Leadership Support Officer
| Posting date: | 19 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £31,537 to £34,434 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 December 2025 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX2 0BY |
| Company: | Oxfordshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | OCC/TP/884/1590 |
Summary
Make a Difference in Oxfordshire
Do you want to support our ambition of a fair, safe, and legal marketplace for Oxfordshire? Do you want to be part of a team that champions consumer protection and supports business growth? If so, we invite you to join us as our next Leadership Support Officer.
About Us
At Oxfordshire County Council, we’re proud to be an ambitious, forward-thinking employer. Our Trading Standards team is friendly, supportive, and dedicated to making a real impact. We enforce over 200 laws and regulations to protect consumers and ensure businesses can compete fairly. For example, we enforce laws and give advice on:
- how food is labelled and described,
- age restrictions for cigarettes and fireworks
- petroleum storage
- electrical product safety
- scam prevention
- livestock animal disease control
- describing products and services accurately, and so on.
We offer a flexible working culture, excellent learning and development opportunities, and a commitment to supporting your ongoing growth.
About the Role
As a Leadership Support Officer, you’ll play a vital role in supporting our regulatory officers and managers.You’ll help ensure our team has the systems, training, and administrative support needed to deliver high-quality outcomes for Oxfordshire.
This is a varied and dynamic position—perfect for someone who enjoys new challenges and thrives in a collaborative environment. You’ll:
- Lead the administration and issuing of licences for products such as explosives, petroleum, and our trader scheme.
- Use your strong IT skills to manage data, run reports, and analyse information.
- Help our officers and apprentices in their role by supporting the service and individuals with recognising, sourcing, and administration of training needs.
- Provide stand-in financial and administrative support.
- Work primarily from our Oxford office, with opportunities to work at home and elsewhere.
About You
We’re looking for an enthusiastic, dedicated professional who is:
- Organised, efficient, and works to high accuracy in their work.
- Self-motivated with excellent time management skills.
- Good at prioritising their work loads.
- A strong communicator and a natural collaborator, since you will be, for example, working across the service and with businesses.
- Trustworthy, practical, and adaptable and a strong work ethic.
- Very experienced with management systems since it plays a vital part in our work. You will be primarily responsible for ensuring it is maintained.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite – Excel, Word, etc.
Rewards and Benefits
- Up to 31 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Option to buy additional holiday
- Employee assistance programme for health and wellbeing
- Local government contributory, average salary pension scheme
- Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
- Flexible working policies
- Enhanced, family friendly policies
Interested?
For more details, see the full job description.
If you’d like an informal chat about the role, please contact Davina Walkin or Richard Rockall at davina.walkin@oxfordshire.gov.uk or Richard.rockall@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Ourcommitment to:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce.Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or on maternity or family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peersupport, education and safe spaces for all.
Ourcommitment to:
Guaranteed Interview Schemes
As a DisabilityConfident employer, we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job.We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education, we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships.We are alsocommitted to helping andsupporting those transitioning from HM ArmedForces to civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of leaving the service.
Ourcommitment to:
Safeguarding
Oxfordshire County Council arecommitted to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers toshare thiscommitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect these commitments.
Ourcommitment to:
Flexible Working
We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, part time working, jobsharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.
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