Peripatetic Business Support Officer

Our BSO's are very important to us. They perform crucial duties to support the teams they work for. We have a great opportunity to join North Northamptonshire Council as a Peripatetic Business Support Officer. That's a fancy title you may say….well it essentially means you go wherever you are needed (pre-booked of course!) One week you may be working in our LD Team in Thrapston, the next you could be working with our locality team in Wellingborough. Working on a scheduled rota basis you will be traveling to different areas within the North of the county (Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough and East Northants) to provide administration assistance to our Care Home Review Team, CHC Team, Learning Disability Hubs and Locality Teams. If you love variety then this is the job for you! We have a network of BSO's within other teams who all support each other, and when you are not booked out to support another team you will be with our Complaints and Compliments Manager, to offer some administrative support. This role will give you great exposure to all teams within Adult Social Care and is a great gateway for progression. The salary for this role is £25,119 and the main base will be at Haylock House, Kettering. We will pay travel (mileage) expenses for you to travel to the other offices. You will be required to carry out specific administration tasks, in order to support the professionals in a busy team. Applicants will be able to demonstrate good communication skills and be confident on the telephone. You will have a good level of IT skills with a sound knowledge of Word, Outlook and Excel and have a good attention to detail. The successful candidate will be organised and be able to use their own initiative. We need someone who is able to work under pressure and to deadlines and who is friendly and reliable. The main duties of the role are answering the phone, entering data on the database, maintaining spreadsheets and taking minutes at meetings. Support will be given on all aspects of the role from both team members and the other BSO's within other Adult Social Care teams.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups., Our Values and Behaviours Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are: Customer-focused Respectful Efficient Supportive Trustworthy Our Key Commitments Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most. We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council's pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status. We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030. Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we're transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people. You'll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising that you think! Why choose us? We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.