Business Support Officer - Safeguarding and Legal

Warrington Borough Council; Warrington; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A local governmental body in Warrington is seeking a part-time Business Support Officer for the Safeguarding and Legal team. This role involves providing high-quality administrative support, including minuting meetings and managing sensitive information. Ideal candidates must have excellent communication and IT skills, and a commitment to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and families. Additionally, you'll enjoy 26 days of annual holiday, with various benefits available.

Benefits

26 days annual holiday

Access to a competitive benefits package

Access to Health & Wellbeing Programme

Qualifications

• Experience in providing a professional administrative service.
• Capability to handle sensitive information confidentially.
• Commitment to improving outcomes for children and families.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality administrative support within the Business Support team.
• Attend meetings, take formal minutes, and upload data post-meeting.
• Support frontline teams and handle ad-hoc tasks from shared inbox.

Skills

Good IT skills with experience in a range of software

Experience of data-inputting

Experience of call-handling

Excellent team-working skills

Ability to multi-task and prioritize

Excellent communication skills

Ability to work on own initiative

Good decision-making skills

Flexibility and able to work under pressure

Job description

Business Support Officer - Safeguarding and Legal

About us

The Business Support Team within Children’s Social Care have an exciting new opportunity for an experienced admin/business support officer.

We are offering a Permanent, part time Business Support Officer role with an opportunity to support our Frontline Teams to deliver a first class service to the children, young people and families we support.

The role

Providing a professional, high quality administrative/business support service within the Business Support team. This will include support for of a range of different processes and following a variety of procedures.

We need you to provide an excellent support service to our Child in Need and Child in Care Teams by providing a minuting service - including setting agendas, taking formal minutes and uploading data post-meeting.

You will work as a key part of the team, using initiative and problem-solving to support the service to achieve its objectives, including seeking out responses to queries/undertaking any ad-hoc tasks/pieces of work that come into the shared inbox which may also include support for financial processes such as procurement.

You will be part of a small team of similar post-holders but also part of a wider team with other duties that you may have opportunity to be involved in, should you wish to grow and develop your knowledge and skills. Please see the job description for more detail on the role and the person specification to see if your skills and experience match what the role requires.

It’s important for us to make you aware that this post will be leading on Business Support for our Safeguarding & Legal Service – this means that a big part of the role will be attending meetings where you might be hearing and inputting sensitive and sometimes upsetting information about very vulnerable children and young people.

This means the utmost confidentiality is required along with a high level of personal resilience. You will of course be supported fully if needed, we just feel it’s important to highlight that information at the out-set. It’s a really rewarding and important role that will support our Front Line workers to keep children safe in Warrington.

What's needed?

We are looking for someone with the following experience and qualities:

• Good IT skills with experience in a range of software
• Experience of data-inputting
• Experience of call-handling
• Excellent team-working skills
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise and organise workload despite interruptions
• Excellent communication skills with a confidence to communicate with colleagues and partners at all levels
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Good decision-making skills · Flexible and able to work under pressure
• Committed to improving outcomes for children & families

Hours of Work:

As well as a competitive salary, working for us means you get:

• 26 days annual holiday - raising to 31 after 5 years of service (pro-rata)
• Access to our attractive and competitive benefits package
• Access to our Health & Wellbeing Programme

Key Dates & Further Information

If you have any further questions or for an informal chat then please contact (via email in the first instance) - Gabriella Murphy - [emailprotected]

The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post.

Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer

Warrington Borough Council Offices, 1 Time Square, Warrington, WA1 2NT