Business Support Officer

at  Office for Standards in Education Childrens Services and Skills

JOB SUMMARY

Regional Support Team is responsible for delivering timely and high quality inspections in all institutions that Ofsted regulates and inspects, and ensuring there are consistent standards across remits. It is also responsible for developing high quality inspectors, ensuring they are used to best effect on inspections, and supporting and promoting improvement in those services inspected and regulated.
This role sits in the Regional Support Team, which is part of the Inspection and Regulation Directorate. The team is responsible for providing high quality support to the regions to ensure the smooth running of the inspection programme; optimising quality and value for money from the contracted services of Ofsted Inspectors; and ensuring continuous improvement in regional ways of working.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Please refer to the job specification for further information.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Good written and verbal communication skills, working effectively with team members and relevant stakeholders both internally and externally to provide accurate advice and guidance.
• Understanding and successful application of how to prioritise, plan and deliver on key work activities without close supervision, demonstrating the ability to work on a series of unrelated problems simultaneously.
• Understanding and successful application of how to prioritise, plan and deliver on key work activities without close supervision, demonstrating the ability to work on a series of unrelated problems simultaneously.

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £28,352, Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills contributes £7,655 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Full details of the benefits available can be found in our Ofsted Offer brochure.
Ofsted is devoted to equality, diversity and inclusion. Within our Ofsted Strategy 2023-2027 we have stated that we will improve the representation of under-represented groups across the organisation and publish our progress on this annually. We are always looking to expand on our diverse workforce by recruiting candidates from varied backgrounds and differing experiences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident – Leader, we continually engage with our 5 staff networks for protected characteristics, and highlight the work of our Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Group. We ensure all candidates are treated with fair and open competition, with all appointments being made on merit and we use our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) to provide assurance to all candidates of this.
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NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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