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Job Category : Human Resources - General
Client Location : Ballard House, West Hoe Road, Plymouth City Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £27.28
We are seeking a professional and experienced HR partner for up to 4 months while we recruit to a permanent vacancy. Candidates for this interim opportunity need significant HROD experience, including experience of developing and implementing people strategies and evidence of leading the people elements of key organisational change programmes.
Candidates must be MCIPD qualified, have sound knowledge of employment law, experience of service transformation and continuous improvement.
Hybrid working applies to this role.

Job Category : Children's Services

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

Hours Per Week :17.50

Start Date : Immediate start               

Start Time :09:00

End Time :12:30

Salary: £12.54

Knowledge and skills acquired from;

• an education to A Level or the equivalent;

• preferably at least 3 years' experience of work in a local authority or

school or equivalent setting.

Specifically, a basic knowledge of;

• education law and statutory codes of practice with respect to admissions

and related issues, practices and procedures;

• relevant statutory and County Council Plans;

Basic skills in the assembling of data and the use of spreadsheets to display it. Proficiency in IT equivalent to the European Computer Driving Licence.

Post holders should be comfortable working with a degree of ambiguity and uncertainty within casework.

Job Category :Admin & Clerical
Client Location : Homeworking Hybrid, Met Office
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £12.55
Job holder has been temporarily moved to provide maternity cover to the co-ordination manager. The agency worker is required to back fill her post which she will step back into once the person she is covering returns from maternity leave.

Job Category : Procurement - Senior

Client Location : Windsor House & Car Parks, Plymouth City Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start              

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £10.42

We are looking for an experienced Strategic Commissioning Manager for an initial period of 6 months, to lead our Children, Young People and Wellbeing team. The suitable candidate will have extensive experience in managing strategic change, leading projects and developing and supporting teams. 

The remit of the Children, Young People and Wellbeing team is broad, covering Children’s Services (including placement brokerage and strategic placement market development), Early Help, SEND, domestic abuse, all age carers and a range of wider wellbeing contracts. The team also oversee our Complex Lives Alliance contract, which includes substance misuse and housing options for those experiencing multiple disadvantage.

The successful candidate will work to the interim Head of Commissioning to lead on the delivery of the work plan for the team. Key projects over the next 6 months include:

•          Procurement and implementation of a new domestic abuse service for the city

•          Procurement of the young carers and substance misuse service

•          Action plan development and  implementation of a new placement sufficiency strategy

•          Recommissioning of a resettlement support service for Plymouth

•          Development of a commissioning and co-design approach to Ageing Well services

•          Development of a commissioning and co-design approach to Ageing Well services

The post holder will regularly attend meetings with senior leaders in Children’s Services and key partnership forums, as well as attending sub-regional and regional meetings and events. The ability to work closely with partners including NHS Devon ICB and education and VCSE organisations is essential.

Educated to GCSE standard or equivalent.

Experienced and competent in using PC  Applications, including Microsoft products.

Experience of providing  application support to staff on a regular basis.

Knowledge and experience of the  social care environment and work processes.

Knowledge and experience in using CareFirst.

Job Category :Social Care - Unqualified
Client Location : County Hall, Cardiff Council
Hours Per Week :37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time :17:00
Salary: £24.66

CareFirst is the case management system used by social services and communities staff to record their service user information. The system also provides key performance indicators. The CareFirst Information Assistant provides assistance and support to end users of the CareFirst system.

To provide a single point of contact for internal / external users of CareFirst to log, expedite and, where applicable, resolve their queries or problems.

What We Are Looking For From You We are looking for a dynamic, enthusiastic, confident person to join a small team in helping to provide a single point of contact for Children’s Services internal users of the current social care electronic case record system CareFirst and the move to Eclipse.

The successful person will be expected to set up new users and organisations on the system as well booking staff on to the appropriate training sessions. Duties will also include, logging, expediting and, where applicable, resolving queries or problems from users and various data cleansing of records. Similar experience of being involved in a Helpdesk/customer service role and technical ability with applications would be useful. Good excel skills are essential as is any experience with SharePoint, Microsoft Forms

This is a hybrid working post, although during the implementation of the new system Eclipse the candidate may need to attend County Hall on a number of occasions in any working week depending on the identified tasks.

Degree or equivalent qualification
• Post graduate qualification or evidence of continuous professional
development
• Extensive knowledge of EU Procurement Law, Contract Law, Best Value
and Transformation Agenda
• Relevant Management experience
• Demonstrable experience in delivering commissioning management
systems
• Experience of Public Sector settings such as Social Care, Health and
Education Experience of Strategy development systems, leading and
managing multi-disciplinary teams, financial management
• Experience of change management, within organisation and partner
organisations
• Knowledge of performance management, policy development and service
improvement including quality standards development of management
information systems
• Partnership working at a senior and strategic level

Job Category : Engineering & Surveying
Location :Ballard House, West Hoe Road
Hours Per Week :37.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £18.81
Plymouth City Council is recruiting a Building Survey to support the Facilities Management Team with the delivery of repairs and maintenance across a diverse range of properties within Plymouth City Council’s corporate property estate.

You’ll get to enjoy an amazing quality of life by the sea in the home of the UK’s first National Marine Park with the flexible ability to hybrid work with a mixture of home working and office working.

You will be delivering programmed and responsive maintenance works and condition surveys in support of the council’s maintenance and capital programme plans. This is a really exciting time to be joining the team as we undertake a programme of capital improvements to our estate.

Key activities will include carrying out site inspections to determine the most appropriate remedial works, including reviewing supplier quotations and estimates, and providing technical advice on strategic projects.

The successful applicant will have demonstrable customer service and IT skills, enabling them to respond to work requests, originating both from members of the public and colleagues.

This role is suitable for flexible working subject to the needs of the service.

Experience of working within a commercial environment, responsible for maximising opportunities to generate additional income or contract growth.

• Numerical skills to enable cost effective maintenance solutions to be selected
• Ability to work at height, in confined spaces and on site in exposed weather
• It skills to use CAD systems and Digital Mapping systems
• Communication skills to inform customers/clients of building maintenance
plans and progress. Skills need to be able to be tailored to suit the occasion
• Planning of own workload to ensure effective delivery of maintenance
works/activity
• This is a demanding role and the post holder will be required to work
autonomously, making decisions within the scope of their allocated responsibilities. Long periods of concentration are required to be able to undertake complex and detailed works, often with conflicting pressures
• Management and personal attributes to undertake the competent person function – able to effectively identify and prioritise risks; when required to act appropriately to affect devolved authority to ensure statutory compliance within the corporate estate

Job Category :Financial (Kingston & Richmond)
Client Location : 42 York Street, (Kingston & Richmond)
Hours Per Week :36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £34.00

to mid December. They will be monitoring our looked after children placements and social care teams, as well as supporting the preparation of budgets for 24-25

• Fully qualified accountant with active membership of a reputable accounting body (CIPFA, ACA, CIMA, ACCA) is desirable but applications from candidates qualified by experience are also encouraged.

• Experience of producing monthly management accounts and reporting including trend analysis of key income and expenditure areas, analysis of variances from plan and forecast and review of balance sheet items to ensure correct reporting of monthly financial position.
• Experience of producing budgets and forecasting in partnership with colleagues across services and using activity data and other intelligence to inform financial reporting and decision making.
• Experience of supporting operational reviews of financial performance and taking appropriate and timely action when projections indicates that action is required.
• Understanding of savings/efficiency programmes and ability to undertake financial modelling and ongoing financial monitoring for these schemes.
• Ability to be able to provide financial support for bids and contract negotiations and of ensuring that service models and associated costings are completed in line with standard processes and accurately reflect the resources required to deliver service specifications and contractual deliverables.

Job Category : Interims

Location :London Borough of Newham

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start              

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £317.86

Experience as a marketing manager with knowledge of latest brand management and marketing approaches including design, production, digital marketing, social media and evaluation. 

Understanding of the local government context including insight into the needs/barriers of target audiences. 

Demonstrable experience of delivering brand management and marketing strategy for a large organisation.

Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple, complex project simultaneously. 

Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills. 

Events, advertising and publication experience, specifically in magazine production.

Exceptional digital design experience including as it relates to website performance, content design and production approaches. 

Experience of supplier management including briefing and project management. 

Experience of budget management including in identifying ways to reduce costs and increase value. 

Experience in applying data led marketing including in evaluation and design of activity.

Location :Civic Offices, London Borough of Sutton

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start              

Start Time :09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £30.55

Reporting to the Service Manager or service specific Team Manager, Team Manager’s will be responsible for the leadership and management of the Service. Using  their advanced knowledge and experience  they will  lead and model  practice which meets statutory requirements and provides Early Help and prevention to reduce need and support independence using the relevant practice framework for the service. They will support the manager to develop and embed a culture of learning and improvement through supervision, mentoring,sharing of best practice knowledge, research and the competent application of  legislative frameworks, including deputising in their absence

These roles will deputise for the Service Manager or Service specific Manager and will form part of the on call duty rota as app

Job Title :HR Business Partner
Job Category : Interims
Location : Town Hall, London Borough of Havering
Hours Per Week :36.00
Start Date :Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary:£317.86

Up to 6 months
Mostly working from home – occasional office visits for meetings
looking for public sector experience or similar
Needs to have HR Ops/restructure experience

This BP role is mainly focused on Change and restructures and will lead on this and must have evidence of structure change on CV Dealing with restructures, developing structures with new roles . Will also be HR generalist– ideally public sector background for this role Other must haves: • Delivering innovative HR strategic solutions • People management including motivation, performance and capability • Provision of strategic HR advice that positively impacts service provision • Leading on change management in a complex organisation • Implementing HR policies and procedures and proposing recommendations for improvements • To present options taking a risk based approach • CIPD or equivalent, and evidence of continuous professional development • Demonstrable knowledge of both HR policies and procedures and employment law • Delivering a range of customer focused high level HR advice • Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other desktop IT applications • Proven track record of influencing senior managers in a complex organisation • Significant experience of both implementing HR policies and procedures, and proposing recommendations for improvements • Demonstrable experience of analysing extensive data and producing HR reports to facilitate business decisions • Significant experience of working with a variety of TU partners

Job Category :Interims
Location : Town Hall, London Borough of Havering
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £254.29 Per Day

Mostly working from home – occasional office visits for meetings
Will be HR generalist–public sector background for this role - Other must haves: • Delivering innovative HR strategic solutions • People management including motivation, performance and capability • Provision of strategic HR advice that positively impacts service provision • Leading on change management in a complex organisation • To present options taking a risk based approach • CIPD or equivalent, and evidence of continuous professional development , Delivering a range of customer focused high level HR advice • Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other desktop IT applications • Proven track record of influencing senior managers in a complex organisation • Significant experience of both implementing HR policies and procedures, and proposing recommendations for improvements • Demonstrable experience of analysing extensive data and producing HR reports to facilitate business decisions.

Job Category : Social Care & Health Non-Qualified
Location : Mercury House, London Borough of Havering
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Salary: £29.52
RATE: PAYE £30
WORKING: HYBRID
DURATION: 3 months (extension for the right candidate)

PLEASE NOTE: - This is not a social work post but a qualified youth work post.

The primary purpose of this role is to:

-Directly manage and matrix-manage a team and to support and implement the strategic planning of the service in relation to youth influence and participation.

-To provide leadership management in the delivery of efficient operation services to ensure the delivery of high quality, fully integrated services to children, young people and their families in line with the requirements of national legislation (including government regulation, local policy and best practice.

-Deputise for the Service Manager/Team managers across the service.

-Financial decision making and accountability for team budget within the agreed budgetary limits. Working with the wider management team to inform commissioning and market management/development to ensure service provision meets local need and delivers improving outcomes for children and families and value for money.

-To be responsible for assigned projects.

-Responsible for the HR management, performance and resource allocation for the team and to manage the ongoing development of the service through the continuous improvement and performance management structures.

-Support Face to Face working in line with Havering Children’s Services models and guide collaborative partnership working with multi-agencies

Job Title : HR Officer

Job Category : Professional

Client Location :Service Headquarters, Carmarthen Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £18.35

Job Category : General Industrial

Client Location : Harrogate, North Yorkshire County Council

Start Date : Immediate start

Salary: £12.27

*Requirements*

Clean Driving licence 

Past experience in cleaning 

*Shifts*

20/052023 - 17:00-20:00pm - Public Toilet Cleaning - Knaresborough 

21/05/2023 - 10:00-12:00pm & 16:00-20:00pm - Public Toilet Cleaning - Harrogate 

Job Category : Admin / Clerical

 Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:45

End Time :17:00

Salary: £12.27

To provide general administrative support to the Central Placements Team.

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: 

1 - To liaise with Finance section ensuring all relevant information is provided to enable contracts to be issued and payments made.

2 - To assist with the reconciliation and inputting of invoices on the payments system (Fusion).

3 - To maintain the computerised or manual systems required with details of services commissioned and providers to ensure accurate financial and care records are held by the Authority.

4 - To participate in a rota of panel support with other panel administrators, covering where necessary for sickness and annual leave.

5 - To Support the Contracts Officer, with administration of contracts and novations.

6 - To Support Panel Administrations with minute taking and scheduling of Panels for Adult and Childrens Social Care.

7 - To participate in the training of locum and/or temporary staff as required.

8 - To undertake any other duties commensurate with the level of the post, as required to ensure the efficient and effective running of the Department / Section.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

1.         Ability to set up and maintain computerised information systems effectively, including spreadsheets and database systems.

2.         Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively and methodically.

3.         Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

4.         Ability to use initiative and be self motivated.

5.         Flexibility within office environment.

6.         Ability to work both individually and as part of the team.

7.         A customer-focused approach to your work.

8.    Preferable experience of processing invoices

9.    Preferable experience in the issuing of contracts and novations