Job Title: Business Support Officer 

Post requires candidate to be entitled for work: Yes 

Salary Range: £36,508.92  to £40,374.57 

Contract Type: Permanent 

Full time/Part Time: Full Time 

Term Time only post: No 

Advert Closing Date:31/01/2025 

 

Business support officer required to support with the running of the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team. We are a small team of therapists serving the adult population of Jersey with a variety of acquired communication of swallowing impairments. The post holder will support with various administrative and data related duties including collecting and preparing data for audit, working with the EPR systems, collating information required to review the service, developing communication resources and writing leaflets under the guidance of the Speech and Language Therapists.

Job Purpose

To administer and provide comprehensive support within the Business Support function, and across Health and Community Services, providing an administrative, analytical and advisory support service. The postholder will provide individual contribution working within a team, offering first line support to services. For an informal conversation, please contact Laura Flynn on L.Flynn@health.gov.je. 

Statutory Responsibilities

Active engagement, participation and compliance with any other statutory responsibilities applicable to the role, as amended from time to time.

Job Specific Outcomes 1 of 2

  1. Provide a broad range of high level administrative support services to the relevant business area, using initiative and drawing on experience to anticipate business needs and respond accordingly.
  2. Respond to practical queries using initiative and judgement to prioritise tasks and duties, providing a customer focused service to all.
  3. Organise, input into and monitor databases to ensure accurate recording; undertake analysis and produce non-standard reports to provide the business with the information it needs to support decision-making.
  4. Proactively review relevant systems and processes within own area of work and make recommendations to continuously improve efficiency and performance, contributing as part of the wider Business Support Team.
  5. Communicate and share relevant information with stakeholders as directed by more senior colleagues, to promote collaborative working and to keep stakeholders up-to-date with events, meetings and activities.
  6. Develop and maintain an awareness of other teams and services activities, building positive relationships with them to ensure a collaborative service is provided to the business.
  7. Responsibility of processing of invoices for payments on relevant finance systems, and any relevant financial administrative processes required on behalf of management ensuring they adhere to the relevant finance public manual.
  8. To maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive personal information to ensure compliance with data protection requirements.
  9. Create and update performance measurement tools providing advice and support to managers to ensure the integrity, data quality and production of management information is accurate to meet the requirements of performance review meetings.
  10. Support the Services when there are major incidents, providing administrative support to ensure the Service in question can focus on responding to the islands needs.

Person specification

Appointees to this role will be required to adhere to and perform their duties in line with the standards identified in the States of Jersey tier 6 core accountabilities attributes and behaviour indicators.

Qualifications

Essential:

  • Educated to A level standard or NVQ level 3 in business administration or equivalent experience

Knowledge

Essential:

  • Knowledge of operating across a number of systems and adjusting to specialist systems.
  • Knowledge of supporting in a business administrative capacity.

Desirable:

  • Knowledge of medical terminology

Technical Work Based Skills

Essential:

  • Have used computer systems to enter data and retrieve data.
  • Proficient in using computer applications e.g. Microsoft Office
  • Attention to detail and ability to record information accurately with minimum supervision.
  • Strong communication skills required, primarily for the purpose of giving and receiving information, but frequent contact with others is also required.

General skills / attributes

Essential:

  • Able to accurately record information and data.
  • Ability to manage own workload within agreed timelines and escalate where issues arise.
  • Organised and self - motivated
  • Communicate effectively with colleagues to request or transmit information, ask questions, get clarification, exercise tact etc;
  • Be able to deal with routine challenges autonomously, some with a moderate level of complexity.
  • Be able to operate within a number of specialised IT and software systems.
  • Be able to carry out skills, complicated established activities.

Experience

Essential:

  • Practical relevant work experience in the provision of broad administrative support within a complex business model.
  • Ability to manage a varied workload.
  • In depth understanding of administrative methods that have been learned through direct job experience.

 

Across the Jersey public service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wider range of opportunities – to work with recognised experts across teams, learn new skills and develop their careers. We actively look to recruit people from different backgrounds, with diverse perspectives. This creates a richer, more varied environment, where you’re exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking and new opportunities, so you can develop an exciting and rewarding career.

 

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