Business Officer (Education - Attendance and Admissions)
| Posting date: | 03 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £24,294 to £25,979 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2024 |
| Location: | March, PE15 9LS |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Ref/63127/4726 |
Summary
We are seeking to appoint a part time Business Officer to provide administrative support to the School Attendance team in carrying out the Local Authority’s statutory duties in relation to the processing of penalty notices and Children Missing from Education. The post holder will work closely alongside the Senior Business Officer, County Attendance Manager and County Legal Manager as well as carrying out general office duties as required supporting with Elective Home Education and other areas of admissions and attendance. Experience of using Excel is essential example: filtering, sorting, data input.
The successful candidate will have an office base at Young People March, City Road, March although we are able to offer Hybrid working arrangements (this role will be a flexible work model which will be remote and office based). You will have experience of working within a busy office environment. Ideally you will have knowledge of Local Authority working/Education Services, and have experience in partnership working with other agencies, teams and services.
In terms of working pattern, we can be flexible although there is a service requirement to you to commit to working Thursday and Friday.
Interviews will be held 2-4 weeks after application deadline.
For further information or a conversation about this role please email donna.symonds@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefitsWe 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
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
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