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Job Category : Sec / Admin

Location : Magdalen House, Bootle, L20 3NJ, Sefton MBC

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time :17:30

Salary: £13.63

Children’s Social Care are looking for an experienced minute taker to assist in their Business Support Service for the busy safeguarding team as a conference administrator and attending other meetings as and when needed to take minutes.  The ideal candidate will have proven clerical experience, be a team player and be able to work with set timeframes within a pressurised environment.  Applicants will be expected to have excellent word processing skills, a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word with experience of minute taking in a formal setting with the ability to take clear and concise notes.

The role entails working closely with other members of the Business Support Team and completing general administrative tasks for the service (for example, typing formal correspondence, filing, collating reports and records, answering the telephone, reception, covering for other colleagues as and when needed and post duties etc.).  Liaising with all professionals within Social Care and other bodies outside of the Local Authority, good communication skills are essential along with the capacity to deal confidentially with matters of a sensitive nature and cope with the content of child protection information.  

The post is based at Magdalen House in Bootle but due to operational reasons, the postholder may be required to work in other establishments throughout the Sefton Borough.  Please see attached job description and person specification for further detail.

JOB PURPOSE:   To provide administrative support to the Cared for Teams and Young Persons Team including the minuting of Strategy Meetings & other Professional meetings as and required.

MAIN DUTIES:

1. To type formal reports, letters, memos, and any other appropriate correspondence.

• To organise the collation and filing of reports, files, registers, and any other appropriate records in relation to the work of the Cared for Teams and Young Persons Team.

• To attend Strategy Meetings and any other meetings when necessary and to act as minute taker where appropriate.

• To undertake reception duties on behalf of the of the Cared for Teams and Young Persons Team.

• To maintain appropriate records of work undertaken and to comply with required administrative procedures, particularly the liaison with other agencies.

• To provide administrative support to the Cared for Teams and Young Persons Team.
  
• To process incoming and outgoing mail & telephone handling.

• To prepare for and attend supervision sessions and staff meetings.

• To participate in available training, and developmental activities as required.

1. To contribute as appropriate to developments within Children’s Services.

1. To undertake any other duties as directed from time to time to meet the exigencies of the service.
   
2. For operational reasons, it may be necessary for the postholder to work in other Children’s Services sites on a temporary basis.
   

To ensure that client information data is lawfully gathered, accurate and up-to-date and only divulged in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the local government common law duty of confidentiality.  Failure to apply these duties can lead to the individual or the Department facing court proceedings.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED

(on the basis of job outline)

QUALIFICATIONS

1.         OCR (RSA II) qualification or equivalent, or equivalent experience

2.         Word Processing qualification/experience

3.         GCSE English and Maths (grades A-C) or equivalent NVQ qualifications

EXPERIENCE

4.         Proven clerical experience. 

5.         Work as part of a team.

6.         Experience in providing the full range of word processing services in an office environment.

7.         Proven experience of minute-taking in a formal setting

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES 

8.         Working knowledge of Microsoft Word.

9.         Ability to take clear and concise minutes 

10.       Demonstrable organisational skills.

11.       Proven ability to prioritise work and work under pressure to meet deadlines.

12.       Good communication skills

OTHER

13.       Adaptable/Flexible.

14.       Ability to cope with sensitive nature and content of child protection information. 

Job Category : Management

Location : 3 Spilman Street, Carmarthenshire County Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00
Salary: £13.26

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

Carry out a variety of business support functions effectively and efficiently in order to ensure that the aims and objectives of the Head of Service are fully achieved.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work closely and individually with the Head of Service to enable him/her to make the best use of his/her time by dealing with the administrative and secretarial tasks.

• Be the first link between the Head of Service and people inside and outside the organization and at all levels.

• Screen telephone calls, inquiries and requests and decide on the appropriate action to be taken.

• Manage and keep the Head of Service's diary and organize appointments, ensuring there is enough time to prepare for the meetings and allow enough travel time.

• Dealing with the mail that comes into the Head of Service's office delegating tasks where appropriate and starting to take follow-up actions as required.

• Ensure that relevant and timely information is available to the Head of Service to (g)enable him to prepare well for meetings. Work proactively to ensure that all papers and correspondence are available to him/her in good time before any meeting.

• Dealing with incoming emails, faxes and letters, drafting responses and working proactively to seek answers for the purposes of monitoring the mail.

• Organizing attendance at external events e.g. meetings, conferences, arranging all travel and accommodation and providing a comprehensive timetable for the Head of Service.

• Devise and maintain office systems to support the efficient operation of the Head of Service's office e.g. filing papers, managing data.

• Provide administrative support for the site's fund car scheme.

• Carry out any other duties that it is reasonable for the Head of Service to ask you to carry out from time to time.

• Take notes/minutes in meetings as required by the Head of Service or managers.

• Organize meetings and ensure that reports are brought forward in a timely manner for review.

• Process creditor and debtor payments for the Business Support unit to ensure that the departments comply with the financial regulations and performance targets.

• Ensure that effective arrangements are made for ordering the Department's fund cars, and that all documents relating to these vehicles are kept.

• Supply during absence according to your line manager's requirements.• Carry out any reasonable request from your line manager in the department.

Job Category : Commercial

Location : 1 Derriford Business Park, Plymouth City Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £20.00

To supervise and lead a team across numerous sites. This will involve work

planning in the short term and future, the planning and coordination of burials

and cremations, developing a grounds maintenance plan and other grounds

maintenance/activities. Providing assurance to the Bereavement Service

management team that health, safety and wellbeing procedures are being

followed.

Key

accountabilities

and key

measures

Role outcomes

 Day to day management across

four cemeteries and two

crematoria and five closed

churchyards. (30%)

 Responsible for aspects of Health

and Safety in the work place

including undertaking Risk

Assessment and ensuring they

are up to date and staff comply.

Looking for continually

improvements to reduce risks

with existing health and safety

issues. (30%)

 Seek opportunities to generate

income (10%)

 Maintain collaborative working

relationships with internal and

external partners to promote

working together e.g. Street

Services, Councillors, Funeral

Directors, Clergy, Celebrants

and the Ministry of Justice. (10%)

 Maintain and improve the

competency and morale of the

team in order to deliver

Role measures

 Staff survey results evidence staff

satisfaction with management

and job satisfaction.

 Reduction in complaints received

 Reduction in incidents of Health

and Safety

 An efficient and fit for purpose

Burial and Grounds team across

the sites.

 Improved customer satisfaction

 Achievement of compliance with

the Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Policy and associated Health and

Safety Standards with no failed

inspections or improvement

notices from the HSE.

Essential

qualifications/

knowledge

 Good Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and practice

 Knowledge of using associated machinery (excavating and grave digging

and grounds maintenance equipment)

 Either 2 GCSE’s Grade A-C in English and Maths OR Literacy and

numeracy commensurate with the grading of the post.

 Full driving license

 Working knowledge of the relevant legislation and codes of practice

relating to Burial and Cremation.

Desirable

qualifications/

knowledge

 Experience of grave digging and burial

 ICCM (Institute of Cemetery and Crematoria Management) Cemetery

Qualification.

 Qualified to use mechanical excavators

 Capable of operating all grounds maintenance equipment used in the

service

 IOSH qualification or working towards it.

Essential

experience

 Manage workload and resource conflict to ensure adequate cover at all

times

 Experience of working with the public in a service or in situations of a

similar sensitive nature, as the post holder will have contact with

bereaved people/families, be present at burials and work with human

remains.

 Experience of work planning of own and a team across various sites to

ensure resources are in place to deliver service needs.

 Proven track record of driving through change and improving working

practices

Desirable

 Working within a Local Authority

experience

Essential skills ï‚§ The ability and experience of working autonomously to develop

implement and review operational changes and service improvements to

drive service efficiencies, improved performance and meet corporate

objectives.

 Day to day supervision and task management of staff

 Planning skills to ensure resources are allocated to optimise the smooth

and effective running of the service, to plan and make recommendations

for operational changes which require the ability to problem solve and be

practical when identifying solutions to ensure planned delivery of work.

 Ability to manage, adapt and prioritise own workload and that of their

staff, when priorities and pressures are changed often within short

timescales.

 Ability to interpret relevant legislation for the service and apply same to

the operational service.

 Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential to deal

with staff, customers, internal and external agencies and these situations

can sometimes be sensitive.

 Experience of budgetary controls to support financial spend in the team.
Driving skills required to drive all vehicles and plant associated with the

service.

 Effective IT skills including Microsoft Office, Excel and PowerPoint

 Be change ready, with an eye on the horizon to anticipate opportunitiesand challenges and able to adapt and flex as necessary

Job Category : Social Care - Qualified

Location : Manor road, Knaresborough HG5 0BB, North Yorkshire Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start  

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30
Salary: £30.00

Experienced Social Worker - experience across the child welfare system required. Extensive child protection and court experience essential. This includes working in a strength-based way with children their families to ensure they are safe and able to thrive. NYC has a defined practice model which is based on systemic principles, signs of safety and family seeing methodology. Excellent communication skills, knowledge of child care legislation and the ability to work effectively with the child’s network, multi-agency partners and team colleagues essential.

Must be 3 years post qualified to comply with the new agency rules, Social Work England registered without any annotations or restrictions on practice. Office based assignment. Full Drivers license and vehicle essential.

Mon - Thu 8.30am - 5pm

Fri 8.30am - 4.30pm

Job Category : Social Care - Qualified

Location : County Hall, Northallerton, DL7 8AE, North Yorkshire Council

hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :16:30

End Time : 23:00
Salary: £40.00

The Emergency Duty Team (EDT) is a vital service which provides out of hours cover for North Yorkshire Council and the City of York and is based in County Hall, Northallerton, although the service operates on a countywide basis.

The principle responsibility of EDT is to respond to out of hours requests where intervention from the Local Authority is required to safeguard a vulnerable child or adult until the next working day. 

As a qualified and registered Social Worker you will have a broad and detailed knowledge of statutory functions of Social Care and Health Services. You will be dealing with complex cases that require thorough and robust risk decision making. You will have proven experience in Social Work in one or more areas of practice, including children, adults and families. 

We start work at 4.30pm Monday to Friday through until 8:30am the next working day. At weekends and Bank Holidays we cover the 24 hour day with a rota that requires various shift patterns.

Northallerton benefits from easy connectivity to the surrounding areas of York, Leeds and Teesside via a series of rail and road links, such as the A1 and A19, as well as being easily accessible to other towns and villages within North Yorkshire. 

The base is County Hall, the role is hybrid however candidates will be required to travel throughout North Yorkshire and York. 

Hours available are variable and up to full time. Shifts will be provided for the next 8 weeks. 

The nature of the work is that out of hours shifts may produce varying working hours and we can support flexible arrangements around this.

Essential upon appointment

Knowledge

•          Knowledge and experience of good practice standards in relation to children, adults and families at a local level

•          Knowledge of the legal framework for working with children, adults and families.

•          Understand the role and value of families and carers as partners in supporting their children and adults to achieve positive outcomes.

Experience

•          Substantial post-qualifying experience within a relevant professional field.

•          Substantial case management experience of cases with complex, professional and ethical issues; which may include including adult and/or child protection, court proceedings, case conferences and other formal processes.

•          Substantial experience of multi-disciplinary working; which may include with children in need, looked after children, child protection, safeguarding adults and mental health.

Occupational Skills

•          Ability to deliver all aspects of children and adults work, including mental health, adult safeguarding and child protection.

•          Developed practice skills for this client group, including the ability to engage and communicate with children, young people, adults and families, and with a range of other stakeholders.

•          Ability to prepare written assessments, reports and service plans to a high professional standard.

•          Ability to organise and prioritise workloads effectively and to meet necessary timescales.

•          Ability to meet targets and manage own performance across a broad multi-disciplinary range.

•          Ability to deliver services and practices to agreed standards are maintained.

•          Support and challenge partners and other professional staff to ensure service and practices are delivered to the appropriate standards.

•          Ability to present, explain and negotiate the services’ activities and objectives in a wide range of contexts.

•          Competent in word processing, creating and manipulating spreadsheets, data inputting, accessing information from databases and electronic communication.  Expert skills with electronic case recording systems.

•          Customer-facing role requiring the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post

Professional Qualifications/Training/Registrations required by law, and/or essential for the performance of the role

•          Fully qualified, accredited social work professional status (CQSW, DipSW, CSS, PQCCA, AMHP)

•          Current registration with  HCPC

•          Supervision for managers’ module•          Evidence of further progress in PQ development

Job Category : Driving

Location : Wearside Service Centre, Lewisham Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 07:00

End Time : 18:00
Salary: £19.92

Enhanced DBS 

At two years experience required 

35 Hours per week 

Have to Have CPC and PCV Licences and Tacho card 

Split shifts 7.00 am to 10.30am  and 2.30 pm to 6.00 pm during school term time Role is based at Wearside Depot, Wearside Road, Ladywell.  On-Site parking available but also near to Ladywell Train Station

Job Category : Health (Non Clinical / Non Medical)

Location : Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council

Hours Per Week : 1.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 19:00
End Time : 21:30
Salary: £14.91

End Time : 21:30
Salary: £14.91

2. To evaluate activity delivery and revise the lesson plans and schemes of work as appropriate. 

3. To undertake assessments, keep records as required and provide feedback to programme managers.     

4. To create an environment in which individuals are motivated to maintain an active lifestyle and continued participation in sports, at an appropriate skill level.   

5. To liaise with Managers regarding the development of sports activities.

6. To actively promote and market sports classes and sports development programmes within the service and to promote Leisure for Life usage.

7. To maintain a professional approach to both customers and colleagues. 

8. To ensure that the environment and any equipment used is maintained to the necessary standards prior to the start of the session.

9. Take responsibility for the health and safety of themselves and their customers including all necessary risk assessments of the activity

10. To control entry of customers (where applicable) by collecting receipts/tickets.

11. To undertake personal training and development as required

12. To contribute to one-off sports events as required

13. To work as part of a team and support other sports Coaches or Instructors, as required.

To carry out health and safety responsibilities in accordance with the Division’s Health & Safety Responsibilities document.

To undertake such other duties and responsibilities commensurate with the grade, as may be reasonably required by the Service Director, or as a mutually agreed development opportunity.

KNOWLEDGE / 

EDUCATION 

            A Level  1 or 2 qualification appropriate for the sport being delivered in accordance with the NQF and QCF Frameworks, or an equivalent qualification as specified by the recognised Governing Body for the sport.

Welsh Language Level 1 - All employees will be required to undertake a basic Welsh Language Induction to reach this level. Please refer to The Welsh Language Skills Guidance online www.rctcbc.gov.uk/WelshSkills.

            First Aid at Work.

Safeguarding and Protecting Children Training CPD.

Welsh Language Level 2 to Level 5.  For details on the levels please refer to The Welsh Language Skills Guidelines, which can be found in the Welsh Services section of the RCT Council Website.EXPERIENCE    Experience of delivering sports based classes in a similar environment.      

Job Category : Admin / Clerical

Location :London Borough of Hillingdon

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00
Salary: £22.00

Please Note Before:

We are currently seeking an experienced Recruitment Administrator with the ability to add immediate value to our internal recruitment function. 

This is initially a temporary role, but could potentially lead to a longer term contract. If you are immediately available, your brief will be to assist with the day-to-day core recruitment and onboarding activities. 

You'll co-ordinate, monitor and manage workloads using the Recruitment system (Eploy), ensuring targets and team objectives are met. Key responsibilities of the role include:

 You'll work with the Recruitment Service Manager to deliver an efficient and streamlined support service to both internal and external contacts. 

Ensuring the team is fully operational and adequately staffed at all times during agreed service hours. 

Managing and prioritising tasks which require processing for authorisation, advert, recruitment, onboarding and pre-employment checks. 

Allocating queries to the team, ensuring they are answered within the agreed SLA. 

Ensuring all outstanding work is allocated and completed to agreed deadlines. 

Monitoring workloads and quality assure the work undertaken to ensure it's consistent, timely and accurate. 

About You.

 For this role, you'll need strong administrative skills in a transactional HR Admin setting. 

You don't necessarily need to be CIPD qualified but you will need an understanding of HR transactional processes. 

Experience of the Eploy recruitment system is not essential, but would be advantageous. 

You'll work with stakeholders across the organisation and external contacts so you'll need well developed written and verbal communication skills. Acting as a role model in the team, you'll share knowledge and experience when necessary, whilst respecting and valuing the contribution other team members experience can bring

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified

Location : London Borough of Sutton

Hours Per Week : 26.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00
Salary: £27.70

Court social worker - managing court proceedings and undertaking children looked after processes

Job Category : Trade & Operatives

Location : Council Offices, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week : 40.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 08:00

End Time : 17:00
Salary: £19.39

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

1.         Demonstrating excellent operational skills whilst providing skilled workmanship within the building trades as part of a multidisciplinary team maintaining, servicing and improving the council’s housing and property stock.

2.         To self-manage work within the requirements of the delivery; liaising with customers to enable the smooth running and completion of each job, providing diagnoses and making recommendations regarding the remedial work required to defects.    

3.         To provide a high quality and excellent level of service to the residents of Southwark, focused on achieving required turnaround in accordance with council targets and to required standard. 

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Responsibilities

1.         To provide knowledge, understanding and execution of installation, repairs and maintenance, inspection of equipment of operational buildings, features and fittings within housing managed stock and infrastructure.

2.         To be responsible for completing a range of Repair & Maintenance work to a professional standard and highly productive level, acting with minimum supervision and a large degree of self management.

3.         Carry out to the highest standard all aspects of repair / renewal work to items in various trades such as ground works, carpentry, plumbing, glazing and finishing trades (painting & decorating, plastering / tilling). Undertake a broad range of multi-skilled repair activities to provide a comprehensive repair service.

4.         To maintain a level of knowledge and skill necessary to effectively perform the duties of the post and comply with any appropriate standards of continuing professional development.

5.         To ensure all work and related activities are carried out in accordance with current H&S legislation, Southwark’s safety management systems, contract specifications/instructions and good working practices at all times.

6.         To provide support, guidance, training and mentoring for apprentices, trainees or work colleagues through specialist knowledge and experience.

Southwark Repairs

Southwark Repairs provides 24 hours, seven day a week repairs and maintenance services to the residents of Southwark Council housing stock. The service delivers approximately 50,000 individual repair orders and over 1000 refurbishments to void properties each year.

Organisational Objectives

The priorities for the division to which this role will be a major contributor are:

• A Fit for the Future Service that puts the residents needs at the heart of the service

• To deliver the service well, so our residents say they are:

• Proud of their home, their block and estate
• Living in a safe, well maintained home and building
• Listened to by their landlord

• To invest in people and actively manage individual and team performance whilst ensuring that the skills required for excellence are in place. 

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:

1.         City And Guilds plumbing NVQ 2 or equivalent, or City and Guild Carpentry NVQ 3 or equivalent

2.         City and Guild Multi-skilled NVQ 3 or equivalent

3.         Good level of literacy and numeracy

4.         Demonstrate evidence of continued professional and personal development within a relevant discipline

5.         Understanding of issues around the delivery of maintenance and refurbishment contracts in relation to a housing repairs environment. 

6.         Understanding of relevant legislation and codes of practice including H&S, Building Regulations, Fire Regulations, etc.

Experience:

7.         Demonstrable experience of working in the building and trades industry carrying out repairs and maintenance to void and tenanted properties.

8.         Experience of working within diverse communities of all abilities

9.         Experience of working Independently making decisions required for the completion of jobs

10.       Experience of working within teams

11.       Demonstrable experience of customer service matters while working with customers in the community.

Aptitudes, Skills & Competencies:

12.       Ability to formulate practical solutions to problems given the constraints of the situation.

13.       Ability to make well reasoned decisions based on available information, within given timeframes.

14.       Ability to plan, prioritise and organise workload to meet required deadlines

15.       Ability to respond to the needs of customers politely and efficiently, and to deal with issues calmly and objectively

16.       Can use the available information technology effectively, and efficiently to meet work demands

17.       Ability to lead and motivate trainee’s, apprentices or staff, to act as a coach and mentor to these

Job Category : Commercial

Location : 1 Derriford Business Park, Plymouth City Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £20.00


To supervise and lead a team across numerous sites. This will involve work

planning in the short term and future, the planning and coordination of burials

and cremations, developing a grounds maintenance plan and other grounds

maintenance/activities. Providing assurance to the Bereavement Service

management team that health, safety and wellbeing procedures are being

followed.


Role outcomes

 Day to day management across

four cemeteries and two

crematoria and five closed

churchyards. (30%)

 Responsible for aspects of Health

and Safety in the work place

including undertaking Risk

Assessment and ensuring they

are up to date and staff comply.

Looking for continually

improvements to reduce risks

with existing health and safety

issues. (30%)

 Seek opportunities to generate

income (10%)

 Maintain collaborative working

relationships with internal and

external partners to promote

working together e.g. Street

Services, Councillors, Funeral

Directors, Clergy, Celebrants

and the Ministry of Justice. (10%


Management of operational staff: to include performance management,

training, recruitment and allocation of work resources and equipment.

This will include people management responsibilities e.g. managing

attendance, annual performance reviews, and regular review discussions.

(15%)

 Motivate the team to deliver excellent, efficient customer service. (5%)

 Responsible for aspects of Health and Safety in the workplace including

undertaking Risk Assessments and their annual review. Knowledge of

Codes of Practice in the service area, ensuring that a safe working

environment is maintained at all times by implementing and monitoring in

accordance with corporate Health and Safety guidelines and promoting a

positive Health and Safety at work attitude throughout the service area

for both our staff, customers and general public. (15%)

 Responsible for maintaining up to date knowledge of the latest policy,

statutory rules and regulations for service delivery. Ensure that the

Bereavement Service management team are kept appraised of

developments. (10%)


Essential

qualifications/

knowledge

 Good Knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and practice

 Knowledge of using associated machinery (excavating and grave digging

and grounds maintenance equipment)

Either 2 GCSE’s Grade A-C in English and Maths OR Literacy and

numeracy commensurate with the grading of the post.

 Full driving license

 Working knowledge of the relevant legislation and codes of practice

relating to Burial and Cremation.


Experience of grave digging and burial

 ICCM (Institute of Cemetery and Crematoria Management) Cemetery

Qualification.

 Qualified to use mechanical excavators

 Capable of operating all grounds maintenance equipment used in the

service

 IOSH qualification or working towards it.

Essential

experience

 Manage workload and resource conflict to ensure adequate cover at all

times

 Experience of working with the public in a service or in situations of a

similar sensitive nature, as the post holder will have contact with

bereaved people/families, be present at burials and work with human

remains.

 Experience of work planning of own and a team across various sites to

ensure resources are in place to deliver service needs.

 Proven track record of driving through change and improving working

practices

Desirable

 Working within a Local Authority

experience

Essential skills ï‚§ The ability and experience of working autonomously to develop

implement and review operational changes and service improvements to

drive service efficiencies, improved performance and meet corporate

objectives.

 Day to day supervision and task management of staff

 Planning skills to ensure resources are allocated to optimise the smooth

and effective running of the service, to plan and make recommendations

for operational changes which require the ability to problem solve and be

practical when identifying solutions to ensure planned delivery of work.

 Ability to manage, adapt and prioritise own workload and that of their

staff, when priorities and pressures are changed often within short

timescales.

 Ability to interpret relevant legislation for the service and apply same to

the operational service.

 Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are essential to deal

with staff, customers, internal and external agencies and these situations

can sometimes be sensitive.

 Experience of budgetary controls to support financial spend in the team.

Driving skills required to drive all vehicles and plant associated with the

service.

 Effective IT skills including Microsoft Office, Excel and PowerPoint

 Be change ready, with an eye on the horizon to anticipate opportunities

and challenges and able to adapt and flex as necessary.

Job Category : Manual Labour

Location : Prince Rock Depot, Plymouth City Council

Hours Per Week :37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 06:30

End Time : 16:15
Salary: £12.85

Role outcomes

Role measures

Key

accountabilities

and key measures

 Removal of waste or recycling from

residential and business properties and

public land/highway in accordance with

Health and Safety guidelines and Codes of

Practice. Carry out grounds maintenance

and cleansing as directed in a safe working

manner within Codes of practice. (80%)

 Responsible for cleaning locations where

spillages and split bags have taken place

and responsible for safe removal of

hazardous substances. Ensure areas are

left clean and tidy after collections

/operations, including replacement of bins.

(15%)

 Report unsafe working practices to line

manager. (5%)

 Functional skills in English and Maths level 1, and/or the ability to follow

straightforward oral and written instructions and keep basic work records,

 Knowledge of Health and Safety in an operational environment

 Knowledge of customer care standards

 Knowledge of Road Traffic Legislation and Safety

 Knowledge of recycling materials

 Trained in Manual Handling.

Desirable

qualifications/

knowledge

 Functional skills in English and Maths Level 2, or equivalent

 Knowledge of waste and recycling collection service

 NVQ Level 2 Waste Management

 Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation and COSHH

 Knowledge of Street Cleansing service

 Knowledge of vehicle safety within a front line service area

 Full driving licence.

Essential

experience

 Experience of labouring work or heavy manual work

 Experience in delivering high standards of customer care.

 Experience of working in a waste based environment

 Experience of undertaking a variety of manual tasks in a recycling facility.

 Experience of Health & Safety in an operational environment

Desirable

experience

 Experience of waste collection service

 Experience of Street Cleansing service

Essential skills

 Physical skills required to lift, pull, and push container bins at periodic times of the

day.

 Ability to solve straight forward problems regarding access issues and conditions

of containers.

 Communication skills required to exchange information with both staff and

members of the public where tact and diplomacy will be required. Skills to use specialist equipment after receiving training for the role.

Collection of Garden waste across the city

Job Category : Management

Location : East Gate/ Spilman St, Carmarthenshire County Council

Hours Per Week :37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30
Salary: £19.66

Main Purpose of Job

To provide professional HR advice, guidance and support to Heads of Service, departmental managers, Head Teachers, and Governors considering departmental business objectives, corporate policies, and statutory requirements. 

To support a range of strategic and operational HR projects including policy development and implementation.

Key responsibilities

1.         Provide clear and timely advice on all employment aspects including employee relations, attendance management, contractual matters, organisational change and redundancy consultation, enabling managers and head teachers to make informed decisions and ensuring that statutory and legal obligations are met, and professional standards are maintained.

2.         Develop an understanding of different service areas to provide high quality, practical and timely solutions effectively. Supporting workforce planning in these services, including the analysis and provision of relevant management information/workforce data, in conjunction with the team and Lead Business Partner.

3.         Support collaborative working opportunities and work closely with People Management colleagues as appropriate to provide an integrated and shared service.

4.         Contribute to overall policy development programme, lead on agreed policy areas, developing communication strategies to sit alongside agreed policies.   

5.         Responsible for developing and maintaining relevant processes and documentation to achieve consistency of approach in the provision of advice and guidance to managers, employees and headteachers.

6.         Provide coaching and development to managers, staff, councillors, and School Governing Bodies to support their people management responsibilities. Develop and deliver training/briefing sessions for departmental and schools’ managers.

7.         Advise departments and schools in the undertaking of disciplinary and grievance investigations, hearings and appeals considering relevant employment legislation and case law including quality assuring documentation prior to release for formal hearings.

8.         Provide timely advice and support, including the analysis and provision of absence data, to departments and schools enabling effective attendance management and work collaboratively with Occupational Health Centre to reduce absence levels.

9.         Attend Adult and/or Children Safeguarding strategy meetings to provide advice on employment issues in cases involving multi-disciplinary agencies, ensuring HR Professional Abuse Strategy Meeting records are maintained in an accurate and timely manner and relevant notifications to external organisations are undertaken. 

10.       Support the Recruitment Advisory Team in advising recruiting managers in developing and designing job profiles, advertisements and methods of interview with a view to attracting and appointing applicants with the requisite skills and aptitude.

11.       Any other duty as is reasonable commensurate with the grade and competencies for the post.

Essential Criteria

Qualifications, Vocational training and Professional Memberships

CIPD Level 5 intermediate qualifications equivalent to degree standard

Associate Membership of the CIPD

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Job Related Skills and Competencies

Demonstrates proficient analytical skills and ability to diagnose trends.

Ability to analyse complex situations and provide timely and practical advice on personnel matters.

Excellent interpersonal skills and effective negotiation skills with a range of people and organisations, managing conflict as appropriate.

Research skills to prepare and present on a range of people management topics.

Able to work to deadlines and manage several projects.

Ability to think strategically and innovatively with diplomacy and political sensitivity.

Proficient IT skills, including Microsoft Office

Knowledge

Up to date knowledge of employment pensions and equalities legislation and best practice

Understanding of managing change principles

Knowledge of current workforce issues within local government

Understanding of Business Partner service delivery model

Experience

Demonstrable HR experience within a multi-disciplined organisation.

Proven experience of dealing with organisational change.

Experience of providing operational HR advice and guidance

Personal qualities

Ability to prioritise and respond positively when given a number of objectives.

Collaborative and flexible approach

Courage to challenge

Personally credible

Determined and resourcefulTeam orientated

Job Category : Management

Location : East Gate/ Spilman St, Carmarthenshire County Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30
Salary: £16.10


Working as part of the HR team to provide a comprehensive HR support role. You will work collaboratively with HR Business Partners (HRBPs) across People Management and support the analysis and interpretation of workforce data, development, and delivery of workforce plans.  You will provide support and advice on all HR matters across all Departments and schools, working closely with HRBPs to support on employee relations matters.

Working closely with the employee services team, you will also contribute to corporate recruitment developments (including new IT solutions), as well as supporting the development and maintenance of corporate recruitment strategies.

Key responsibilities

1.         Provide general HR advice on all employment matters including employee relations, attendance management, pensions, contractual matters, and organisational change enabling managers and head teachers to make informed decisions. 

2.         Provide timely advice and support to departments and schools in effective attendance management and work collaboratively with Occupational Health Centre to reduce absence levels.

3.         Support collaborative working opportunities and work closely with People Management colleagues as appropriate to provide an integrated and shared service.

4.         Co-ordinate and assist in producing clear communications, written and verbal for all levels of staff and managers, including school leadership groups. 

5.         Compile and analyse internal and wider sector recruitment, retention, and workforce data, producing reports to inform recruitment interventions and actions and workforce planning.

6.         Co-ordinate service specific recruitment campaigns, working with Managers, Employee Services team and business partners to maximise the attraction of people to jobs and careers in the Authority. 

7.         Work closely with the HR Business Partners, across People Management to develop and maintain a Recruitment & Retention Strategy and workforce plan corporately.

8.         Support the implementation of a new corporate recruitment system, ensuring that all managers are fully engaged in this and all new recruitment developments.

Essential Criteria

Qualifications, Vocational training and Professional Memberships

CIPD Level 3 Foundation qualifications or equivalent experience in a relevant field Associate Membership of CIPD or willingness to work towards

Job Related Skills and Competencies

Ability to work within tight deadlines.

Ability to flex work priorities according to changing demands.

Collaborate and manage relationships with a wide variety of people at different levels both within the Authority, and external to the Authority.

Demonstrate proficient analytical skills and the ability to diagnose trends. 

Communicate well with others.

Excellent numeracy and literacy skills.

Knowledge

Understanding employment and equalities legislation and best practice 

Good working knowledge of IT Systems

Experience

Experience of working with people 

Experience of dealing with organisational change 

Experience of working with employment legislation 

Experience of using IT systems

Experience of using data to inform ideas and influence

Personal qualities

Ability to prioritise and respond positively when given several objectives.

Establish and maintain good relationships. 

Ask questions and accept challenge. 

Integrity 

Maintain the knowledge needed to undertake the job and share that knowledge. Monitor the quality of your own work, and be willing to learn and develop in the job

Job Category : Planning

Location : Brympton Way, Somerset Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:30
Salary: £30.34

Consider and process applications for work to trees covered by Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs). To write reports and make recommendations in order to ensure consistency and quality, compliance with statutory deadlines and timescales; including preparing for any appeals against a decision of the Council relating to works to trees subject of a TPO.

Consider and process notifications for works to trees within conservation areas (CA), negotiate with applicants as required and prepare associated technical reports as necessary.

To prepare new tree preservation orders and update old tree preservation orders as necessary, including surveys, preparation of reports, aspects of objections and the efficient maintenance of records.

Consider and process notifications for removal of hedgerows in the open countryside and prepare associated technical reports as necessary.

Support Planning Enforcement in respect of investigations of unauthorised tree works or hedgerow removals. Advise on the Council's response in respect of unauthorised works to trees under TPO or within a Conservation Area and where necessary to appear as the Council's technical expert at any inquiry, hearing or court case arising there from.

When consulted advise on planning applications and discharge of conditions, which can include complex/contentious applications and projects, to achieve the Council’s statutory and non-statutory planning functions.

Prepare reports to present evidence as technical expert through written representation, at hearing and at planning inquiries.

Prepare and present reports as necessary to committee meetings, officers and public groups.

Provide arboriculturally advice and expert service independently or as part of a multi-disciplinary team to the Council as a whole. Advise other departments on the employment of arboriculturally consultants and contractors. Provide specialist arboriculturally advice as necessary, as part of the preparation of planning policies (through the Statutory Development Plan process) and development briefs to ensure that trees are considered and a high quality of environment is achieved.

Knowledge

•

• Town & Country Planning legislation in

relation to trees together with Hedgerow

Regulations and High Hedge legislation

✓

• Knowledge of British Standard(s)

BS5837:2012 – Trees in relation to

design, demolition and construction and

BS3998:2010 – Recommendations for

tree work

✓

• Knowledge of relevant Health and Safety

legislation âœ“

• Knowledge of canopy cover / mapping (IT)

tools âœ“

• Ability to accurately identify common

species of trees and shrubs âœ“

Experience

• Experience and competency in assessing

the health and condition of trees

✓

• Experience and ability of working as part

of a multi-disciplinary team

✓

• Experience and working knowledge of

the local government planning process,

including planning enforcement

procedures

✓

• IT literate with experience of using word

processing, spreadsheets, GIS/map

based systems and database packages

as well as the internet

✓

• Ability to provide detailed advice across a

range of arboriculturally issues in a

development management/planning

environment, including process and

procedural matters

✓

Qualifications / Registrations / Certifications JOB DESCRIPTION

• HND, ABC Level 4 Diploma in

Arboriculture or equivalent, minimum QCF

level 3

✓

• Lantra award for Professional Tree

Inspection âœ“

• Membership of Arboriculturally Association âœ“

Skills

• Customer focussed approach with a drive

for continuous improvement

✓

• Good negotiation skills and the ability to

contribute positively to the resolution of

issues

✓

• Working under pressure and to strict

deadlines, prioritising, organising, and

planning own workloads

✓

• Ability to communicate with a range of

stakeholders clearly and proactively

✓

• Adaptation and responding to change âœ“

• Ability to use influence and persuasion to

achieve objectives

✓

• Flexible approach to the working day âœ“

• Shares knowledge and expertise with

others

✓

• Ability to research relevant topics to

remain up to date with current industry

best practice, including attaining

professional / vocational qualifications

✓

• Full drivers’ licence âœ“

• Professional experience of working in asimilar role within a Local Authority