Gloucestershire County Council
Business Admin Lead
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Business Admin Lead
Job Location: Shire Hall, Block 5, 1st Floor
Salary: £37,280 - £40,777 per annum
Hours per Week: 37.00
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 12/08/2026
Job Requisition Number: 14624
This post is not open to job share
Would you like to work in a role which is both meaningful and rewarding, where you really feel that you make a difference? Do you constantly look for ways to improve the way you work and enhance the service that you deliver? If so, this is the perfect role for you.
About Us
This is a great time to be part of Gloucestershire County Council, as Children’s Social Care is on an exciting journey, which focuses our approach into being more creative, strengths-based and person-centred, to ensure that we work together to ‘Make a Difference’ to our local communities.
We are an agile working organisation with a combination of office-based working and working from home (essential equipment is provided). We place a high premium on diversity and inclusion, as well as on health and wellbeing and we offer a flexible working scheme which is based on business need. We offer Continued Professional Development and will support you to develop your skills and career prospects within Children’s Services.
About the Team and Role
Our Disabled Children’s Team is dedicated to improving outcomes for children and young people and their families, we work collaboratively across social care and health to provide high quality support.
We have an opportunity to recruit an experienced Business Administration Lead who is organised and proactive to join us on a permanent basis. This role will manage a team of Business Support Administrators who offer administration support to Social Workers and Managers. The Business Administration Lead will have a lead role in ensuring care package providers receive accurate and timely payments which are essential to support continued delivery of essential services for children and young people. This will include overseeing all areas of financial transactions that are made within the team including, invoices, direct payments, purchase cards and bacs payments. This post will be based in Shire Hall Gloucester.
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Duties will include:
- Supervision with team members and completion of Personal Development Reviews
- Performance and Absence Management
- Use of financial data to drive performance
- Quality assurance oversight to financial trackers
- Work closely with commissioning colleagues to ensure contracts are maintained
- Attend query meetings to understand and rectify delays in payment
- Manage capacity to ensure operational admin support is delivered in line with service need
About You
As a Business Administration Lead, you will work closely with the Head of Service, Service Manager, commissioning colleagues and strategic finance teams. Ideally you will have experience of working within children’s services, social care, education or the public sector. You will have a keen interest in finance, understand how financial decisions impact the wider objectives and performance and be solution focused.
About Us
In return we will offer you:
- Regular formal and informal support.
- Safe, supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision.
- Access to relevant training and career progression.
- Annual leave of 25.5 days (pro rata) up to 30.5 days (pro rata) after 5 years employment.
- Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- Staff discount scheme that offers access to great savings including discounts with major supermarket chains and high street retailers.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) network and the Young Employees Network.
- Gloucestershire Salary Sacrifice Green Car Scheme (T&C's apply).
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Working in Children’s Social Care does require an applicant who can be proactive or responsive to changing demands and resilient to some of the tough emotional content of the role. However, it is also a role that can bring great reward and job satisfaction.
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below: Business Administration Lead (Children’s) - Job Profile
The council is not currently able to offer sponsorship in this role. Candidates will need to have the right to work that enables them to commit to at least 6 months' employment. Right to work is not transferable from a sponsored role held with another employer.
Applications from any Gloucestershire County Council's employees who are currently on the redeployment register or at risk of redundancy will be considered first at shortlisting stage.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.
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