Business Support Officer
Southwark
£18.50/hr
Full time: 36/hrs a week
Start date: ASAP

AKTON Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and we are booking for a Business Support Officer in the Southwark area to Children's and Adults' Services. Enhanced DBS required. Must have excellent working knowledge of the full Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio). Good time management, shows initiative, a good team player, able to work under pressure and multi task. Experience of working in a busy team

PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To provide financial, IT, and business support for Adult Social Care Teams, to ensure the smooth running of services during operational hours. To undertake functions of an administrative nature for the each Service. To provide a reporting function for each Service.
To provide support to managers and practitioners in relation to administrative, statistical, financial information and IT matters. To contribute to the achievement of quality customer care across the all services.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Responsibilities
1. To set, maintain and review all record management systems to ensure that they are in accordance with the needs of the service.
2. To arrange meetings and events - book rooms, prepare and circulate agendas and papers and provide and circulate minutes and monitor follow up actions as necessary.
3. To regularly input monitoring information to the relevant IT systems to ensure that records are up to date.
4. To assist the team in the compilation, co-ordination, collation and distribution of management data for the purposes of regular and ad-hoc reporting on all areas of the Business.
5. To efficiently & accurately sort and log incoming mail, (both internal and external) including scanning and distribution, in accordance with procedures.

Experience:

• Literate and numerate to a level at which forms, basic statistics, correspondence and filing systems can be understood and work arising from these can be progressed.
• Previous experience in an administrative post.
• Experience of operating office and information systems.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:

• Knowledge of office procedures and administrative systems, including procurement systems
• Knowledge of generic and specific IT databases and software packages, Excel & Word
• Ability to use information technology systems to input and access data, use word processing systems and Email, or
• willingness to learn.
• NVQ Level 3 in Business Administration or equivalent years experience