Business Support Officer

What you will be doing:
This is a supporting role working within the Business Support Team, to provide administrative support to professional teams within Kingswood Hub and Westgate Centre, Yate. These teams sit under Children’s Services and are responsible for the safety and welfare of children and young people. This role will primarily include supporting with taking minutes for child protection & safeguarding meetings and some general administrative support. Accuracy and attention to detail is required for taking minutes and inputting/ retrieving information from the specialised databases maintained in the department, for example, searching for personal information relating to a child or young person. Candidates with experience of note taking would be desirable.

What you will need:

• Previous experience of office administration.
• The ability and flexibility to work across and support a wide range of services within the Council and the ability to work with other partner or commissioned organisations.
• Must demonstrate good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office packages and an ability to manipulate data in excel to produce relevant management information.
• The ability to use Microsoft word, process and lay out documents to a high standard is essential.
• Ability to assimilate new information quickly.

What do you need to have:
Strong IT skills are required as you will be working in both MS Office and bespoke systems. Customer service skills are also needed as you will be dealing with enquiries from both the public and internal parties.

Hours:
8.30am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday.

Salary:
£12.80 per hour.

Our Brief:
Simple Recruitment are acting as an employment business on behalf of our client, based in the Bristol area, who are seeking Business Support Officer to join their team on a temporary basis