Business Support Officer

Do you enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, providing excellent support to your team? Do you thrive as a team-player and enjoy using your initiative to work independently? Our Business Support Service is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic, and organised Business Support Senior Officers who can ensure that a high level of administrative support is provided to our departments. Our Business Support Service is a centralised unit which has been formed to deliver a co-ordinated, consistent, and high-quality service supporting service delivery across the organisation.

Business Support is critical to ensuring our departments can support services to our residents, and if you have great administrative skills and a strong customer focus, you could be part of it. You'll be working as part of the central Business Support Service with more than 400 colleagues, and you'll be supporting our departments to ensure they are able to deliver critical services to the residents of Hertfordshire.

CURRENT VACANCIES - PLEASE INDICATE ON YOUR COVERING PARAGRAPH WHICH VACANCY YOU ARE INTERESTED IN Senior Business Support Officer - SfYP Location: Stevenage Hours: 37 Contract: Permanent Join our Business Support Team and provide administrative support to Services for Young People, helping young people across Hertfordshire achieve positive outcomes and a successful transition to adulthood., This is a hybrid role, with most work carried out remotely and one day per week in the office to support team collaboration and service delivery., The role is to support the Business Support Supervisor within the Adult Disability Service and tasks will include but are not limited to: Collating data in regard to Financial Services and helping to devise and manage a process to ensure that funds are recovered for purchases made on behalf of people we support Booking, attending and minuting meetings, as required Providing cover for the Business Support Supervisor at Budget Meetings and Managers Meetings when required Being a purchasing card holder and purchasing items as required, reconciling purchases, raising purchase orders and ensuring invoices are paid Collating information regarding Travel Bookings Being a key holder to the safe and petty cash, reconciling payments and visiting the bank to replenish cash Monitoring Business Continuity Plans for the teams Being the Co-Ordinator for MAPPA (Probation Service), completing a rota for meeting attendance and sharing meeting invites Compiling Rotas for Occupational Therapists and Business Support Officers.

Monitoring the completion of Allocation / Waiting List Spreadsheets completed by BSOs., The Senior Business Support Officer provides high-quality administrative and business support to the Herts Home Improvement Agency (HHIA), ensuring the efficient running of the service. The role includes coordinating meetings, producing accurate minutes and action logs, building positive relationships with stakeholders, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery and efficiency.

Please contact for more information. About the role Our Business Support Service supports a range of departments. If you are particularly interested in an area, please specify in your application. If we do not have any vacancies for your preferred area at this time your application will be held in a talent pool, and you will be contacted when a vacancy arises. All roles tend to be hybrid, which will mean that you will be expected to work within one of Hertfordshire County Council's offices on a regular basis as well as working from home.

The hiring manager will discuss the details for each particular vacancy. Children's Services You will be supporting services across Children's Safeguarding, Specialist, Education, Skills & Inclusion who ensure Hertfordshire families, children & young people have the right support, guidance and advice, some roles may involve exposure to sensitive information & a DBS may be required f