interpersonal skills - able to communicate in a friendly, open, and constructive manner via email and telephone

Able to work on own initiative with minimal supervision

Commitment to continuous service development

Adaptable and flexible to the needs of the Team with a willingness to learn and develop

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage...

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don't meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don't be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• CCC Employment Benefits Brochure [November 2024].pdf
• Job description