Business Support Officer

Business Support Officer - Part Time

• Company:
  Enfield Council
• Salary: £33,609 to £36,153 a year
• Hours:
  
  Part-time
• Location:
  
  Enfield, EN1 3XA
• Job type:
  Permanent
• Posting date: 10 Sept 2026
• Closing date: 9 Oct 2026

• Service:
  Educational Psychology Service
• Role:
  Business Support Officer
• Salary:
  Scale 5 The salary advertised is for full time and pro rata for part time staff
• Contract:
  
  Part time - 18 Hours
• Location:
  
  Enfield Civic Centre

We are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. This post requires a DBS check.

The Educational Psychology Service is a thriving busy team providing essential services for children and families with special educational needs and disabilities. The service is highly valued with established links to schools / settings and works in close partnership with other services. We are proud of having a friendly and welcoming front door to our service and the operational support team are crucial in ensuring that we continue to have a great relationship with our schools, families and partners.

For further information see our website.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, positive and committed Business Support Officer (Scale
5) to join our Operational Support Team.

The post holder will:

• Be warm and able to build excellent relationships.
• Have excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Have good organisational skills and high attention to detail, with the ability to set and work to deadlines and to prioritise workloads.
• Be adaptable and able to work well under pressure using their own initiative.
• Actively support the service in setting up and maintaining office processes and procedures and managing conflicting deadlines.
• Have excellent information technology skills. Experience of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, is essential. Emerging skills in using AI are desirable.
• Have experience analysing and reporting data.

If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Delali Kokutse on  for an informal discussion.

If you have any difficulties accessing this information, please contact Farida Uddin on  or email

We do not see your name or title when shortlisting your application. This is one of many initiatives to build a more talented and diverse workforce. However, if you put your name on your CV or Statement it will be visible to us. For this reason, we ask that you do not include your name on these documents. Please note it is your responses to the Essential/Desirable criteria, as detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification which is available on the job advert, that will determine if you are shortlisted for an interview, therefore we encourage you to always address the essential and desirable criteria in your application/CV.

• An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
• Up to 32 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.
• A blend of remote and office based working for most roles.
• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.
• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.
• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.
• Health and leisure discounts and tax-free bikes for work.
• 1 month's paid sabbatical for registered Social Workers working in Children's Social Care.

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That's why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do - by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we'd love to hear from you - and of course we are always happy to talk flexible working, find out more.

Certain posts in the Council are 'politically restricted' which means that staff employed in these posts may not undertake political activities either in or outside the workplace and therefore if candidates are affiliated with any political party, we may not be able to proceed with their application.