SCiES Business Support Assistant (E3320)
SCiES Business Support Assistant
Are you looking to broaden your experience in a dynamic, child-focused team? The SCiES (Safeguarding Children in Education Settings) team is offering an exciting secondment opportunity for a Business Support Assistant to join us in supporting safeguarding across Cheshire East’s education settings. The small team support Cheshire East schools and settings in their safeguarding duties through a service level agreement (SLA).
About the Role
As a Business Support Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in the smooth running of the SCiES team, helping to ensure that safeguarding processes are efficient, responsive, and well-communicated. This is a varied and rewarding role that combines administrative, financial, and communication duties with opportunities to contribute to quality assurance and data management.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality administrative support including inbox management, training and meeting coordination, minute-taking, and correspondence.
- Act as a first point of contact for schools and services, responding to safeguarding-related enquiries or passing them on to the Safeguarding Officers in the team.
- Manage sensitive notifications and multi-agency information requests (e.g. self-harm, domestic abuse, child exploitation).
- Support the distribution of safeguarding policies, guides, audits, and service communications.
- Assist with financial processes including ordering, invoicing, and SLA tracking.
- Maintain recording systems (e.g. SharePoint, Excel) and produce performance reports.
- Coordinate school staff development activities including training, supervision and reviews.
- To carry out any reasonable duty as directed by managers of the service.
What You’ll Gain
- Experience in a fast-paced safeguarding environment.
- Opportunities to develop skills in data analysis, stakeholder communication, and service coordination.
- A chance to contribute to improving outcomes for children and young people across Cheshire East.
Who We’re Looking For
- A proactive and organised individual with strong communication skills and experienced with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- An ability to have high degree of accuracy when inputting data and sharing safeguarding information.
- The ability to prioritise your workload to meet deadlines.
- Someone who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about safeguarding.
- Experience in administrative or business support roles is essential; knowledge of safeguarding processes is desirable.
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/employee-benefits.aspx
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality administrative support including inbox management, training and meeting coordination, minute-taking, and correspondence.
- Act as a first point of contact for schools and services, responding to safeguarding-related enquiries or passing them on to the Safeguarding Officers in the team.
- Manage sensitive notifications and multi-agency information requests (e.g. self-harm, domestic abuse, child exploitation).
- Support the distribution of safeguarding policies, guides, audits, and service communications.
- Assist with financial processes including ordering, invoicing, and SLA tracking.
- Maintain recording systems (e.g. SharePoint, Excel) and produce performance reports.
- Coordinate school staff development activities including training, supervision and reviews.
- To carry out any reasonable duty as directed by managers of the service
For an informal discussion please contact rebekah.norbury2@cheshireeast.gov.uk.
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
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