UK Health Security Agency Hiring for Business Support Officer Full Time

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours, Experience, Strengths and Technical skills.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a Statement of Suitability (in no more than 500 words). This should outline how you consider your skills, experience and achievements, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria outlined.

You will also be asked to provide information within the Employer/ Activity history section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history (this will be used in sifting process and will be scored).

STAGE 1 – APPLICATION & SIFT:
Please submit a CV and a statement of suitability (maximum 500 words) to provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential/desirable skills set out above.

Please note: The system will not restrict your wordcount, however only the first 500 words will be considered

Applications will be sifted based on the essential/desirable skills. If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview

STAGE 2 – INTERVIEW
All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will be invited to interview. We are part of the Disability Confident Scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Interviews will include a number of behaviour-based questions, focused on the behaviours set out above.

Civil Service Behaviours

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  Making effective decisions
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  Working together
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  Changing and improving
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  Delivery at pace

Option 3 – External

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. The law requires that selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles.

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact UKHSA Public Accountability Unit via email: [email protected]If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission: Visit the Civil Service Commission website here.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).