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Job Category : Interims
Location : Guildhall 2, Royal Borough of Kingston
Hours Per Week : 15.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:30
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £239.35

The London Boroughs of Kingston and Sutton (shared environment service) have a programme of flood alleviation schemes. We are currently working with two companies providing design services and the Councils’ termed construction contractor. The project manage would support by fulfilling the following activities:
Project manage delivery with the contractors:
Clarifying actions
Setting realistic deadlines
Making sure actions are delivered on time
Written internal project updates and programmes

• Finances
  Clarify prices for each task to be completed by the contractors and request appropriate invoices when the tasks are complete
  Set up purchase orders
  Forecast annual spend on each project
  Correspond with funding partners regarding when to draw done their funding
  Profile spend within year
  Support with data collection
  Admin support for stakeholder engagement, e.g. room booking, mailing.

Job Category : Senior Interims

Location : Kaleidoscope, Lewisham Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £384.29 per day

Lewisham EPS is looking for locum EPs to support with EHC assessments.

Assessments will take 2 days and are being paid at £500 p/d which makes a total of £1,000 per assessment.

Qualifications Needed – Must be a Qualified Educational Psychologst either a Masters or Doctorate and must be HCPC registered 

Skills – Experienced in assessing age group 0-25, Experience of writing Psychologist advice reports, good comms skills and excellent organisation and planning 

Lewisham is in a vibrant area of South East London which is easily accessible by road (A2, south Circular) and public transport.  We have four train stations (Ladywell, Catford, Catford Bridge, and Crofton Park) which are within a 10-12 minute walk from our offices based in Catford.  These will give you direct connections to London Bridge, Waterloo East, and Charing Cross.  The overground tube line also cuts through the borough of Lewisham making access to our schools easy.  Bus routes serve all parts of the borough, and we have secure cycle parking and bespoke cycle paths.  If you are travelling from further afield we can provide you with subsidised parking in a secure local authority carpark for £3 per day.

Anti-racist practice, equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our assessments for children with special educational needs.  At a time when demand is at a national high, Lewisham EPS is committed to give every one of our complex SEN children the best experience possible when coming into contact with one of our EPs and we want all psychological advice to have impact on the learning experiences of our children.

The majority of our schools are still maintained and we have strong and positive working relationships with them all.  A mjor benefit of working in Lewisham is that our EP service is based alongside our health colleagues at the community development centre.  This means we have easy access to speaking with paediatricians, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, health visitors and school nurses.  Also we a closely linked with all integrated services for SEND and share a building with our SEN and social care teams.

We provide good quality assurance of reports and will give you feedback that supports your continued work with us.  Our talented senior leadership team, specialist EPs, maingrade and TEPs, are here to provide a forum of peer support for any EP assessing our children.  We are  looking for locum EPs to work with us between 2-5 days per week.  Come and join us!

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified

Location : Laurence House – Third Floor , Lewisham Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £21.80

An opportunity has arise for Case Management Social worker in the Integrated neighbourhood Team 4.

Maternity cover.

As a Case management Social worker you will be expected to work in a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation and advocacy for options and services to meet an individual’s holistic needs through communication and available resources to promote quality cost-effective outcomes. In addition we need to safeguard the our vulnerable residents.

Job Category : Admin / Clerical

Location : Laurence House, Lewisham Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £18.28

MASH CONTACT OFFICER 

Hybrid working – Rota system in place. 

Office is at Laurence House. 3 min walk from Catford Bridge Station. Pre booked Parking available. 

Summary of Responsibilities and Personal Duties:

•          To support the MASH by attending team meetings, MASH meetings and taking minutes as required.

•          To screen all referrals to confirm whether parental consent has been obtained and, if not, notify the referrer that the referral will not be accepted without consent or consult with the duty Advanced Practitioner (AP) or Team Manager (TM) for confirmation of whether a contact should be created.

•          To create accurate records for children and their families ensuring basic details including names, addresses, contact number, gender, ethnicity, religion, source of referral, parental consent to referral, are recorded.

•          To be able to identify calls of a child protection/child in need nature and re-direct those calls to the duty social worker. This may involve alerting the Duty AP or Team Manager promptly when referrals requiring an urgent response are received.

•          To maintain the duty phones and efficiently triage or signpost callers to the correct individuals, Team or Service.

•          To provide a professional, sensitive and helpful response to young people, family members, professionals and partner agencies over the telephone.

•          To answer queries, assessing the urgency of each query, giving detailed information, re-directing service users and professionals as appropriate and referring more complex and urgent issues to the Advanced Practitioner or Duty Manager.

•          To support the MASH Team and partners in the provision of a high quality response to service users and professionals as the first point of contact.

•          To identify when referrals and notifications into the MASH may not be appropriate and liaise with the duty AP (consistency) or Team Manager.

•          To demonstrate clear knowledge and understanding of Corporate and Customer Care issues when practicing good customer relations.

•          To have knowledge of the role of social workers and an understanding of why children and families are assessed or request assistance from the department.

•          To consider the wider personal, family and environmental context of the presenting problem and in consultation with social workers, determine the appropriate action, for example, referral to a duty social worker or to another service provider. Provide information to families/carers and professionals about relevant resources in the community.

•          To reply to requests for information according to agreed timescales and  to a high standard (referring more complex queries to the AP or TM). This includes reviewing paper files, IT databases and providing detailed chronologies. These chronologies will be used as part of court reports, home office decisions, and other local authorities completing child protection investigations, Ofsted and assessments from other partner agencies.

•          To maintain accurate and relevant computerised records, and undertake administrative duties including demographic enquiries, correspondence and maintenance of office systems.

•          To support the organisation of meetings as required by the MASH including room booking where required.

•          To book interpretation and translation services as requested (including liaising with provider).

•          To develop and maintain strong relationships with partner agencies, such as Health, Education, Police, Housing and others, to ensure an effective resource for the provision of information for the Department and service users.

•          To work as part of a multi-agency team and promote an integrated approach to the provision of information and signposting to the correct services.

•          To photocopy, scan, collate, print and distribute documents or materials as required. This includes outcome letters to referrers and parents.

•          To provide basic and more complex project management support as requested.

•          To ensure that highly sensitive and confidential information is dealt with appropriately and the services are delivered in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 2018.

•          To work flexibly to provide cover for colleagues as required.

Job Category : Manual Labour / General Industrial

Location : Colley Lane Depot, Somerset Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start 

Start Time : 07:30

End Time : 16:00

Salary: £10.98

To undertake all grounds/horticultural operations to a high standard. Duties include but are not limited to highways, highway verges, cemeteries, public spaces, landscaped areas, including grass/hedge maintenance, weeding, clearing leaves, clearing shrub beds, pruning, planting shrubs, summer bedding and seeding, removal of graffiti and fly posting

Corporate Responsibilities 

Understand, uphold, and promote the aims of the council’s equality, diversity, and inclusion policies; health, safety and wellbeing of self and others; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.

Operational Duties     

To undertake all grounds/horticultural operations to a high standard. Duties include but are not limited to highways, highway verges, cemeteries, public spaces, landscaped areas, including grass/hedge maintenance, weeding, clearing leaves, clearing shrub beds, pruning, planting shrubs, summer bedding and seeding, removal of graffiti and fly posting. 

Conduct winter water course management, consisting of water course clearance as part of flood prevention. Use of pedestrian and mechanical sweepers to remove litter, leaves, glass, dumped rubbish.  Using chemical weed control, where appropriate and with suitable training and supervision.

Provide grounds/horticultural/cleaning operations as part of Housing contracts, working to strict SLAs. 

Responsible for flood management, sand bagging as part of emergency protocol.  Any other reasonable duties of a similar nature requested by supervisors or managers.

Qualification

Essential 

•          Good standard of education 

•          Level 2 Certificate of Competency in the safe use of ride-on lawnmowers

•          Full UK Driving licence. 

Desirable

•          NVQ level 2 in Horticulture. 

•          Routine Playground Inspection qualification. 

•          Chapter 8 NRSWA 002 Signing, Lighting, and guarding & Excavation of the Highway.

•          Excavator 360 mini digger qualification.

•          PA1 and PA6 Pesticide Training. 

•          Hiab training. 

Knowledge 

•          Competent knowledge to Comply with COSHH regulations and Health and Safety at work Act.

Skills 

Essential

•          Outdoors manual working and demonstrates the ability to use hand-operated equipment appropriate for the role. 

•          Takes care to evaluate environmental issues. 

•          Must have an understanding and knowledge base of Outlook, Word and Teams and possess the ability to learn new systems.

•          The post holder will be expected to conduct activities that require manual dexterity and physical co-ordination for the role. Such as XXXX

•          The post holder will be expected to manoeuvre heavy objects such as bagged materials and resources. 

•          Adapts work style to suit changing circumstances, such as weather conditions and volume of pedestrians.

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified

Location : County Hall North, West Sussex County Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £30.55

Location : County Hall North, Horsham 

Drivers License required 

Duty Weeks : must be onsite one week in every four.  Candidates are also expected to be in the office at least twice a week, whilst visiting families face to face.  

Interviews – are being held face to face in most cases for Childrens Services roles at West Sussex County Council now.   

Payrate : £38 an hour.  We are bound by the MoC, which means pay rates are capped. Whist we are able to pay up to £42, this rate is for those deemed to be at ASW level. Please ensure your candidates are aware that the pay rate they request may not be the rate they are offered; managers are assessing skills and competency at interview. If the candidate is being offered less than requested, we will make the reasoning clear whilst providing feedback

The Horsham office offers a large canteen area,  parking facilities, very close to the town centre with good shops and cafes and a very large park and leisure centre on its doorstep.  

Candidates can start as soon as pre employment checks have passed.  

You will act as a professional who practices effectively with high quality judgement, in situations of complexity, risk, uncertainty and challenge in line with the Professional Capabilities Framework. Manage caseloads with confidence and independence and are recognised as a source of reliable knowledge and advice and use your initiative to broaden your expertise. You help to support case conferences and produce quality assessments, taking shared responsibility and be accountable for your professional development. You will support equality and diversity and respect anyone working for or in contact with WSCC. 

The candidate needs: – To be an experienced worker with at least 2/3 years safeguarding experience. – Recent Front line – child protection work – Good assessment skills that are able to identify risk – Direct work with children to be able to identify their needs – Good multi agency working experience 

OFSTED UPDATE: In May 2023 Ofsted Inspectors praised West Sussex County Council’s Children’s Services for its ‘relentless approach to improving practice,’ giving the service an overall rating of ‘requires improvement’, with ‘good’ judgements for children in care and leadership and management. The judgements on children needing help and protection and children leaving care are they ‘require improvement to be good’. This rating is up from the last full inspection of Children’s Services back in 2019, when all areas were rated as inadequate.

Inspectors recognised the ‘strong, determined and cohesive leadership team’ who have made significant improvements since 2019 and their commitment and focus to make further improvements.

Agency staff are treated as part of the service and encouraged to attend transformational and other leadership events

Job Category : Admin / Clerical

Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 08:45

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £17.09

Main Purpose

To discharge the Authority’s responsibilities under ASCOF and other relevant legislation with respect to clients with disabilities, vulnerabilities and care needs.

To ensure the council’s eligibility criteria, policies and procedure are followed in relation to service users.

To help create packages of support to prevent unnecessary reception of children and young people into care and to assist adult clients to remain in their own home where possible and/or to move to suitable and appropriate residential care.

To match service user needs to potential placements.

To monitor the performance of current providers of placements and support services.

Job Description & Person Specification

5. To negotiate the cost of all placements and support packages to ensure that the Authority

receives the best value service and the most appropriate care and support for our clients,

taking into account all cost implications for recommended placements.

6. To commission a range of assessments (medical, parenting, risk, fostering and

psychological) as required and identified by the care plan at the request and approval of

the Head of Service.

7. To undertake inspection and evaluation visits to providers for both individual clients and for general database records. To produce a report of findings, including recommendations as

to the suitability of the provider to meet needs of potential placements. To regularly review

and monitor the provision ensuring that CQC reports are received and reviewed, Statements of Purpose and references are regularly updated.

8. To undertake investigation of complaints and concerns as raised by the team, social

workers or managers regarding external providers. To produce reports of findings; to meet

with providers and agree action plans to remedy any identified faults or failings and to

monitor and maintain progress updates against the action plan.

10. To ensure communication with Adult services is maintained for young people identified as likely to need Adult services, in particular as they move towards the age of majority.

11. To liaise with social workers and other professionals and agencies regarding assessments of care needs and potential service providers in order to assist the development of appropriate and coherent care planning. This may include the negotiation with other agency representatives around contributions to service funding.

13. To participate in a duty rota system dealing with all emergency placements received whilst the duty officer, including following through overnight & weekend placements by updating Liquid Logic

SKILLS & ABILITIES

•Ability to work within a framework of legislation, guidance, divisional policies and

procedures and to be accountable to senior officers.

•The ability to understand and interpret to everyday activities the Council’s Financial

Regulations

•Skill in communicating orally and in writing in clear and correct English, including an ability

to maintain concise and legible case records and the ability to produce reports as required.

•Ability to manage working time effectively to meet both professional priorities and

administrative requirements.

•Good numeracy and literacy skills

•A high level of computer and IT skills and experience, record keeping and telephone

communications, including the use of office software packages, eg databases, email and

internet for research.

•Demonstrate appropriate understanding, knowledge and skills in valuing diversity

KNOWLEDGE

•Knowledge of the range of services that is available to families and adults

and of the organisational framework within which they operate.

•An understanding of the importance of confidentiality in the context of a social and

healthcare environment.

•A sound understanding of the Care Standards and relevant legislation and the

CQC registration and approval process.

•A sound knowledge of the nature of social and healthcare service delivery in the

community

•A knowledge of local services and community resources

•A basic understanding of contract rules and obligations

•An awareness and commitment to the Council’s Equal Opportunities Policy and its

application to service delivery and the role.

•An understanding of the need for timely and accurate record keeping in order to

provide management information and performance indicators

EXPERIENCE

•Experience of working as part of a team.

•Experience of using computer packages and undertaking administrative tasks.

Experience of negotiating agreements or contracts

•Experience of working in a local government or third sector environment, ideally within

a social care or community care setting

•Previous experience of a customer focussed environment

•Evidence of continued professional and personal development

QUALIFICATIONS

•Educated to a high level – first degree or equivalent.

Job Category: Housing
Location: The Deane House, Somerset Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £14.71

Role purpose:
• Provide advice, information and assistance to applicants who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
• Help applicants to explore their housing options and find suitable accommodation that meets their needs.
• To work with a range of partners and agencies to prevent and reduce homelessness in the community.

Qualification:
Education qualification to at least A level standard or acquired knowledge to NVQ level 4 and ongoing commitment to continuous professional development and where required will acquire specialist accreditation and skills.

Knowledge:
Desirable:
• Homelessness legislation. (Housing Act 1996, Homelessness Act 2002, Suitability Order 2012, Homelessness Reduction Act 2017)
• Landlord and tenant law.
• Options available to somebody that is homeless or at risk of homelessness.
• Data Protection.
• Equality and diversity issues and an understanding of the relevance to a housing advice service.

Skills:
Essential:
• Effective written and verbal communication.
• Ability to build and maintain good working relationships.
• Ability to deal inventively and sensitively with a wide range and spectrum of people in greatly varying circumstances.
• Ability to establish and manage realistic applicant expectations.
• Resourceful, solution focused, persuasive and skilled in overcoming barriers.
• Ability to prioritise workload, manage time effectively and meet deadlines.
• Ability to manage a diverse caseload effectively where detailed and complex investigations are required, working with precision and attention to detail.
• Ability to maintain accurate detailed and timely case notes and other evidence-based records.
• Ability to work as part of a team, be flexible, use initiative and work with limited supervision.
• Good organisational and administrative skills.

Desirable:
• Negotiating skills

Experience:
Desirable:
• Experience of working within a Housing Options team.
• Experience of working in a housing association, local authority housing department or similar organisation.
• Experience of dealing with the public and in particular vulnerable applicants.
• Experience of effective partnership working which has led to positive solutions.

Working Arrangements:
• Occasional evening and weekend working.
• Occasional on-call duty, working outside of normal working hours, to respond to emergencies.
• An enhanced DBS check is a requirement of the role.
• Current driving licence and access to own vehicle, to visit clients in their own homes.

Job Category: Social Care – Qualified
Location: Powys County Council, Powys County Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:30
Salary: £32.81

Main Purpose of Post: 
• The Principal Social Worker will possess advanced social work knowledge, skills and leadership related to improving outcomes for children in need of care and support and protection and young people leaving care.
• Will consistently demonstrate a high level of competence and confidence in the full range of social work tasks with children and their families, particularly in relation to child protection, court proceedings, work with looked after children, and partnership working.
• Expected to model core social work values, best practice and a strong commitment to continuous improvement.
• Will provide line management to a range of workers within the service.
• Will provide mentoring and coaching to other members of the team and provide accredited practice teaching to student social workers including complex and challenging cases.  This may include co-working.
• Expected to achieve high practice standards and meet performance targets within their workload and those of staff they supervise.
• To contribute to the learning culture of the team by sharing knowledge and skills with colleagues.
• To deputise for their Manager and represent the team in working groups set up to raise the quality of practice and improve the effectiveness of the service.
• Assist their Manager in providing support and supervision to specific other members of the team and are accountable for their work.

Experience:
• Significant proven post qualifying experience including in-depth experience in the field of child and family social work, court work at a senior level.
• Experience of coaching/mentoring including practice teaching.
• Experience of undertaking the management role within a child and family social work setting.
• Experience of supervision and line management of staff.
• Experience of Multi Agency work at a senior level.
• Experience of understanding and managing set budgets for example Section 17 and the budget implications and resources linked to practice.

Knowledge:
• Knowledge of current legislation, national guidance and best practice relevant to the post.
• Knowledge of social care needs of children and families.
• Knowledge of current research and the ability to demonstrate in practice.

Registrations, Qualifications & Training:
Essential:
• Appropriate social work qualification (i.e. Degree in Social Work, DipSW or equivalent).
• Registration as Social Worker Social Care Wales
• PQ1 and Practice Assessors Award or equivalent under the Framework for Continuing Professional Education and Learning.
• Commitment to undertaking any qualification relevant to this post within CPEL Framework e.g. AMHP.

Desirable:
• Management qualification.

Safeguarding Requirements:
• Requirement to undertake an Enhanced DBS check.

Other Requirements:
• Current driving licence and the ability to travel extensively around the county.

Job Category: Social Care – Unqualified
Location: Newtown, Powys County Council
Hours Per Week: 35.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 07:00
End Time:10:00
Salary: £29.64

Pay rate is negotiable – 35 hours per week. Shifts run from 07:00-14:30 and 14:30-10:00

Main Purpose of Post:
To be responsible for implementing Personal Plans to meet individual outcomes in regaining skills, independence, and ongoing support requirements.
To assist or enable service users to remain living within the community, enhancing the quality of their lives, supporting and maintaining them safely in their own environment.
Complying with requirements of a service Registered with Care Inspectorate for Wales under Registration and Inspection of Social Care Act 2016.

Experience:
Desirable:
• Experience of working in a care related service or similar setting
• Experience of working as part of a group/ team and contributing to its’ development
• Experience of working with older and disabled people

Knowledge:
Essential:
• Understanding of the needs of older and disabled people

Desirable:
• Some knowledge/Awareness of Code of Professional Practice for Social Care Code of Professional Practice for Social Care 

Qualifications & Training:
Essential:
• A good standard of education

Desirable:
• Completed a minimum of QCF Level 3 in care or other relevant Level 3 social care qualification or commitment to complete within 18 months.

Personal Qualities:
Essential:
• Self-motivated, proactive, resourceful, and able to recognise when to seek support.
• Commitment to equal opportunities and non–discriminatory practice.
• Empathy and ability to listen.
• Honest and trustworthy.
• Punctual and reliable.

Desirable:
• An ability to create and sustain good working relationships.

Safeguarding Requirements:
• This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check
• Understanding of safeguarding issues and duty to report any concerns in a timely manner

Other Requirements:
• Current driving licence
• Ability to travel around the county

Job Category: Manual Labour / General Industrial
Location: Colley Lane Depot, Somerset Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 07:30
End Time: 16:00
Salary: £10.98

Role Purpose:
To carry out a variety of operational roles in a flexible manner, to promote a clean and attractive environment for residents and visitors within the district.

To undertake all grounds/horticultural operations to a high standard. Duties include but are not limited to highways, highway verges, cemeteries, public spaces, landscaped areas, including grass/hedge maintenance, weeding, clearing leaves, clearing shrub beds, pruning, planting shrubs, summer bedding and seeding, removal of graffiti and fly posting.

Qualifications:
Essential:
• Good standard of education
• Level 2 Certificate of Competency in the safe use of ride-on lawnmowers
• Full UK Driving licence.
Desirable:
• NVQ level 2 in Horticulture.
• Routine Playground Inspection qualification.
• Chapter 8 NRSWA 002 Signing, Lighting, and guarding & Excavation of the Highway.
• Excavator 360 mini digger qualification.
• PA1 and PA6 Pesticide Training.
• Hiab training.

Knowledge:
• Competent knowledge to Comply with COSHH regulations and Health and Safety at work Act.

Skills:
Essential:
• Outdoors manual working and demonstrates the ability to use hand-operated equipment appropriate for the role.
• Takes care to evaluate environmental issues.
• Must have an understanding and knowledge base of Outlook, Word and Teams and possess the ability to learn new systems.
• The post holder will be expected to conduct activities that require manual dexterity and physical co-ordination for the role. Such as XXXX
• The post holder will be expected to manoeuvre heavy objects such as bagged materials and resources.
• Adapts work style to suit changing circumstances, such as weather conditions and volume of pedestrians.

Job Category: Social and Healthcare Unqualified
Location: Camberley Court, Nottingham Community Housing Association
Start Date: Immediate Start
Salary: £14.68

What does a Customer Wellbeing Call Agent do?

As a Customer Wellbeing Call Agent, you will help support vulnerable people to live independently, by providing a range of different services. You will monitor assistive technology solutions, which includes critical equipment such as falls detectors or smoke and door sensors. You will also need to provide a range of wellbeing checks; either face to face(full driving licence required) or over the phone including medication prompts, emotional support and reassurance, contacting next of kin and emergency services. In addition, you be required to help arrange maintenance repairs, provide a mental health helpline, monitor CCTV, support colleagues with safeguarding concerns. You will also be part of delivering a mental health helpline which takes around 6,000 calls per month.

“You have to think on your feet, and every day is different!” – quote from a current colleague

Sound like you?

We need a motivated, resilient individual who is patient and shows empathy to our callers. Someone who can work in a fast pace service, but can remain calm, professional and react effectively and efficiently to our most vulnerable customers.

You will have experience of working in a customer facing team environment and experience of working in a telephone support service. You will also be educated to NVQ level 2 or equivalent in Telecare, Care, Housing, Customer Service, Business Administration, ITC), or be able to demonstrate relevant work experience.

Above all, you will be passionate about supporting vulnerable people and have NCHA’s core values at heart.

Working Hours:
This is a 24hr service so you will be required to work on rota basis on the below shift pattern:
• Early: 6am to 2pm
• Late: 2pm to 10 pm
• Night: 10pm to 6am

Now more than ever, we need people like you!

Job Purpose:
• Working in NCHA’s 24/7 Customer Experience Centre, you will deliver internal and external services that truly impact social value.
• Primarily delivering contact centre services to respond to alarms generated from Assistive Technology, you will also be the voice of our wellbeing helplines, which deliver support services to service users who are experiencing moments of crisis or mental health issues.

Knowledge:
• Working knowledge of and demonstrable experience of working on Wellbeing Helplines.
• Demonstrable awareness of Mental Health issues.

Skills and Experience:
• MHFA (Mental Health First Aid) qualified or willingness to achieve the qualification.
• Demonstrable experience of identifying opportunities to improve service user safeguarding and reporting outcomes for service delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of working in a fast-paced contact centre environment with demanding priorities.
• Demonstrable numeracy and literacy skills.
• Demonstrable excellent communication, organisational and administrative skills.
• Demonstrable IT skills and knowledge.
• Effective problem solving skills.
• Demonstrable experience of using strong conflict resolution skills to de-escalate issues.

Personal Qualities, Values and Behaviour:
• Understanding of the needs of people from diverse social/cultural/racial backgrounds.
• Commitment and ability to model NCHA’s CLEAR values and purpose.
• Is self-aware and willing to develop.
• Willing to challenge the status quo to do the right thing for the customer with resolution and adding value in everything that you do.

Other Requirements:
• Hold a valid driving licence and be able to drive company vehicles.

Job Category: Housing
Location: Laurence House – Fourth Floor, Lewisham Council
Hours Per Week: 35.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £33.00

Property acquisitions person – they should be able to negotiate good prices, manage diaries for the valuers and contractors and progress sales from sourcing and offer, right through to completion and turnkey. It will require travelling beyond the Lewisham borough for the completions and dealing with numerous staff departments and contractors. The current position is held by someone who is excellent at the role, but is currently long-term sick. Therefore, the role is 3 months to start with. Depending on when the current postholder recovers and how well the new person does, may result in a contract extension, because we have over 300 homes to purchase over 3 years, and due to the success of my first programme, more Council departments are asking us to source properties for them.

The current pay is £42 per hour/£294 per day, but there is some scope to pay more for the right person who can start immediately. It’s hybrid working at 2 days in the office (Weds and Thurs) which is not negotiable, but the rest is working from home. They will be provided with a laptop and a mobile phone.

Knowledge:
• RICS registered Red book valuer with excellent knowledge of best practice in aspects of property valuation and good knowledge of project and programme delivery and budget management with experience in a similarly complex, challenging environment.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of all aspects of the conveyancing process, valuation negotiations and timekeeping and related regulatory and professional compliance.
• Good knowledge of fire regulations and other building control requirements and some knowledge of wheelchair and adapted housing.
• Good knowledge of the political interface in a local authority and the role and needs of elected members.
• Good knowledge of the issues facing the management of a public sector organisation.
• Excellent knowledge of successful financial management associated with the conveyancing process, including what has to be paid and at what points in the process in order to complete in optimum time and good financial knowledge of financial viability.
• Excellent knowledge of procurement practice
• Excellent knowledge of sustainability and retrofitting
• Excellent knowledge of Health & Safety legislation
• Excellent knowledge of Property Systems and Processes

Experience:
• Substantial experience of property valuation work within a similarly complex and challenging environment with experience of successfully managing and delivering cross-cutting or integrated programmes of work within a local authority or Housing Association environment.
• Substantial experience of project and programme viability.
• Substantial experience of successful budgetary management and control, both at departmental level and contributing to overall corporate effectiveness.
• Substantial experience of having delivered effective performance measures and a performance culture that achieves objectives and drives up performance standards.
• Substantial experience of developing and managing strategic partnerships that are focused on outcomes rather than process and that have made a demonstrable difference to the quality of programme delivery.

General Education:
• Surveying and / or Planning and Development qualification
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors status including Red Book Valuation accreditation.
• High level of literacy and numeracy.
• Evidence of professional development (CPD).

Job Category: Planning
Location: Laurence House – Fourth Floor, Lewisham Council
Hours Per Week: 35.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £23.56

We are seeking up to two suitably qualified planners for entry level opportunity with London Borough of Lewisham Development Management Team with opportunity to progress for the right candidates.
Hybrid working role: must be able to work from Catford office (Laurence House) every Tuesday and Wednesday. Can work remotely other days but can also work in the office if the candidate prefers.
Must be located to be able to conduct site visits with 24hrs notice so London or accessible Home Counties preferable. We will consider candidates from farther afield subject to their committing to moving prior to taking on the role. We are also open to overseas candidates on the same basis.

Main Purpose of the job:
• To manage and process all planning applications and other related development control work.
• To ensure that development is in accordance with current planning legislation, the Council’s planning policies and sound planning principles.
• To provide planning information and advice, including Pre-application advice.
• To assist with technical validation, registering and consultation on planning applications as required.

Knowledge:
Fully trained town planner conversant with:
• Town and Country Planning Acts
• Development Management procedures, Central Government Policy Guidance and associated regulations.
• The London Plan and Local Development Plans
• Broader Council-wide Corporate and Planning issues
 
Aptitude:
• The ability to give limited advice to Planning Support Officers and more junior members of the team as appropriate.
• Ability to liaise closely with Planning Support Officers and other staff.
• Ability to coach and motivate junior members of staff.
• Ability to accurately assess a range of proposals and produce accurate reports with minimal checking/alteration.
• Ability to produce high quality work, whilst maintaining performance targets.
• Ability to provide advice and to interpret and apply policy.

Skills:
• Good writing skills to enable the preparation of clear and accurate reports and to deal efficiently with general correspondence.
• Clear verbal communications, including explaining technical planning information and giving advice to non-technical people.
• Carry out straight forward negotiations with the public, developers, builders, architects etc.
• Prioritising own work to respond successfully to frequent changes in work whilst maintaining performance.
 
Experience:
• Experience of Development Management work, dealing with all householder applications, Lawful Development Certificates and simple changes of use with limited supervision.
• Experience of dealing with complex Minor planning applications with support from senior planning officers.
• Experience of representing the Council at written representation appeals.

General Education:
• Town planning degree or recognised degree (e.g. Geography, Economics, Environmental Studies etc.) leading to membership of the RTPI.

Personal Qualities:
• Able to work as part of a team.
• A high level of motivation for town planning and environmental issues and as appropriate, to be prepared to undertake formal training with a view to becoming a qualified, experienced town planner.

Job Category: Engineering & Surveying
Location: Guildhall 2, Royal Borough of Kingston
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £17.82

Street works permitting officer required to process street works permits in the borough of Kingston. Working predominantly from home with one day a week in the office.
Experienced in processing permits in Mayrise (desirable) and Street Manager (essential). Good understanding of permit conditions.

About You:
You will be an experienced professional in network management or similar highways function. You will have experience of relevant IT systems and be skilled at negotiating with outside stakeholders.

About the Role:
The role is situated in the Highway Operations Team within the Highways & Transport Service. As part of a small team it provides a network coordination function across the two councils’ areas. The role is a critical part of the Highway Authorities’ discharging of their Network Management Duty – managing permitting and other licensing matters, negotiating with works promoters to ensure disruption to the network is minimised.

Competencies, Skills and Knowledge:
Essential:
• Relevant technical qualification, e.g., HND/HNC/Degree or significant equivalent experience.
• Works collaboratively with others, leading by example in accordance with STAR Values and Behaviors
• Supports a learning environment where innovation and creativity are celebrated and risks are managed with a ‘Can do’ attitude
• Is competent with IT and Digital processes, seeking to drive digitisation
• Has political awareness and has the ability to work collaboratively with elected members
• Is accountable and responsible for resources to undertake their role
• Ability to analyse data and intelligence to drive improvements and collaborate with partners
• Communicates clearly and effectively with colleagues and understands corporate vision, plan and activities which may impact them
• Highly organised , juggling priorities, often under pressure.
• Committed to Equalities Diversity and Inclusion in everything we do
• Knowledge, including the practical application, of legislation relating to highway matters including the Highway Act 1980, TMA 2004, New Roads & Street Works Act 1991 and the Environmental Protection Act 1990
• Knowledge of inspection procedures/requirements for maintaining the highway
• Knowledge of highway engineering and reinstatement materials and methods used by Contractors and Statutory Undertakers
• Knowledge of Health & Safety as it relates to working on the public highway
• Able to communicate both orally and in writing with staff, members of the public, contractors including conclusion of sensitive negotiations around streetworks matters

Desirable:
• New Roads & Street Works qualification or accreditation
• Experience of Street Manager, permitting software

Job Category: Legal (Specialist)
Location: London Borough of Hillingdon, London Borough of Hillingdon
Hours Per Week: 36.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £33.93

The role is for an information governance lawyer within the council’s Information Governance Team. The successful candidate will be reporting to the Deputy Principal Lawyer for the Freedom of Information Data Governance legal team by providing proactive, specialist, in-depth, legal advice to the client departments as well as implementing initiatives and processes in order to set high quality standards in managing legal risk.

The successful candidates day to day responsibilities will include:
• To have conduct of cases in all Courts, Tribunals etc., to appear personally on the Council’s behalf as appropriate in cases in civil courts and before Tribunals and Inquiries.
• To maintain a cross-functional perspective when advising the Council, by understanding the inter-play between different departments where there maybe competing interests and risks.
• To review and advise on all legal aspects of cabinet reports and Council publications.
• To advise on, respond to and review Subject Access Requests and Freedom of Information Requests
• To be a point of contact with the Information Commissioner and to assist the achievement of statutory targets on FOI / SAR etc.
• To take responsibility for advising senior officers and other officers and Members of the Council on relevant matters.
• To deal with those legal matters delegated by the Head of Legal Services.
• Provide legal advice and support to other groups in the Council as directed by the Head of Legal Services.
• To personally provide accurate and timely legal advice to clients in a cost effective and efficient manner.
• To demonstrate understanding of the Council’s Customer Care Standards and ensure that these standards are met in order to deliver the Council vision of ‘putting our residents first’.
• To brief the Head of Legal Services on all significant matters as necessary.

The successful candidate will be a qualified solicitor, barrister or legal executive with experience in information governance.

Experience of working within a local authority or at least reviewing and understanding local authority files particularly sensitive files such as social work files is preferable.

The following knowledge and skills are essential:
• Knowledge of local government law, and recent legislative developments.
• Knowledge of information governance law and an ability to acquire a specialist knowledge of at least one of these areas.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to proactively provide legal advice and support to customers including Councillors and senior officers
• Ability to provide legal advice related to the Council’s policy objectives
• Problem solving skills

The local authority will consider requests for the role to be fully remote.

Job Category: Social Care – Qualified
Location: Oakmeadow Community Support Centre, Widnes, WA8 6TJ, Halton Borough Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £20.67

Job Purpose:
• In conjunction with the Principal Manager you will organise, lead, motivate and supervise a number of staff across the Care Home.
• You will work closely with health colleagues and key stakeholders to develop Millbrow as a teaching care home and centre of excellence. 
• You will perform the duties of the Registered Manager for Care Home, to ensure services are operated and compliant with the Care Quality Commission minimum standards.
• To assist in the coordination, performance and promotion of prevention and health and social care services in Halton and to contribute to the directorate and corporate development agenda.
• To assist the Principal Manager in the organisation & development of the delivery of services to vulnerable adults, within the intermediate care services by supervising, supporting and advising the teams.
• To contribute to the management, delivery and operation of a range of measurably high-quality, cost-effective services to meet individual needs.
• To perform the duties of the Registered Manager for the Reablement Service and Residential services, as required by the CQC’s minimum standards for registered services.

Education & Qualifications:
Essential:
DipSW / CQSW / DipCOT/ RGN / RMN / or equivalent qualification as appropriate, and progressed.

Desirable:
• Post Qualifying professional qualification
• Registered Managers (Adults) NVQ level 4 or evidence of the equivalent QCF Credit Value or equivalent qualification

Experience:
Essential:
• Proven experience of working in a supervisory role within a relevant area of health / social services
• Post qualification experience within
• Staff and / or student supervision
• Organising and writing rotas
• Experience / awareness of Adult Protection procedures.
• Care management experience with health / social services

Desirable:
• Performance management and monitoring. 
• Budget monitoring.
• Using Information Technology
• Background in home management

Skills / Knowledge:
Essential:
• The supervisory process and performance management 
• Clear and effective communication
• Knowledge of the Care Act 2014, Mental Capacity Act 2005, Deprivation of Liberty ( DoLS),
• Knowledge of a person-centred and asset-based approach to care
• Assessment of risk and the development of effective risk management plans
• Experience of change management
• Working as a team member
• Detailed understanding of the relevant professional / practice issues relating to the service area
• Detailed understanding of wider health & social care provision

Desirable:
• Understanding of key issues in strategic planning
• Understanding of Human Resource issues including the management of poor performance

Aptitude:
Essential:
• A proven team player who has experience of building a team and has the ability to lead and motivate staff 
• Flexible approaches
• Ability to work co-operatively with colleagues from all disciplines
• Able to demonstrate anti-oppressive practice and a willingness to challenge discrimination
• Able to work on own initiative
• Willingness to undertake continuous development

Desirable:
• Recognition of the value of the multi-disciplinary team approach and the importance of each role in the team

Other Requirements:
Essential:
• Ability to travel throughout the borough and wider. 
• Willingness to work outside normal hours if required, including regular weekend cover
• Awareness of Equal Opportunities issues

Desirable:
• Understanding and clarity regarding roles and responsibilities within nursing home environment

Job Category: Construction Trades & Operatives
Location: City Hall, Cardiff Council
Hours Per Week: 40.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £10.90

Casual staff for events

Job Category : Procurement

Location : Lincoln County Offices (Newland), Lincolnshire County Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate start 

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £18.00

Integrated Commissioning Programme Officer

PURPOSE OF JOB:

To support a programme of joint commissioning in line with the Commissioning for Lincolnshire approach.

The post holder will provide support to the Programme Manager for Children’s Integrated Commissioning on ensuring delivery of all aspects of the commissioning cycle, including: shaping, planning, design and delivery of new commissioned services; the redesign of existing services, performance review frameworks and joint review processes and ensuring an integrated approach to performance management, quality standards and service delivery.

The work may cover all aspects of integrated children’s commissioning but for the most part the post holder will be leading or managing projects with whole service or county–wide impact or leading LCCs and/or Integrated Care Board’s (ICB) most complex projects. However the post holder will be flexible in order to work on whatever is the current priority.

Assist with the delivery of a consistent strategic commissioning approach across the Council and ICB in assisting, as appropriate, with:

• Embedding new ways of thinking and working

• Developing and maintaining strong, positive working relationships across service areas,

with providers and partners

To support the Programme Manager within the Children’s Integrated Commissioning team on a range of projects relating to integrated children’s health and care commissioning, providing day to day leadership as appropriate to deliver the agreed priorities within commissioning strategies.

To lead work primarily with senior managers to provide critical challenge, facilitation and support to help their areas improve and plan for that improvement.

To work with senior managers on the most complex projects to review current service delivery and work with them to develop effective commissioning solutions.

To analyse the most complex data and information on performance and utilise relevant approaches to help improve it including statistical analysis, benchmarking, target setting etc.

To build and maintain a good understanding of local and national priorities and needs.

To support relevant engagement and consultation activities forming part of any project including ensuring compliance with legal obligations and inclusion of the voice of the child.

To lead on working with senior managers, both internally and with external organisations (primarily NHS organisations), to develop all aspects of the post holders own or someone else’s projects to include benefits strategy on the most complex projects, providing expert advice and guidance as appropriate for own area of expertise.

To develop, maintain and influence effective and regular relationships with a wide range of stakeholders both internal across the council (most of whom will be senior managers) and external, also at a high level including health commissioners, LSCP etc. This will involve working particularly closely with the ICB in Lincolnshire and to understand and influence ways of working across organisations in relation to the joint health and care commissioning agenda.

To help LCC and ICB managers make the changes they need to deliver the benefits they anticipate by managing the most complex projects and work streams and advising individual managers.

Professional & Specialist Knowledge

Relevant qualifications (such as an appropriate degree or professional qualification) or demonstrable experience in a relevant specialist area, and

Relevant and demonstrable experience across most of the diverse range of knowledge needed for the role.

Understanding of health and social care landscape, including responsibilities, drivers and priorities of organisations represented.

Proven experience in managing

complex improvement projects

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified

Location : Laurence House, Lewisham Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Hybrid Working 

Use of a Rota currently 

Good Access to transport links , Catford Bridge Station is 3 min walk. Pre booked Parking available. 

 In Lewisham Children’s Social Care, we know what good social work looks like and we are passionate about creating the right conditions and culture for good practice to thrive.

Families are respected and supported to stay together, whenever there is safety.

Families will tell us they understand why we are involved.

Children will tell us their social worker has made a difference to their lives.

Children who are in our care know we care, and we won’t give up on them.

Young people who have been in our care feel confident about their future.

We have taken a whole system approach to improving our services to children and young people in our borough using ‘Signs of Safety’ as our practice model.  Ofsted recognised the progress we have made noting that:

•          Staff talk positively about their manageable caseloads, regular supervision, team meetings and access to a range of training, including the social work model of practice.

•          Senior leaders demonstrate a clear focus on hearing the voices of children to develop and improve services. 

•          Leaders know the service well. They have a clear understanding of areas for development that are being appropriately addressed.

We are making progress but need passionate, creative and energetic social workers, managers and leaders to get us where we want to be. Could this be you?

Key Skills 

–           An ability to work in a fast -paced environment and prioritise. 

–           Daily allocation of MASH referrals, screening using the SOS Framework (discussions with the referrer, parents, and young person. Consideration for MASH Enquiries to inform Threshold. 

–           An ability to show good multi agency working. 

–           A good understanding of threshold

–           An ability to use Tools to inform decision making.

–           An ability to demonstrate knowledge and skills with complex and diverse range of needs. 

–           An ability to make decisions in a timely manner. 

–           Safety Planning

1.         To work as part of a multi agency team, ensuring integration and seamless delivery of services to service users and their carers.

2.         Ensure risk management and adult safeguarding is effectively embedded within practice and responded to appropriately.  Be aware of any potential children’s safeguarding concerns and liaise as appropriate with Children’s Social Care Services taking into account children’s safeguarding procedure.

3.         In personal professional practice (and that of supervised staff) promote an ethos of helping people help themselves or one another through initiatives to facilitate and support increased individual and community capacity.    This includes utilising own resources, promoting social inclusion and community networks, reciprocal support and sustainable caring roles, through taking a strength based approach to assessment.

4.         Maintain a strong focus on improved outcomes around independence and personalisation, including the promotion of enablement and linking the service user to community based support services that enhance personal wellbeing. 

5.         Promote the principles of self directed support and outcome based support planning, enabling service users and their carers to make choices about how their Personal Budget is managed and the services purchased to meet agreed outcomes.

Skills

Able to supervise the professional casework of a number of staff , to record supervision, management overview and offer feedback and advice

Able to chair meetings and case conferences

IT skills across a range of systems and tools e.g. social care client database, e-mail, internet based programmes, word processing, financial database.

Excellent writing skills in order to record casework and prepare complex reports

Has good communication skills and is able to relate well to service users, families and other professionals. 

Experience

Previous post qualification experience of working as a social worker, in particular work with adult service users.           

Experience of working with service users who have complex needs that require frequent interventions to support their changing needs.

Significant experience working in the area of adult safeguarding and managing significant risk

Experience working with service users who are “difficult to reach” who have been socially excluded.

Experience working with service users and their families where there is an extensive breadth/depth of need and economic deprivation.

Experience of chairing meetings and handling interpersonal conflict

Experience of working with service users and advocates where the service user does not have mental capacity.

General Education

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF QUALIFICATIONS ARE AN ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT ORIGINAL CERTIFICATES ONLY WILL BE ACCEPTED, THESE WILL BE VERIFIED AT START OF APPOINTMENT.

Qualified and Registered Social Worker