London, United Kingdom

Business Support Officer

 Job Description:

We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Hackney to assist with the appointment of a Business Support Officer, on a 10-month contract, highly likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.

Rate of Pay: £18.52 - £23.57 per Hour

Responsibilities:

  • To provide comprehensive and professional administrative support within Children and Families, ensuring that systems meet procedural requirements and that all work undertaken is produced to a consistently high standard.
  • To be accountable to managers for the maintenance of confidentiality, understanding that the work undertaken by Children and Families is of a sensitive and personal nature and must not be discussed or disclosed to any other person.
  • To provide telephone cover between 9am to 5pm ensuring that all contacts with the public and other officers is courteous and meets customer care standards. In consultation with your manager proactively participate in cover arrangements for example, annual leave, vacancies, sickness etc where the needs of the service require staff to be deployed temporarily.
  • To ensure that all correspondence received is date stamped and circulated to staff within agreed timescales and that correspondence sent out is accurate and drafted to a high standard.
  • To provide high quality word processing support using a variety of packages.

Qualifications:

  • Experience of working in an administration role
  • Experience in successfully managing a variety of projects simultaneously and achieving targets
  • Demonstrated understanding of key administration requirements of a busy office environment

Please note:

  • You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
  • You should have right to work in U.K

Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Incase the role requires an enhanced DBS, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

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  Required Skills:

Discretion Pay Confidentiality LTD Administration Maintenance Business