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Business Officer
Job Reference Ref/1675/4681
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
About the role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to gain experience within the Local Authority and develop knowledge and understanding of Children’s Services? The Quality Assurance and Practice Improvement Service are seeking a full time (37 hour) Business Officer to support the new contextual safeguarding processes which support children at risk in the community, where all children and young people assessed as being at significant risk of harm will be subject to a multi-agency Risk Outside The Home (ROTH) Conference.
This role will include the convening, minuting and the administration of the ROTH conferences, which will be held face to face. There is an expectation of travel around the County, however the role includes a mix of office and home working, and the base for this role will be negotiable for the ideal candidate.
You will need to be flexible in your approach to work as one of your main duties will be travelling to and minuting ROTH conferences across Cambridgeshire.
Please provide a CV detailing your previous roles and experience, qualifications and add anything else you would like to demonstrate on your supporting statement.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Angela Greenall at Angela.Greenall@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
What will you be doing?
You will work alongside the ROTH Chair, but also as part of a wider busy team so must possess good interpersonal skills.
This is a varied role which includes all aspects of convening and minute taking for ROTH conferences, so extensive administration experience is essential. Tasks of the role include but are not limited to: convening of ROTH conferences, processing reports, liaising with professionals and members of the public, updating/monitoring spreadsheets, minuting conferences, updating case records on our internal database.
About you
You will be required to provide high quality administrative support to the team, involving liaising with colleagues, professionals and members of the public over the phone and email, so excellent communication skills are essential.
You will need to have the ability to summarise and produce information in a concise manner. Minutes are recorded on a template and full training and support will be given in order to complete this task, therefore previous minute taking experience is desirable.
You will need to have the ability to prioritise your workload as this is a fast-paced role that includes convening conferences and reviews to meet with statutory deadlines. An understanding of confidentiality and data protection is imperative.
You will need to work on your own initiative; keep calm under pressure and be able to work to tight deadlines. You should have a methodical and concise approach to tasks, and a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft packages (Word and Excel) and be able to use databases.
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.
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