Business Support Officer - The Access Place

Job Description

Corporate Services

Business Support Officer
The Access Place

Salary: £32,010 - £37,626
Hours: 36 per week

Please see attached person specification and job description.

This is a full time permanent Business Support Officer role with an emphasis on line management of business support staff who provide comprehensive and flexible business support to various teams within the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership. The post will have a main base of The Access Place however working from other offices across the city will also be required. The Business Support Officer will be responsible for the line management of business support staff and ensuring that support, via a wide range of administrative and financial tasks, is delivered to our customers and service users. You will have responsibility for the leadership and development of staff, including consideration of succession planning and resilience to ensure business continuity.

The post will have responsibility for recruitment and development and performance of all roles in their span of management as well as deputising for the Business Support Team Manager. The role will also involve managing change, process review and development. The post will involve both home and office working and will require working from various Council offices across the city.

This post is subject to a basic disclosure check.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours – The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

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