Job Description

The Business Support & Finance Team provides administrative, financial, money management, audit, debt recovery and technical support to Adult Social Care, ensuring our service delivery, standards and data quality are delivered effectively and to consistent standards. Providing general administrative support to the teams and managers to ensure efficiency of service, providing a stakeholder interface to assist social care workers and commissioning teams.
Organisation
Cheshire East Council
Location
Macclesfield
Job Category
Administration
Grade
CEC NJC - Grade 5
Salary Min
26,403 per annum
Salary Max
28,142 per annum
Hours per week
37
Weeks per year
52.143
Employment Type
Permanent
Closing Date
11/09/2025
Ref No
E3214
Documents
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Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
At Cheshire East Council we are working for a brighter future - together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Cheshire East's Business Support & Finance Team for someone to join our team on a permanent full-time basis to provide administrative support to our adult social care services in the Borough. The position will be based at Macclesfield Town Hall.
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate they are enthusiastic, reliable, good communicator who works on their own initiative and as part of a team. A high level of accuracy and a good attention to detail is essential. They will be expected to use social care database alongside payment and invoice systems to support resolving queries. This post is ideally suited to an experienced administrator who can demonstrate good organisational and numerical skills.
For any enquiries, please contact Jenny Bracken
Email:
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are 'not protected' as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however please do not be discouraged from applying again.
For any technical enquiries please email
Please quote job reference number in all correspondence.

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