Business Support Officer
Team: Business Support Team, Family Help
Job family: Providing - CBG5
Salary: £25,583 - 25,989 per annum pro rata
Hours: 37 hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.
Contract Type: Hybrid - Fixed Term 12 months
Closing Date: 7th April 2026
Interview Date: W/C 13th April 2026
About the role:
Central Bedfordshire Council Family Help Service is excited to offer the opportunity for the role of Business Support Officer. You will be an experienced administrator joining a small, innovative and experienced team that is well-established in the Family Help Service.
Our busy social work teams in the Family Help Service are responsible for providing support and protection to children and family’s in need. They work to keep children safe from harm and to fulfil their potential. The Business Support Officers are an integral to the Family Help teams, providing comprehensive business and administrative support for meetings, carrying out financial administration, helping to ensure cost effective provision of resources, organising and providing administrative support to multi agency panels, recording decisions and sending out letters and minutes.
You will be an experienced administrator, you will be used to working with a small team and have the emotional resilience to process information of a sensitive nature. Your role will be supporting our social work teams to support and safeguard vulnerable children and their families. You will need to evidence the following key skills in order to be successful in the role:
- A collaborative mindset, enjoy working with others to solve problems.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Work independently, and able to prioritise tasks and work to deadlines.
- Familiar with systems such as Microsoft word and Excel.
- Ability to prioritise competing responsibilities.
- Ability to work flexibly and enjoy working in fast changing environment.
In return will offer you the opportunity to develop, progress your career and find your greatness.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies detailed within this Recruitment Pack
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Nina Page at nina.page@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 4044 or Sarah Broderick sarah.broderick@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 5671
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Safeguarding
Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.
To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
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