Business Support Officer L3

Contract Type:
Permanent

Working Hours:

8.30am to 16.50pm Monday to Friday.

Worker Type:
Hybrid Worker.

Salary:
Starting Salary is £27,709 (Level one) rising to £28,608 (Level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location:

Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG

We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…

Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.

In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.

You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here .

You will be working as a Business Support Officer for very busy children social care teams, being responsible for supporting the social workers, as well as team managers, with a high-quality administrative service.

Daily tasks will include in between others: taking and screening phone calls and taking detailed messages; minuting meetings; booking meeting rooms and interpreters; arranging travel for colleagues and parents attending contact with their looked after children; composing letters to families, carers and professionals; saving information and documents to the database; completing funding forms and seeking agreements; purchasing items using a purchase card;

issuing cash payments to colleagues, parents, carers and young people and complete the relevant cash handling and reconciliations processes associated to this; completing procurement processes to enable payment of invoices; arranging bank transfers; completing paperwork for and managing the processes of children looked after health assessments.

• One year experience in business support, administration, customer service or similar role and commitment to a quality customer focused service.
• Ability to plan and organise own workload flexibly.
• Extensive experience of using the MS office suite.
• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels face to face, on the telephone and by email.
• Ability to undertake high level office administrative duties.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Support and take accurate minutes of meetings.
• A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
• The role requires you to work 1-2 days a week from the office on a rota basis.

You can find the job description for this post here .

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Ximena Neal, by email at ximen or Tom White, by email at tom

Closing Date: 1st November 2026

Interviews will be held: 12 th November 2026