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Do you have great communication skills? Are you someone who is customer focussed? Are you looking for a role that is hybrid working allowing you a great work/life balance?
If the answer is yes, then we have an exciting opportunity for a part-time Business Support Officer to help support our Health and Adult Services Heads of Service and the wider Business Support Team. There are two roles available, one permanent role and one fixed term to 31 March 2025.
The role
The role as a Business Support Officer, you will provide an efficient and effective support service to a wide variety of team within Health & Adult Services. The role encompasses a wide range of functions including the data collection and inputting, formatting of documents, coordinating diaries and meetings, other general administration tasks. You should be able to undertake minute taking, providing high-level support to meetings and producing an accurate record, to a high standard.
What you will bring
The ideal candidate must be highly motivated, enthusiastic, conscientious and flexible to change. To be successful you must be able to demonstrate good use of computer packages, such as Excel and Word, bespoke systems and/or data entry, have excellent communication skills both verbal and written, as well as exceptional customer care skills suitable for dealing with colleagues, clients and stakeholders, and have the ability to problem solve.
You must be able to prioritise your own workload, be conscientious, well-organised, have the ability to work with limited supervision and meet deadlines as well as being flexible in your approach. Accuracy and attention to detail is critical together with a strong commitment to confidentiality and excellent customer service. Experience in minute taking is preferably but not essential as full training will be provided.
What’s in it for you
You will be surrounded by a supportive, established team of professionals who will help you grow and develop within this role. As a North Yorkshire Council employee you will have access to some great benefits via our everybody benefit’s scheme such as shopping discounts, home technology and green car salary sacrifice schemes, financial wellbeing and health assured and our employee assistance programme to assist with your health and wellbeing. You will also have access to our local government pension scheme, a generous plan for your retirement with the option to increase your monthly contribution if you so wish.
Key dates
- Closing date: 2 April 2024
- Interview date: 9 April 2024 - Please note the interviews will be held in County Hall, Racecourse Lane, Northallerton.
We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
North Yorkshire Councils’ purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other’s contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
