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How You\’ll Make a Difference

As an Administrator for the Business Support Team, you will provide a fully comprehensive business and administration service to the Social Care team in North Locality, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements of the department in a constantly changing environment.

How You\’ll Make a Difference

As an Administrator for the Business Support Team, you will provide a fully comprehensive business and administration service to the Social Care team in North Locality, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements of the department in a constantly changing environment.

Our team makes a real difference, working alongside professionals to ensure the best possible outcomes for children and young people within South Gloucestershire. Your work helps the team, council and other partner agencies to support and safeguard vulnerable families in the community.

What You Will Be Doing

• Working alongside our experienced staff, you will act as a main point of contact for the service area and provide effective communication when dealing with enquiries and information requests.
• Day to day, you will provide administrative support to managers ensuring work carried out is efficient and procedures are effectively implemented. This will include minute taking for key meetings.
• You will have the opportunity to learn how to research information within your area of service specialism and collate evidence for presentation in reports. This may include drafting sections of documents for use by others.
• It will be key for you to collate and maintain records and analyse information to ensure accurate statements are produced and data is retrieved from computerised systems and interpreted.
• You will be taught how communicate specific concerns, queries and issues and ensure they are accurately and promptly relayed when necessary.
• The role also requires you to accurately record and assist in the monitoring and maintaining of budgets, financial information and resources.

What We Need From You

• We require you to hold an NVQ 2 or 3 GCSE’s grades C/4 or above or have equivalent qualification or relevant experience in office administration.
• It is key for you to take and type accurate minutes of meetings, with the skill to format documents to a high standard.
• It is essential that you can communicate effectively to customers, professionals and partnership agencies using a variety of media i.e. email, phone, face to face etc.
• You will have great IT skills and know its practical application, including experience of using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and maintaining computerised record systems.
• We require you to have experience in using databases, including running standard reports, analysing data and presenting findings, together with experience of basic financial procedures i.e. petty cash, invoicing etc.
• Although not essential, you may have experience of dealing with challenging calls from and to young people regarding life skills and life experiences.

What You Need To Know

• This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our Patchway Hub office and working from home. Subject to change.
• Interviews are due to take place on 14th August 2025.

How a Career At South Gloucestershire Council Is Different

• As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities.
• We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.
• We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.
• We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here.

• We\’re building and shaping communities which people are proud of.
• We\’re working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life.
• We\’re investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential.

We\’ve achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.

We’re making a difference, be part of it!

To view the full job description, please click this link: Locality Business Support Officer – Job Description

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

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  Full-time

Job function

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  Administrative

• Industries

  Government Administration

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