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…
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A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
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Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
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Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
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Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
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Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
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Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
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Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
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Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
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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 the role
We are recruiting a full time, permanent Business Officer to provide high quality administrative support to the SEND Access to Resources Team.
The Access to Resources Team sits in the wider Commissioning Team and the service delivers outcomes for children and young people who need access to education placements identified through their EHCP.
Our Business Officer is an important role at the heart of the high-quality service we provide.
You will be part of a highly motivated team, working closely with a range of Education and Social Care professionals, making sure we always deliver the best outcomes for our Children and Young People. The role is a hybrid role with an office base at New Shire Hall.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Vicki Ashford, Senior Placement Officer via [email protected]
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.
What will you be doing?
This role works closely with the Children’s Commissioning Team, 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 provide high-quality administrative support to the team, helping ensure the smooth and effective delivery of services. This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop your knowledge of Children’s Education Services.
In this role, you will be required to work on your own initiative, remaining calm under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
You will need to use a methodical approach, with clear communication and strong organisational skills, confidently use Microsoft Office packages and work with databases.
You will be liaising with colleagues and professionals by phone, email and face to face and you will need to maintain a high standard of confidentiality and adhere to data protection requirements.
About you
You will be an organised, proactive and enthusiastic individual who is keen to learn and develop, an excellent communicator, both spoken and written.
Along with GCSEs in English and Maths at Grade A-C or equivalent, you will be experienced with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook packages and have the ability to work with set processes/procedures. You will have previous experience in calendar management, setting up meetings and taking minutes.
You will work effectively with colleagues as part of a team and have a willingness to learn and progress with a "can-do" attitude.
Please use your supporting statement to outline how your skills and experience meet the criteria set out in the Job Description/Person Specification attached to this vacancy.
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 Leader. 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. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process 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
