Lancashire County Council
Business Support Officer
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Job Description
School Attendance Legal Business Support Officer
Salary £25,949 - £25,989 Pro Rata
18.5 hours per week
Permanent, Part time
Chorley, Lancashire
The Access to Education Service works with schools, children, and families across Lancashire to improve engagement with and attendance at school.
As part of this, the School Attendance Legal staff undertake enforcement processes in order to discharge the local authority's statutory duty in respect of regular school attendance – including issuing penalty notices, parenting orders, education supervision orders, school attendance orders and delivering prosecutions in the magistrates' courts.
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A term-time 18.5 hours position has become available in the School Attendance Legal team.
Working in a challenging and high-pressure environment, you will use your excellent ICT, administrative and communication skills to support the delivery of School Attendance Legal enforcement; processing referrals for legal intervention in respect of school non-attendance, responding to telephone and email queries and working with our management information systems.
The team are all currently working on a hybrid basis both from home and in the office. Flexibility and choice is offered however, there will be an expectation that the successful candidate will attend the office base regularly and as part of their induction process.
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Person Specification and Job Description
Call Callum O'Donnell 01772 537209 for a discussion about the role.
In order to be considered for interview, applicants must include a supplementary statement which explains how they meet the essential criteria set out in the person specification (page 3 of the attached role document).
Please note, we are recruiting to two term-time only 18.5 hours per week positions. If you are interested in applying for both positions (so that you work 37 hours per week term-time only), this is possible and you can inform us of this if you are invited to interview.
Interview date 13/08/2026.
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