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Job Category : Social Care - Unqualified.
Location : Bridgewood Nursing Home, Enfield Council.
Hours Per Week : 36.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:30.
Salary: £8.72.
DBS REQUIRED

Job Summary
To assist in the provision of the catering service to the standards required by the authority.

Candidate Profile
Some experience of preparing and cooking food
To be able to communicate at a reasonable level
To be aware of procedures with regards to cleanliness and storage of food, including food rotation.
To be able to complete simple forms and read basic instructions in English (this is required as cleaning rotas need to be filled in as do other daily records and instructions are often written)
To have received an introduction to Food Hygiene training
Needs verified photo ID.
Health & Safety
Must have experience in catering or service industry and have knowledge of Food Hygiene Regulations. Must be well presented with high standards of personal hygiene. No jewellery or nail polish to be worn. All catering staff must have undergone pre-employment health screening.
Personal Protective Equipment
Must possess overall, headgear, sensible shoes with non-slip soles essential.

Job Category : Social Care - Qualified.
Location : Civic Centre, Enfield Council.
Hours Per Week : 35.00.
Start Date : Immediate start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:00.
Salary: £25.00 per hour.
5 years + experience

Degree in Social Work (minimum Upper Second, if classified) or equivalent. Must be HPCP registered
Knowledge and understanding of child development, relevant social policy and key legislation, with strategic reference to safeguarding
Excellent spoken and written English, and computer literacy adequate to case recording and production of fit-for-purpose reports within strict deadlines
Communication skills in direct work with children, and proven ability to work in partnership with parents/carers, ensuring children’s needs are paramount.
Familiarity with diversity/equality principles in general, and specific experience of working in a culturally/ethnically diverse locality

Social Worker - Adolescent Support Team - South Kent
Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified
Location: Kent
Start Date: Immediate start
Salary: £21.50

I have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join a dynamic and vibrant Adolescent support team based in Maidstone, Kent. You will need to be SWE Registered and have an enhanced DBS.

You will be required to show your experience and skills from the first day within your assignment.

Adolescent experience is required however any previous children's social services experience or transitions

This is a community based role so car drivers would be preferable.

Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified.
Location: Kent.
Start Date: Immediate start.
Salary: £21.50.

Are you a social worker with experience working with children, young people and families and interested in a great opportunity to join a specialist team?
We are looking to recruit a social worker to work with deaf, deaf/blind and visually impaired children, young people and their families within the 0 – 25 Lifespan Pathway. We offer a county wide service to children and young people between the ages of 0 – 25 and have flexible bases to work from including home working where appropriate.
The team comprises of motivated and experienced staff who are committed to making a difference. Your work will include new referrals for assessment of need, planning, implementing and reviewing actions to safeguard and protect the wellbeing of children and young people with Sensory needs as well as supporting children who are in need as well as looked after children. You will be involved in developing new initiatives and partnerships with children, young people, parents and partner agencies.
We can offer a supportive team of deaf and hearing people, regular supervision and a significant investment in training and career development. This includes statutory and generic training opportunities as well as specialist training in sensory skills.

Requirements:
HCPC registered

Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified.
Location: Kent.
Start Date: Immediate Start.
Salary: £21.50 per hour.

Nations Recruitment has a job vacancy for a Occupational Therapist to work full-time based in Maidstone and Dover. The ideal candidates will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of Ocupational Therapist and be registered with the HCPC.
Job Summary:
To manage patients using evidence based and patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, which provide patients with the confidence, skills and coping strategies required for independent living.

Key Responsibilities:
Manages and co-ordinates the implementation of individual treatment plans for occupational therapy services ensuring treatments, activities and interventions are delivered through effective application and communication.
Receives and responds promptly to referrals undertaking patient assessments to identify and prioritise patient needs before planning and delivering the appropriate and relevant interventions either on an individual or group basis. Maintains accurate and timely records detailing each patients rehabilitation / progress.
Ensures the effective and efficient management of more junior staff.

Maintains and develops close working relationships with professional and clinical colleagues within the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring clinical practice is in line with policies and procedures and complies with statutory regulations and quality standards.
Contributes to business growth by actively promoting the therapy services in line with the local units' business plan.

Requirements:
Degree or equivalent within Occupational Therapy
HCPC registered as an Occupational Therapist
Recent NHS experience either pre or post qualification.

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Job Category : Social Care - Unqualified.
Client Location : Civic Centre, Enfield Council.
Hours Per Week : 35.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:30.
Salary: £17.27.

• To undertake, organise and develop the efficient and effective implementation of administrative procedures in relation to the EHC needs assessment and review of children/young people with special educational needs and disability ensuring compliance with statutory deadlines
• To ensure that appropriate provision and arrangements, including travel assistance, are made to meet the needs of pupils with SEND taking into account the efficient use of LA resources
• Provide written and verbal advice on the statutory procedures to parents, educational settings, Health and Social Services, support services and other agencies ensuring supportive, sensitive and constructive liaison so that decisions are well supported and have maximum potential for sustainability
• Take appropriate action including the negotiation and agreement of placement and provision of specialist support
• Write EHCPs taking all professional and parental advice into consideration.
• Attend and contribute to Multi Agency Meetings within educational settings to support the development and agreement of outcomes and provision.
• To chair Multi Agency Meetings, where appropriate, to co-ordinate the development and agreement of outcomes and provision.
• Consult and negotiate with headteachers and others to ensure that appropriate provision is made for pupils with SEND
• Maintain, review and amend EHCPs
• Liaise with other LAs in respect of children and young people moving out of borough/moving into Enfield
• Ensure arrangements for the appropriate placement of children with SEND in schools, Resourced Provision, Special Schools and other educational facilities/establishments as required
• To ensure that arrangements for travel assistance are considered and arranged as appropriate
• Attend meetings with educational settings and parents to work proactively to minimise the number of cases which are put forward to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST)
• Prepare relevant documents e.g. a chronology, in response to appeals to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal/legal proceedings.
• Assist the Senior Advisory Officers and SEND Service Manager with the preparation of case statements/documents in response to appeals to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal/legal proceedings.
• Liaise with Legal Services and witnesses for the LA, as required, in relation to appeals to the Special Educational Needs Tribunal/legal proceedings.
• Consult with educational settings, parents and other professionals in relation to placement, provision, reviews and the maintenance of EHCPs
• To undertake appropriate casework in respect of key transition stages and transport assistance for children and young people with SEN
• To produce a range of written correspondence, including draft responses to complaints or enquiries from MPs, Solicitors, parents, educational settings in conjunction with the Senior Advisory Officers and SEND Service Manager
• To monitor SEND contracts to ensure performance indicators have been reached
• To represent the SEND Service at a range of meetings/panels to present advice regarding pupils with SEND
• Make appropriate and timely inputs to the SEND data system as require
• Support the SEND Service Manager by assisting with the induction of new members of staff
• Contribute to Case Management meetings and support the service to identify solutions in relation to complex cases

2. Support and Guidance
   • To provide support and guidance to operational support officers
   • To assist the daily work of the operational support officers by identifying priorities and making operational decisions with regards to conflicting deadlines
3. Partnership working and training
   • Attend meetings with parents, their advocates, parent groups, educational settings, Services or any stakeholder to resolve any disputes/disagreements/offer information regarding the business of the SEND Service
   • Encourage and develop positive relationships with educational settings, parents and other agencies through high quality liaison and communication
   • Consult and negotiate with educational settings and services in respect of children/young people with SEND to ensure that appropriate provision is made
   • Participate in training of LA, school and college staff, Governors and other agencies in relation to the statutory processes and procedures
   • Participate in inter-agency initiatives and priorities which are consistent with the needs of the SEND Section
   • Liaise with Health and Social Services, voluntary groups and other agencies as required and work in partnership to develop provision for children/young people with SEN

Job Category : Housing.
Location : Edmonton Centre, Enfield Council.
Hours Per Week : 35.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:00.
Salary: £16.29.

DBS REQUIRED
Ensure that statutory obligations under the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002 (CLRA) and Section 20 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985 and the relevant consultation requirements are fully met.
To be responsible for issuing and successfully managing the processing of all Notices under the CLRA 2002 within the statutory deadlines.
Job Specifics – Skills, Experience
(Management information; In this section you should list between 4 and a maximum of 8 essential recruitment and selection criteria and 2 desirable criteria). The information you provide in this section will be used in the recruitment application process to assess the suitability of job applicants.

Essential:

1. Experience of dealing with public and giving clear and unambiguous advice on complex issues.
2. Ability to meet deadlines and targets, demonstrating ability to achieve challenging targets despite constraints and obstacles.
3. Ability to understand, summarise and explain complex documents, for example leases.
4. Experience of debt recovery.
5. High level of numeracy to calculate service charges.
6. Demonstrate high level of verbal and written communication skills.
7. Demonstrate high level of customer service skills.
8. Must have a command of spoken English which is sufficient to enable the effective performance of the role.

Desirable:

1. Experience of dealing with legal recovery of service charges

Job Category : Housing.
Location :Edmonton Centre, Enfield Council.
Hours Per Week : 21.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:00.
Salary: £16.05.

"This is a new role within a new team and therefore postholders will need to be adaptable as the service will need to evolve during the implementation process. This role sits within the Outreach Team.
Customer Contact Officers will offer proactive housing advice to households who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, providing a first point of contact for residents with housing related problems. Officers will:
• Offer a reactive service to residents contacting the service for the first time or needing one off advice or assistance
• Offer a proactive service to residents identified as being at risk of homelessness by the Early Intervention Team
The Outreach Team will be flexibly located with core hubs across the borough. Services will also be provided from a wide range of locations including other agencies and these will change over time.
The role is to provide effective, high quality support to customers to help them prevent or relieve their homelessness and then sustain their accommodation by providing specialist advice and support.

Job Category: Legal.
Location: Luton.
Start Date: Immediate Start.
Salary: £24.28.

Nations Recruitment are excited to recruit a Senior Solicitor on behalf of Luton Borough Council.
As Senior Solicitor you will responsible to provide legal services to the Council and Departmental Executives. You will be an ambassador providing legal advice on various case loads particularly in relation to child care and related matters.
To be successful in this role you must be able to demonstrate the ability to undertake legal work with minimum supervision as well as considerable exposure dealing with complex childcare cases, experience of advocacy for the council before Courts and Tribunals.

About The Role
Provide legal advice, often in highly complex matter to Officers and Members of the Council.
Represent the Council before Courts and Tribunals as an unsupervised advocate.
Complying with all current practices and procedures, taking reasonable actions to achieve solution.
Preparing reports and give legal procedural advice on complex matters to enable decision in accordance with the law.
Support on projects across various departments when necessary to implement polices accordingly.
Provide extensive assistance to Principal Solicitor (Social Service) to develop the Social Services Team

About You
Substantial experience of advocacy before Courts and Tribunals and dealing with childcare case.
Essential knowledge of Child Care Law with demonstrable knowledge of English Law and Law of Evidence.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to articulate both written and verbal.
Highly organised, demonstrating ability to successfully plan/prioritise own caseloads
Persuasive with the ability to influence and render judgement.
Qualified Solicitor with current practicing certificate
Qualified Barrister with right of audience under paragraph 402.1© and 402.2 of the Code of Conduct for Barristers in England and Wales.
Eligible to work in the UK.

Job Category: Finance.
Location: Luton, Bedfordshire.
Start Date: Immediate Start.
Salary: £412.50 per day.

Nations Recruitment is looking for a Senior Accountant.

Ideally you will be a qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) and have previous experience across the following areas: Strong financial control and process control Financial Accounting Consolidation of Financial Statements Internal Financial Reporting Internal and External Audit Management Strong business partnering and stakeholder management Experience within Public Sector, Charity, Trusts or similar sectors would be beneficial You will need to be available immediately for interview and for an immediate start.

Children's Occupational Therapist
Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified.
Location: Luton.
Start Date: Immediate Start.
Hours per week: 37.
Salary:£30.00.

About the job
To work as an Occupational Therapist dealing with complex cases of vulnerable / at risk children with a disability. Under the direction of the Team manager provide advice, guidance and assistance to team members and other professionals, to support best practice in professional Occupational Therapy services provided by the Team.

About you
We are looking for someone who has experience in a field of physical disability and experience of coaching and mentoring including practice teaching.
The ideal candidate will need to have a high level of competence in occupational therapy practice and be able to manage cases in line with national quality standards and best practice.
You’ll need good commitment to delivering a quality service within a team and have excellent organisational, time management and administrative skills.
You’ll need to make and act upon sound professional judgements and work to complex and conflicting demands. We need a strong negotiator who can influence others and be able to research and initiate change and development.
You will have the opportunity to develop on your already existing knowledge of current legislation, national guidance, best practice and social care needs.

We do ask that you have a diploma or degree in Occupational Therapy and Health Professions Council registration.
This is a public facing role so you’ll need to show off your fluency in speaking and writing English.

Social Worker - Family Safeguarding
Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified.
Location: Luton.
Start Date: Immediate Start.
Hours per week: 37.
Salary: £27.00 - £38,70

About the job
If you’re a qualified social worker who wants to join a forward-thinking and transformational council, then look no further.

We are looking for social workers in the South £27.00 , North £32.00, Central £38.70 and West £32.00

As a family safeguarding Social worker you will use your strong skills to promote a great service to families and the children involved. You'll manage the case load effectively in planning, coordinating, monitoring and reviewing using your excellent knowledge of best practice and legislation. No two days are the same with working in a diverse demographic within a town of diverse communities.
This is an exciting role where you will be promoting the best interests for children and young people at all times.

Interviews: Every Thursday

About you
Our ideal candidates will need to have substantial post qualifying experience in QSW - Childrens
We need someone who has the ability to make professional judgements in a multi-disciplinary setting including negotiating resources.
You’ll need to be an effective communicator and able to work with a range of different service users and be able to lead and chair multi-disciplinary meetings and represent the agency in a formal setting or similar.
You will need to be able to influence service delivery by identifying gaps in service and be able to maintain high quality records, write clear concise reports and correspondence when dealing with complex issues.

Requirements of the Social Worker:
Degree or equivalent in social work
Current Social Work England registration
Significant senior level frontline experience within Children's Services
Frontline
Referral & Assessment exp
Intake assessments exp
Child Protection
Care Proceedings
Ability to manage own case load is essential.

Job Category : Housing.
Location : Edmonton Centre, Enfield Council.
Hours Per Week : 35.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:00.
Salary: £17.27.

To provide a comprehensive and responsive management and support service for homeless households placed in privately leased and hostel type accommodation under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996.
To ensure that the units of temporary accommodation are used economically and effectively; that they remain in a good state of repair and compliant to statutory standards with regard to Health and Safety and suitability.
To maintain effective communication and be the department’s point of contact for; homeless households living in hostel and privately leased accommodation, Landlords and agents of accommodation providers and all associated internal and external organisations.
To ensure all records relating to the units of temporary accommodation and homeless households are maintained, up to date and accurate.
Candidates must have a clean UK driving license and access to their own vehicle. Knowledge of Northgate essential.

Essential:

1. Proven relevant Housing Management experience in dealing with temporary accommodation in either the private or public sector.
2. Ability to deal with tenants and landlords in a challenging environment with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
3. Able to work to conflicting deadlines without direct supervision and able to manage time and resources efficiently
4. Possess a working knowledge of welfare benefit entitlements including Housing Benefit available to tenants
5. An understanding and commitment to the provision of a quality service in a customer focused environment.

Desirable:

1. A good working knowledge of IT systems; Word, Excel, accounting and repair systems
2. A good understanding of building maintenance and repairs issues

Job Category : Human Resources.
Location : Lambeth Town Hall, London Borough of Lambeth.
Hours Per Week : 35.00.
Start Date : Immediate Start.
Start Time : 09:00.
End Time : 17:30.
Salary: £21.68.

1. The HR OD is a small team of 10 officers based corporately on programmes such as Early Talent and Apprenticeships, Personal Growth, Digital Learning and Technology, Professional Development and Leadership and Management.
2. The postholder will be expected to review and develop a comprehensive Leadership and Management Programme (project management based using a Project Initiation Document (PID)) to include development of new corporate leadership behaviours.
3. The successful candidate must have proven experience of developing a comprehensive leadership and management programme in a large public sector organisation, ideally local Government.
   Agencies will see this information to help submit suitable candidates for this engagement. This is more important than the job description

Skills
(HCC) Learning and talent development – completed needs analysis, design and delivery of basic procedures training, promotes learning strategies and understands how to gain access to blended learning activities. Essential
A proven track record of managing programmes to time and budget
Capable of working with people at all levels across a large organisation.
Desirable: Experience of designing and working with E Learning resources

Qualifications/Certifications
(HCC) CIPD qualified. Essential
Knowledge of project administration, planning, audit and evaluation

Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified.
Location: Luton.
Start Date: Immediate Start.
Hours per week: 37.
Salary: £38.00.

About the job
The Family Safeguarding Service is a dynamic front line service which identifies, assesses and manages risk for children and vulnerable families. Working together with our MASH and Family Safeguarding colleagues, and our partners such as the police, health, and early help we focus on finding the best solutions for children and families. There’s plenty of opportunity to step up in your career or to consolidate your experience.
We’re passionate about helping you develop your career through regular supervision, coaching and mentoring. We are proud about the rapid achievements we’ve made through our daily SCRUM meetings and the imbedded Agile improvement framework. We work SMART and we strive for the best.

About you
You will be an experienced social worker with strong communications skills. You will lead and manage an experienced team of managers, practitioners, professionals within the Family Safeguarding Service aimed at supporting the best possible outcomes for children and young people. You will be able to build effective relationships with children and families, staff, public and other professionals.

You should have in-depth knowledge of legislation national guidance and best practice relevant to the post including statutory responsibilities relating to Children and Family Services, including appropriate quality standards and you’ll be part of a team that achieve high levels of performance.
We do ask that you have Dip SW, CQSW or recognised equivalent, substantial professional social work qualification and registered by the Social Work England.