Business Support Officer - MASH

Post Title: Business Support Officer

Team: Children & Young People – Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub Team

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 18.5 hours Monday, Tuesday 8.45am-5pm, Wednesday (AM)  

Salary: Grade 7: £12,147 - £12,989

Based: 3 Knowsley Place / Agile worker

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Support Officer within our Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub team, this role provides administrative support to the front-line teams and you will be based at Bury Police Station. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting Social Workers, Health and Education professionals to ensure the safeguarding and best possible outcome for children and young people.

Childrens’ Services places the interests of children firmly at the centre of everything we do, working with families to offer quality advice, support and guidance.

We are looking for an organised, self-motivated and professional individual who is able to provide a high level of administrative support. You will be part of a welcoming and supportive team working in a rewarding and fast paced environment, dealing with on-line and phone referrals into Childrens’ Services, from the public and a wide range of professionals including the Police, Health and Education. You will enjoy working to tight deadlines and a high degree of accuracy is essential.

-      You will have exceptional organisational skills in order to work under pressure to complete tasks to potentially conflicting deadlines, without direct line management, re-prioritising your own work as appropriate or allocating tasks to others.

-      You will be capable of resolving problems, using your own initiative to provide practical solutions.

-      You will be experienced in using computer packages and be confident in quickly being able to use bespoke software used within different services.

-      Excellent communications skills will be required, together with high levels of customer service skills to deliver polite, courteous and efficient service to colleagues, partners and service users.

In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your CV application covers your full employment history and that a reason is noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted. Due to the work location of the role, appointment is also subject to your consent to and passing of Greater Manchester Police security checks.

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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore, we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria. 

For an informal chat regarding the role, please contact Gill Berry on 0161 253 5454 or gillian.berry@bury.gov.uk

Please submit your CV application with supporting statement by the closing date.

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