About Haringey

Haringey Council is one of 32 in London. Haringey is an extremely diverse borough, and the Council has set clear ambitious objectives through its borough plan to make Haringey a better place to live, encourage investment and create opportunities that all can share. Haringey’s vision for the future is one of sustainable growth, in housing and jobs and on helping our residents and businesses take advantage of that growth. We have got huge ambitions for Haringey. As the shape of local government continues to change, we are determined to rise to the challenge and find new ways to ensure that our residents enjoy the best opportunities in life. Working at Haringey gives you the opportunity to play a part in meeting those ambitions on behalf of everyone who calls the borough their home.

About the Role

• To provide professional business support that facilitates the delivery of frontline services and the council
• Ensuring the delivery of an effective and efficient service within required timescales and in line with corporate and service policies and operating guidelines
• To work in partnership with services to ensure that any risks, issues or opportunities are identified and quickly
• To champion continuous improvement to ensure that services are efficient as possible.
• To work to a quality standard of right first time every time

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

About You

• Provide effective business support to meet the statutory and operational requirements of Children’s Service
• Proactively develop skills, knowledge and abilities in delivering a high quality business support service to Children’s Service.
• Be aware of policies, procedures and statutory legislation that impacts on your role and Children’s Services. Regularly update that knowledge in order to give correct service information and advice and allow job rotation as required.
• Organise and prioritise own workload, renegotiating targets/deadlines as conflicting demands.
• Carry out all accountabilities in compliance with the Council’s Policies and Procedures.
• Liaise effectively, professionally and co-operatively with Business Support staff and service users, always presenting an efficient image of Business Support.
• Provide cover for colleagues and undertake any other work assigned consistent with the duties and responsibilities of an agile.
• Maintain accurate and effective communication with line management (to include the provision of reports and presentations) ensuring that they are regularly appraised of planned changes and developments.

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