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Job Title: Business Support Supervisors Starting Salary: £34,434 opportunity to progress to £37,280 per annum (pro-rata for part-time) Hours: up to 37 hours Location: Hertfordshire Office Base East - Stevenage, West - Apsley Contract Type: Permanent Directorate: Resources<h4>About the team</h4>Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, supervising a small team to provide an excellent business support service?  Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently?Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised managers who can supervise a team to ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments.Our Business Support Service is looking for Business Support Supervisors who will be supervising a team within the Business Support service.Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation. Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it.You’ll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you’ll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.We have the following vacancies:Children's Services - Child Protection Conference - Stevenage 37 hours -12 months Fixed Term/secondment - Maternity cover for more information contact <a href="mailto:Ian.Drummey@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">Ian.Drummey@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>Children's Services Family Safeguarding East - Stevenage 37 hours Fixed Term/Secondment until December 2026 for more information contact <a href="mailto:diane.pratt@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">diane.pratt@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>Adult Care Services - Safeguarding 18.5 hours - Covering both Stevenage and Apsley for more information please contact <a href="mailto:michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>Adult Care Services - Integrated Discharge Service Team - West - Apsley/Watford General Hospital - 37 Hours please contact <a href="mailto:michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a> <h4>About the role</h4>Business Support Supervisors will:<ul><li>Be responsible for managing a team of business supporty staff to deliver Business Support activities and quality assure their work</li><li>Allocate work within the team based on requests from the Directorate or line manager</li><li>Proactively solve issues within the team, especially related to resource allocation and demand management, and escalate as needed</li><li>Support complex Business Support activities for the Directorate, particularly cross-council tasks, leveraging expereince and knowledge</li><li>Support career development of Senior Support Officers and Support Officers</li><li>Line manage both Senior Support Offiicers and Support Officers</li></ul><h4>About you</h4>Essential:<ul><li>Extensive experience of working in a previous administrative or support role, with strong knowledge of business support activities</li><li>Excellent organisational and multitasking skills</li><li>Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with a range of audiences</li><li>The ability to develop good working relationships with managers and staff and gain a good understanding of service areas to ensure you are supporting and advising them in the most effective way possible.</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software</li><li>Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment</li><li>A proven track record of establishing and improving business processes.</li><li>Ability to plan own work over short timescales for routine or familiar tasks and processes and use your initiative to work independently.</li><li>Strong numeracy and literacy skills plus broad experience in area of expertise.</li><li>Enthusiasm and pride in your work are qualities we welcome.</li><li>You will be used to working to tight deadlines and with high accuracy in written correspondence.</li><li>Knowledge of key legislation linked with Children's Services</li><li>A strong background in finance.</li></ul>Desirable:<ul><li>Recognised vocational qualification or degree qualified.</li><li>Experience in the administration of meetings and taking notes actions would be beneficial.</li><li>Previous experience of supervising a team of administrative staff or setting longer term work priorities within a defined team.</li><li>Understanding of HR processes and procedures would be beneficial.</li></ul>We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.This job role is within the Business Support Services, level BUS9 job profile. Please locate this via:Job profiles: Business support servicesInterview Date: to be confirmed Benefits of working for us<h4>How to apply</h4>As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences. <h4>Additional information</h4>Disability Confident We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.Safeguarding This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure &amp; Barring Service (DBS) check.Secondment This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the Secondment Form as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.English Fluency The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.





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Hertfordshire County Council

Business Support Supervisors

Job Title: Business Support Officer Starting Salary: £25,583 opportunity to progress to £28,412&nbsp; Hours: up to 37 hours per week Location: Hertfordshire Contract Type: Permanent Directorate: Resources<h4>About the team</h4>Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, providing excellent support to your team? Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently?Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised individuals who can ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments.Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation. Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it.You’ll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you’ll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.<h4>About the role</h4>Our Business Support Service supports a range of departments. If you are particularly interested in an area, please specify in your application. If we do not have any vacancies for your preferred area at this time your application will be held in a talent pool, and you will be contacted when a vacancy arises.All roles tend to be hybrid, which will mean that you will be expected to work within one of Hertfordshire County Council’s offices on a regular basis as well as working from home. The hiring manager will discuss the details for each particular vacancy.Children’s ServicesYou will be supporting services across Childrens Safeguarding, Specialist, Education, Skills &amp; Inclusion who ensure Hertfordshire families, children &amp; young people have the right support, guidance and advice, some roles may involve exposure to sensitive information &amp; a DBS may be required for roles working in buildings where children or young people may be present.This is an opportunity to work with teams who are committed to changing the lives of children and families in Hertfordshire and you will be a key in supporting this work. This could be of interest to someone who is keen to start working within Children's Services and would like opportunities to see the work of teams firsthand and build their knowledge and skills to progress their careers.Adult Care ServicesACS focusses on enabling people to live a full and active life as independently as possible in the community. We have Older People’s and Sensory Services, Adult Disability Services, Safeguarding, DoLs and Learning &amp; Development, along with Integrated Discharge and Transfer of Care Teams, Day Opportunities and Supported Living Services. As a Business Support Officer you will undertake a variety of administrative duties depending on the service including data entry and analysis, meeting support and minute taking, receiving and making telephone calls. You may be in contact with those that use our services, and a DBS may be required in these settings.Some of the roles will not be office based but maybe in the Hosptial Teams or Supported Living Units.Public HealthYou’ll be supporting our statutory Public Health teams dealing with confidential and sensitive matters and undertaking a range of administrative duties such as meeting support, creating agendas, note and minute taking, answering telephone calls, managing surveys and providing information as a first point of contact.Growth &amp; EnvironmentYou’ll be supporting services such as Passenger Transport, Libraries, Property undertaking a range of administrative duties including meeting support, creating agendas, note and minute taking, raising purchase orders, managing invoicing and payments processes, maintaining database information and providing information as a first point of contact.<h4>About you</h4>ResourcesYou’ll be supporting services across our Resources Directorate, such as our Libraries and our Property Services, undertaking a range of administrative duties including meeting support, creating agendas, note and minute taking, raising purchase orders, managing invoicing and payments processes, maintaining database information and providing information as a first point of contactLegalYou’ll support Legal teams across Commercial, Property, AEH, CLU, Dispute Resolution, and Environment, handling confidential matters and acting as a first point of contact. Duties include minute-taking, filing, scanning, bundling court documents, preparing engrossments, and binding contracts. Legal Services follow strict standards set by the Law Society, SRA, Lexcel, and HCC policies. Accuracy and meeting deadlines are essential to prevent data breaches.We currently have the following vacancies:Childrens Services 4 x Full time, 37 hours Stevenage SEND Implementation and Stat Assessement, Services for Young People contact <a href="mailto:jonathan.white@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">jonathan.white@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a> Adoption &amp; Fostering contact <a href="mailto:Rebecca.Clarke1@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">Rebecca.Clarke1@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a> 1 x Stevenage,18.5 hours SEND SAS &amp; EY SEND, contact <a href="mailto:michael.alexander@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">michael.alexander@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a> 1 x Full time, Family Support Hemel Hempstead, Office Base 5 days a week 37 hours - contact <a href="mailto:diane.pratt@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">diane.pratt@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a>Adult Care Services1 x 37 Hours Gateway, Apsley1 x 22.5 hours Gateway, based in either Apsley or Stevenage1 x 37 Hours, Hoddesdon, Office Based, Supported Living1 x 20 Hours Integrated Discharge Team, Apsley For enquiries please contact, <a href="mailto:michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk" target="_blank">michele.blackaby@hertfordshire.gov.uk</a> Essential:<ul><li>Experience in minute or note taking</li><li>Proven experience in an administrative or support role</li><li>Excellent organisational and multitasking skills</li><li>Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with a range of audiences</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software</li><li>Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Ability to plan own work over short timescales for routine or familiar tasks and processes and use your initiative to work independently.</li><li>GCSE or Vocational equivalent, strong numeracy, and literacy skills.</li><li>Enthusiasm and pride in your work are qualities we welcome.</li></ul>Desirable:<ul><li>You will be used to working to tight deadlines and with high accuracy in written correspondence.</li></ul>This job role is within the, level 6 job profile. Please locate this via:Job profiles: Business support servicesClosing Date: This is an ongoing advert and you may be required to start work before the closing date specified.Interview Date: Please note interviews will be arranged as and when applications are received.Vacancies are being progressed regularly which may mean that a vacancy at a particular team may be filled before a candidate is put forward, however there are ongoing vacancies.We welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.Benefits of working for us<h4>How to apply</h4>As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences. Secondment This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the&nbsp;Secondment Form&nbsp;as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.<h4>Additional information</h4>Disability Confident We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.Safeguarding This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure &amp; Barring Service (DBS) check.Driving required You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.English Fluency The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.





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Business Support Officer

Job Title: Senior Business Support Officer Starting Salary: £27,694 opportunity to progress to £31,022 pa (pro-rata for part-time) Hours: up to 37 hours Location: Hertfordshire, Main Office Bases - East, Stevenage, West, Apsley Contract Type: Permanent Directorate: Resources<h4>About the team</h4>Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, providing excellent support to your team? Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently?Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised Business Support Senior Officers who can ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments.Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation. Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it.You’ll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you’ll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.<h4>About the role</h4>Our Business Support Service supports a range of departments. If you are particularly interested in an area, please specify in your application. If we do not have any vacancies for your preferred area at this time your application will be held in a talent pool, and you will be contacted when a vacancy arises.All roles tend to be hybrid, which will mean that you will be expected to work within one of Hertfordshire County Council’s offices on a regular basis as well as working from home. The hiring manager will discuss the details for each particular vacancy.Children’s ServicesYou will be supporting services across Childrens Safeguarding, Specialist, Education, Skills &amp; Inclusion who ensure Hertfordshire families, children &amp; young people have the right support, guidance and advice, some roles may involve exposure to sensitive information &amp; a DBS may be required for roles working in buildings where children or young people may be present.Adult Care ServicesACS focusses on enabling people to live a full and active life as independently as possible in the community. We have Older People’s and Sensory Services, Adult Disability Services, Safeguarding, DoLs and Learning &amp; Development, along with Integrated Discharge and Transfer of Care Teams, Day Opportunities and Supported Living Services. As a Business Support Officer you will undertake a variety of administrative duties depending on the service including data entry and analysis, meeting support and minute taking, receiving and making telephone calls. You may be in contact with those that use our services and a DBS may be required in these settings. Some of the roles will not be office based but maybe in the Hosptial Teams or Supported Living Units.Public HealthYou’ll be supporting our statutory Public Health teams dealing with confidential and sensitive matters and undertaking a range of administrative duties such as meeting support, creating agendas, note and minute taking, answering telephone calls, managing surveys and providing information as a first point of contact.Hertfordshire Fire &amp; Rescue ServiceYou’ll be supporting the teams in the Hertfordshire Fire Stations. Key duties include inputting overtime and on-call payments to HCC’s payroll system, managing the supply of uniform and PPE on behalf of operational staff, making and receiving telephone calls on behalf of the Fire Service, finance support with station budgets and purchasing, and providing information as a first point of contact. You will be expected to manage team commitments avoiding scheduling conflicts and deal with all general matters including correspondence, invoices, and timesheets according to local procedures.<h4>About you</h4>Growth &amp; Environment You’ll be supporting services such as Passenger Transport, Libraries, Property undertaking a range of administrative duties including meeting support, creating agendas, note and minute taking, raising purchase orders, managing invoicing and payments processes, maintaining database information and providing information as a first point of contact.ResourcesYou’ll be supporting services across our Resources Directorate, such as our Libraries and our Property Services, undertaking a range of administrative duties including meeting support, creating agendas, note and minute taking, raising purchase orders, managing invoicing and payments processes, maintaining database information and providing information as a first point of contactLegal Services You’ll be providing business and administrative support to the Legal teams comprising of Commercial, Property, Adult Education &amp; Health (AEH), Child Litigation (CLU), Dispute resolution, and Environment. Providing specialist professional support to Fee Earners and Managers dealing with confidential and sensitive matters, answer telephone calls and providing information as a first point of contact. In this role you will be undertaking a range of administrative duties such as minute taking, filing, scanning, photocopying, correspondence, making bundles to be sent to the courts, preparing engrossments and binding contracts.Legal Services are accredited and adhere to external standards and regulations outside of HCC within the Law Society, Solicitors Regulation Authority and Lexcel. Along with HCC policies and guidelines we adhere to strict deadlines, attention to details is paramount to avoid data breaches being made.We currently have vacancies in the following teams,2 x Legal Services&nbsp;Adult Care ServicesAdult Disabilty Service: Stevenage &amp; Apsley (Hybrid Working) Hours: 30 hours per week, across 4–5 daysWe are seeking a highly organised and adaptable Business Support Senior Officer to join our Adult Disability Services team, supporting both East and West teams. This role involves working flexibly across our Stevenage and Apsley offices, with hybrid working available based on service needs. This role requires the ability to travel independently throughout the county including to locations using your own mode of transport.Essential:<ul><li>Experience of working in a previous administrative or support role</li><li>Organisational and multitasking skills</li><li>Strong communication and interpersonal abilities with a range of audiences</li><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software</li><li>Experience in working as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.</li><li>Understanding of specialised processes and methods gained through relevant training and experience.</li><li>Ability to plan own work over short timescales for routine or familiar tasks and processes and use your initiative to work independently.</li><li>GCSE or Vocational equivalent, strong numeracy and literacy skills</li><li>Enthusiasm and pride in your work are qualities we welcome.</li><li>You will be used to working to tight deadlines and with high accuracy in written correspondence.</li><li>Experience in minute or note taking </li></ul>Desirable:<ul><li>Support with coaching and training others</li><li>Experience in processing invoices and handling financial transactions</li></ul>This job role is within the Business Support, level BUS07 job profile. Please locate this via:Job profiles: Business support servicesClosing Date: This is an ongoing advert and you may be required to start work before the closing date specified.Interview Date: Please note interviews will be arranged as and when applications are received.Vacancies are being progressed regularly which may mean that a vacancy in a particular team may be filled before a candidate is put forward, however there are ongoing vacancies.Benefits of working for usWe welcome applications from candidates who currently reside in the UK with established proof of right to work documentation. We are not able to offer sponsorship at this time for this role.<h4>How to apply</h4>As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences. Secondment This position is open to secondments. If you work for HCC or any other Local Authority and would like to be considered as a Secondment contract, please ensure you complete the&nbsp;Secondment Form&nbsp;as part of your application. If you do not, your application will be considered as a Fixed Term Contract only.<h4>Additional information</h4>Disability Confident We are proud to be a&nbsp;Disability Confident employer&nbsp;and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.Safeguarding This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure &amp; Barring Service (DBS) check.Driving required You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.English Fluency The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required).&nbsp;Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.





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