Our Business Officer is an important role at the heart of the high-quality care and service we provide. We invest in our Business Officers from the moment they join us. This includes sector-leading pay, benefits and training, and a career where you will make a difference every day.

The successful candidate will be part of a highly motivated team, working closely with a range of professionals, making sure we always deliver the best outcomes for our Children and Young People. Candidates will need to be comfortable with a flexible approach to tasks and be proactive in solving problems and engage positively with internal and external colleagues, partners and providers. 

For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Vicki Ashford on vicki.ashford@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or 07979 532852 or Amy Claypole on amy.claypole@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or 07879 608852.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. 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. 

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible working
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

This role works closely with the Children’s Commissioning and SEND Access to Resources Team (SEND ART), providing all administrative activities to support our service as we develop systems, processes and provisions to meet the needs of children, young people and families across Cambridgeshire.

You will establish open and ongoing communication with a range of professionals and other agencies involved in the care and welfare of service users. This will include a high level of support to the team in relation to gathering data and fulfilling an administrative role within meetings and panels as required.

Within this role you will be key to the ongoing development of the service, providing new ideas and managing change to support appropriate service delivery, provide practical, creative solutions to problems and reallocating resources as required.

You will be an organised, calm and enthusiastic individual who is motivated to work independently and as part of the wider team to achieve positive outcomes for children and young people.

To be considered for this exciting role the candidate will:

• Be an excellent communicator both spoken and written
• Be experienced with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Be able to work within processes/procedures
• Have experience in calendar management, setting up meetings and taking minutes
• Work effectively with colleagues as part of a team
• Have a willingness to learn and progress with a can-do attitude
• Have excellent attention to detail 
• Have an understanding of the principles and limits of confidentiality

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