MASH Business Support Officer

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: SC5 (£33,609 – £35,109)
Work location: 48 Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7TY
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent  
Closing date: Sunday, 11th October 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 19th October 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We are looking for an organised and proactive MASH Business Support Officer to join our Children’s Services team, providing high-quality administrative and business support to support statutory and operational services within Safeguarding & Social Care. In this varied role, you will be responsible for delivering a full range of business support activities including document management, administration, data entry, meeting coordination and minute taking. You will work closely with colleagues, managers and partner agencies to ensure services operate efficiently, deadlines are met and information is managed accurately. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to continuous service improvement.

About the team

Our MASH Business Support team plays a vital role in enabling Children’s Services to deliver effective support to children, families and partner organisations. Working collaboratively across services, we provide professional, customer-focused support that helps ensure statutory responsibilities are met and key safeguarding functions run smoothly. We are a supportive and agile team that values teamwork, innovation and continuous improvement, encouraging colleagues to share ideas and contribute to enhancing the services we provide to our communities and stakeholders.

About you

We are looking for someone with experience of delivering high-quality business support or administrative services, ideally within a complex, regulated or public sector environment. You will have strong organisational skills and be able to manage competing priorities while working accurately under pressure and to tight deadlines. Essential criteria include experience of maintaining filing and information systems, data entry and record management, strong written and verbal communication skills, effective team working and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications. You will also have experience of using IT systems to support service delivery, the ability to compile and distribute information and data accurately and a commitment to continuous improvement. Most importantly, you will be a reliable, customer-focused professional who takes pride in delivering an efficient and responsive service.

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 upto 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.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk