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Job Category: Admin & Clerical
Job location: Newmarket Walk, Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, CF47 8EL, 
Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £13.69 per hour

Work Pattern Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm, Friday 9am - 4:30pm

Job Category: Housing

Job location: Council Offices, Southfield Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 2TX,

Charnwood Borough Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate star

tSalary: £33.00 per hour

Key Relationships/Liaison with:    Private owners, landlords and tenants, Internal and external partners in the public and private sector, Letting Agents.Job Purpose�    To support the improvement and upkeep of housing standards and conditions in the private sector in the Charnwood Area.�    To Manage, Support and develop the Housing Standards and Private sector Licensing Teams.�    To ensure that the housing standards service is delivered smoothly and efficiently in line with policies and procedures.�    To deal with complex cases and complaints about housing standards.�    To work in partnership with internal and external services and agencies to�    support the delivery of the service and related policies, strategies, action plans and initiatives.�    Delivery of an effective and appropriate service to all service users, fairly and without discrimination.Main Duties and Responsibilities1.    Responsible for the day to day running of the Housing Standards service including processing and responding to complaints and enquiries about housing standards and disrepair in the private sector. Including oversight of standards on mobile home and caravan sites.2.    Responsible for the day-to-day management of the Housing Standards Team, including training, guidance, coaching, mentoring, support, and motivation, identifying development needs, and encouraging strong team and cross-team working.3.    Responsible for the day to day running and delivery of the private sector housing licensing schemes including mandatory, selective and additional licensing.4.    Responsible for the day-to-day management of the private sector Housing Licensing Team, including training, guidance, coaching, mentoring, support, and motivation, identifying development needs, and encouraging strong team and cross-team working.5.    Ensure service standards and performance targets are achieved through regular performance monitoring, collation and timely submission of performance reports and returns, and assist in the identification and implementation of corrective actions.6.    Ensure quality and value for money in service delivery, by obtaining feedback from customers, partners, and staff, benchmarking services, and identifying best practice, and assist in the identification and implementation of service improvements.7.    Develop, review, and implement procedure guides to support effective, efficient, and consistent service provision, in line with local and national policies and legislation.8.    Represent the service at internal and external meetings, working groups and case conferences.9.    Work in partnership with other agencies and individuals in the public and private sectors including tenants groups, residents groups, support agencies, letting agents, landlord groups, landlord accreditation schemes, student accommodation providers and Universities, landlords and tenants.10.    Be a caseholder for and resolve complex complaints from tenants in the private sector as well as support the team to resolve difficult complaints.11.    Assist the private Sector Housing Manager with the monitoring of relevant budgets, ensuring that expenditure is within approved limits and value for money is achieved.12.    Ensure the delivery of fair and equal services to all customers, in line with Council policies.13.    The postholder will be required to undertake such other duties commensurate with the grade, and / or hours of work, as may be reasonably be required of you, at your main place of work and at any other of the Council�s establishments.14.    Responsible for protecting and managing information securely, and reporting breaches or suspected information security breaches, in line with Council policies. Essential    DesirableQualifications        Level 4 certificate or equivalent in Housing, Environmental Health or a related subject.    ?    Certified member of the Chartered Institute of Housing.        ?Certificate in Housing Health and Safety Rating System competency        ?Or        Demonstrable experience identified within the section below.    ?    Experience        Significant experience of delivering Housing Standards and Housing Licensing Services.    ?    Experience of resolving complex housing disrepair issues in the privately sector.    ?    Experience of taking enforcement action relevant to Housing standards, including working in partnership with legal services to prepare court documents.        ?Experience of completing inspections in line with the HHSRS (Housing Health and Safety Rating System) guidelines.    ?    Experience of providing advice and support to landlords in the private sector.    ?    Experience of managing staff.        ?Experience of managing and improving performance.    ?    Experience of managing and resolving customer complaints.    ?    Experience of managing budgets.         ?Experience of partnership working across the public and private sector.     ?    Experience of working with individuals and organisations with conflicting priorities to reach a common goal.    ?    Experience of using a range of IT systems and Software.    ?    Skills / Knowledge        The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in understandable spoken English is a requirement of the post.    ?    Knowledge and understanding of the Housing Act 2004, ideally through practical application.     ?    Knowledge and understanding of relevant policy developments and legislation.    ?    Ability to use own initiative, make decisions and resolve problems with minimal supervision.    ?    Ability to prioritise workloads to meet conflicting deadlines and achieve a range of performance targets.    ?    Ability to demonstrate a broad range of management and leadership competencies, including supporting, developing, coaching, and mentoring.    ?    Ability to develop, review and implement effective procedures.    ?    Ability to research and identify best practice and embed into working practices.    ?    Interpersonal Skills        Ability to communicate effectively with customers with differing needs, colleagues at different levels and elected members.    ?    Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with partner agencies.    ?    Other requirements        May be required to be available for meetings outside of normal office hours.    ?    Ability to hybrid work and to carry out on site visits.    ?    An understanding of, and commitment to equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.    ?    Must be able to perform all the duties and tasks of the job with reasonable adjustments, where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010.    

Job Category: Interims

Job location: Plough Lane, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR4 0LE, Herefordshire Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £26.06 per hour

Business Mileage: 45p per mile 

 Hybrid working

Do you have a can-do attitude? Are you committed to delivering customer-focussed services? Are you an inspirational leader with a background in Public Rights of Way? If the answer to each of these questions is yes, we’d like to hear from you!

Herefordshire Council is seeking to appoint an Interim Principal Public Rights of Way Officer who will act as the professional lead for all Public Rights of Way related matters across the authority. You will be responsible for the management of the Public Rights of Way team, and in doing so, developing, and implementing strategies, processes, and policies to provide excellent Public Rights of Way services and will collaborate with various stakeholders, including Cabinet, other elected members and senior managers to enhance the network, ensuring they are accessible and well maintained.

The role will be hybrid working with typically one day in person on Tuesdays, however there may be requirements for additional days where site visits are needed. 

Job Category: Housing

Job location: Civic Campus, Euclid Street, Swindon, SN1 2JG,

Swindon Borough Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £13.70 per hour

Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00. Hybrid role, 4 days in office.

Job Category: Social Care Qualified

Job location: 31 Chester Street, Wrexham, Wrexham Principal Area, LL13 8BG, Wrexham County Borough Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £30.50 per hour

Job description

The All Age Disability Team provide intervention and support to Children and Adults of any age who may have a diagnosed Learning Disability, Severe Physical Disability and Multiple Disabilities with complex needs. 

We have an exciting opportunity for experienced Social Workers to join an innovative and supportive team. The team works with Children and Adults; the current vacancy is within the children's element of the team.  

The successful candidates will need to a registered social worker and contribute to the team’s multi-agency approach to providing a seamless health, social care and well-being service for individuals with disabilities of all ages, their families and carers. 

Job Category: Admin & Clerical

Job location: Priory House, Monks Walk, Chicksands, Shefford, Central Bedfordshire, SG17 5TQ, 

Central Bedfordshire Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £16.90 per hour

Job description

Driving Licence is desirable. 

Working within a team delivering an effective and responsive service, ensuring our senior leadership team (Director level) have the day to day support they need. 

Candidate must have excellent organisation, interpersonal and communication skills and be an expert in prioritising and managing busy schedules and planning proactively. 

Day to day - may involve diary management, fielding calls, minuting meetings, liaising with colleagues, partners and residents as well as the Council's elected members and MP's. Ideally need to have experience in a similar role supporting a senior leadership team. Knowledge of Local Government or working in a political environment would also be advantageous but not essential.

Regular travel to and working from Priory House, Shefford is required. This is inline with business need but likely to be at least twice a week.

£32,587 per annum, pro rata. (£16.90 per hour) -

please note this is the rate for someone choosing to be paid LTD / Umbrella or PAYE it won't be exceeded as an hourly rate.

Job Category :Social Care - Unqualified

Location : Enfield Civic Centre, Enfield Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £17.00

To enable customers to communicate with the Council and access services and information through a range of IT solutions across all channels (web, telephone, face to face, correspondence, mobile, sms text messaging and email).  To use judgement and decision making skills to assess customers for eligibility for services, funding, benefits, concessions etc.  Assessing risk to elderly and/or vulnerable service users and identification and allocation of appropriate resources to meet customer needs and requirements.

Post is to answer 1001 ASC enquiry telephone line and undertake initial information gathering on referrals.

Key Accountabilities:

1. To maintain a clear understanding of the objectives, direction and development of the service area to meet changing needs, with particular emphasis on customer relations, continuous service improvement and ensuring that a positive image of the Council is portrayed at all times.
2. To contribute towards the development of a culture within the service which is customer focussed, committed to ensuring value for money and to provide a high standard of customer service, health and safety and the Council’s core values.
3. To ensure that schemes and targets comply with relevant technical/legal/legislative/statute requirements/codes of practice, government agencies, DDA and Health and Safety legislation.
4. To attend as a representative of the Council London-wide groups or bodies for sharing of best practice and disseminate information for future development of services.
5. Using a range of multiple communication methods in all forms of contact with customers including telephone (inbound/outbound, internet, face to face, sms text messaging, email, face to face and mobile channels).
6. To respond to customer needs through organisational learning through implementing new practices and procedures as required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES (You are not restricted to 2 criteria for each category)

Skills and Competencies 

(In this section you should list between 4 and a maximum of 8 essential recruitment and selection criteria and 2 desirable criteria)

Essential:

1.         Ability to communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing, negotiating and the use of IT

2.         Ability to work using own initiative as part of a team while managing workload efficiently, prioritising work and adopting a flexible approach to changing and competing demands

3.         Ability to implement and monitor quality standards

4.         Ability to resolve advanced or escalated problems quickly and effectively providing customer satisfaction whilst understanding the impact of those decisions on the organisation

Desirable:

1.         Trusted assessor (ability to assess for and recognise the need for simple items of enabling equipment) 

Experience and Knowledge 

1.         Experience of working in a health or social care setting with a range of adults with different levels of needs

2.         Basic knowledge of relevant legislation, policies and guidance that underpin the service

3.         Knowledge of resources to support the provision of services and to promote independence (e.g. Telecare, equipment and other interventions)

4.         In-depth knowledge of the services provided by the Health and Social Care directorate and a broad understanding of current issues

Essential Qualification(s) 

1.  

2.  

Other Special Requirements

1.         Able to travel around the borough independently to access service users’ homes and other office premises

2.         Access to a vehicle and clean driving licence is preferable

3.         Able and willing to be flexible and responsive in relation to working times, patterns, location.  (extended working hours will apply)

4.         Ability to adapt to new ways of working, new IT and pursue personal development opportunities whilst maintaining high personal standards of performance and conduct

Job Category: Technical

Job location:  Flint House, Church Street, Flint, Flintshire, CH6 5BD, Flintshire County Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £17.12 per hour

Job description

Time served, fully qualified electrician, able to produce a high standard of work in both tenanted and void properties and have experience within social housing. A wide knowledge base is essential and the candidate will need to have excellent testing and diagnostic skills and able to trace and rectify faults within domestic properties including repairs to various types of central heating systems

Job Category: Social Care Qualified

Job location:  Musgrove Park, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5DA, Somerset Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £32.64 per hour

Job description

Advanced Practitioner to support the social care team within an acute hospital working to an intermediate care model 

Job Category: Social Care Qualified

Job location: County Hall, Freemans Way, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, SA61 1TP, Pembrokeshire County Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £28.05 per hour 

Job descriptionThe role will play an essential role in achieving good outcomes for Pembrokeshire's looked after and accommodated children through providing a high standard quality assurance and statutory reviewing service.  As IRO you will have responsibility for delivering the statutory reviewing function for young people looked after by the Local Authority, ensuring plans for all children are appropriate, timely and high quality with the voice of the child at the centre.As Child Protection Chair, you will be responsible for chairing multi agency child protection conferences, ensuring children living in high risk situations are protected and their needs are met. 

    In Pembrokeshire, we pride ourselves on the quality of our prevention services which have supported many children to remain within their own families.  The success of this has meant that our overall looked after population and child protection register is below the national average, ensuring manageable caseloads.  We offer a flexible service to families via a hybrid model using a mix of face to face and Microsoft Teams for meetings. 

Job Category : nterims

Location : Guildhall 2, Royal Borough of Kingston

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £472.97

Role‌ ‌ purpose‌

Provide‌ ‌ leadership‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ Development‌ ‌ Management‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ Enforcement‌ ‌ functions‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ Council‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ make‌ ‌ a‌ ‌ significant‌ ‌ contribution‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ positive‌

growth‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ regeneration‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ Borough‌ ‌ through‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ innovative‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ practical‌ ‌ application‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ development‌ ‌ management‌ ‌ skills.‌ ‌ To‌ ‌ ensure‌ ‌ that‌

growth‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ regeneration‌ ‌ in‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ Borough‌ ‌ is‌ ‌ delivered‌ ‌ in‌ ‌ line‌ ‌ with‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ Council’s‌ ‌ Local‌ ‌ Plan‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ associated‌ ‌ documents.‌

The‌ ‌ role‌ ‌ reports‌ ‌ directly‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ Assistant‌ ‌ Director,‌ ‌ Strategic‌ ‌ Planning‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ Infrastructure,‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ is‌ ‌ responsible‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ Lead‌ ‌ Officer,‌ ‌ Development‌

Management,‌ ‌ Lead‌ ‌ Officer,‌ ‌ Planning‌ ‌ Delivery‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ Lead‌ ‌ Officer,‌ ‌ Planning‌ ‌ Enforcement.‌

Key‌ ‌ activities‌

Corporate‌ ‌ Leadership‌

● Responsible‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ setting‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ strategic‌ ‌ direction‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ tactical‌ ‌ operation‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ your‌ ‌ service.‌

● Responsible‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ producing‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ delivering‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ service‌ ‌ plan‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ your‌ ‌ service‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ monitoring‌ ‌ its‌ ‌ delivery‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ align‌ ‌ with‌ ‌ both‌ ‌ corporate‌ ‌ and‌

directorate‌ ‌ aims‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ priorities.‌

● Responsible‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ establishing,‌ ‌ developing‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ keeping‌ ‌ under‌ ‌ review‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ structures,‌ ‌ procedures‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ working‌ ‌ methods‌ ‌ for‌ ‌ your‌ ‌ service‌ ‌ to‌

ensure‌ ‌ an‌ ‌ integrated,‌ ‌ effective‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ efficient‌ ‌ approach‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ delivery‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ services‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ maximise‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ use‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ new‌ ‌ technology‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ both‌

improve‌ ‌ services‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ generate‌ ‌ efficiency‌ ‌ savings.‌


The‌ ‌ person‌

In‌ ‌ order‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ successfully‌ ‌ deliver‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ responsibilities‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ role,‌ ‌ you‌ ‌ will‌ ‌ need‌ ‌ to:
‌

● Have‌ ‌ relevant‌ ‌ degree‌ ‌ level‌ ‌ qualifications‌ ‌ in‌ ‌ Town‌ ‌ Planning‌ ‌ (or‌ ‌ related‌ ‌ built‌ ‌ environment‌ ‌ discipline)‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ hold‌ ‌ chartered‌ ‌ membership‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ the‌

Royal‌ ‌ Town‌ ‌ Planning‌ ‌ Institute‌ ‌ (RTPI),‌ ‌ or‌ ‌ be‌ ‌ able‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ demonstrate‌ ‌ suitable‌ ‌ post‌ ‌ qualification‌ ‌ experience‌ ‌ to‌ ‌ meet‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ eligibility‌ ‌ requirements‌

for‌ ‌ chartered‌ ‌ membership.‌

● Have‌ ‌ significant‌ ‌ experience‌ ‌ in‌ ‌ successfully‌ ‌ assessing‌ ‌ and‌ ‌ advising‌ ‌ on‌ ‌ planning‌ ‌ applications.‌

● Evidence‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ management‌ ‌ training‌ ‌ or‌ ‌ a‌ ‌ management‌ ‌ qualification‌ ‌ (eg‌ ‌ Certificate,‌ ‌ Diploma‌ ‌ or‌ ‌ MBA)‌ ‌ would‌ ‌ be‌ ‌ considered‌ ‌ desirable.‌

● Comprehensive‌ ‌ understanding‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ planning‌ ‌ legislation‌ ‌ &‌ ‌ good‌ ‌ understanding‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ related‌ ‌ legislation‌ ‌ including‌ ‌ local‌ ‌ government‌ ‌ legislation.
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● High‌ ‌ level‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ political‌ ‌ awareness‌ ‌ &‌ ‌ comprehensive‌ ‌ knowledge‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ the‌ ‌ operation‌ ‌ of‌ ‌ local‌ ‌ government.‌

Job Category : Social and Healthcare Unqualified

Location : WISH, Nottingham Community Housing Association

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00
Salary: £13.76

South Derbyshire

Car user

female

Domestic Abuse experience

level 3 childcare qualification

Main responsibilities

Organise, plan and supervise a programme of activities for children of all ages (0 – 16).

Provide parents and children with appropriate practical and emotional support.

Formulate, implement, review and evaluate individual support plans; ensuring support is delivered in accordance with NCHA’s principles and values.

Develop and promote internal and external tenant support networks.

Motivate and develop team members to be involved with the children’s service you will provide.
Evaluate and monitor volunteer performance.

Identify training and development needs related to the children’s service for colleagues and ensure they follow NCHA’s procedures.

Maintain accurate children’s records and appropriate administrative systems.

Participate in the development and implementation of quality systems for the children’s service and in budget decisions.  

Maintain a healthy and safe physical environment for tenants, their children and colleagues.

Ensure compliance with Health and Safety policy and procedures; carrying out and reviewing risk assessments for children and play activities.

Attend safeguarding/child in need meetings where applicable.

About the person (criteria used to shortlist applications)

Knowledge      

Qualified to, or working towards Level III NVQ in Childcare/ Play or an NNEB or a relevant qualification at an equivalent level.

Current knowledge of child protection legislation, Social Services procedures and good practice guidance in relation to children.

Demonstrable knowledge of issues relevant to tenant group.

Skills and experience

            Demonstrable experience of working in a childcare or play work environment, including supervisory experience.

Demonstrable ability to operate effectively at supervisory level.

Numerate and literate with basic IT skills.

Personal qualities,

 values and behaviours

            Understanding of the needs of people from diverse social/cultural/racial backgrounds.

Willingness to promote and adhere to the CLEAR values of NCHA.

Job Category : Housing

Location : Edmonton Green Library, Enfield Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £22.55

The Initial Assessment Team Service was established to help applicants who are threatened with homelessness or homeless to sustain their present accommodation or move into suitable private rented accommodation. The Front Door Team Service will also work collaboratively with partners to improve resilience and housing sustainment, under Enfield’s Early Help strategy.

The Initial Assessment Team will provide expert advice, work closely and collaboratively with partners to prevent, or delay homelessness wherever possible, to stop people ending up in our temporary accommodation or on the streets.

The Homeless Housing Coordinator will sit within the Initial Assessment Team , working closely within the service area to prevent homelessness.

You must have expert knowledge of carrying out an initial homelessness assessment,welfare benefits, homelessness reduction act, housing and homelessness policy and case law, legislation and practice, Courts, possession orders & evictions as well as specialist knowledge on homelessness decision making. You should also have knowledge of safeguarding vulnerable adults and children.

Job Category: Interims
Job location: Civic Campus, Euclid Street, Swindon, SN1 2JG, Swindon Borough Council

Hours per week: 37

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £43.53 per hour

Purpose:
Working as part of the Project & Programme Delivery Team, this role has lead responsibility for undertaking the Project Manager role on Council’s key strategic and complex transport and highways projects, ensuring that each project delivers the predicted benefits on time and within budget, through established project management processes, generating exceptional value for the Council.
Manage a portfolio of bespoke projects each with a value of up to £30m, including but not limited to capital delivery, revenue grant projects and major bids. Managing SBC interface and response to major infrastructure projects delivered by other parties (e.g. statutory providers)
Assign and oversee elements of project work to a direct report(s), and the matrix management of specialists in specific technical projects.
Identify and suggest improvements to ways of working, to infrastructure and to processes in order to feedback on what works, what doesn’t and what should be done in the future to ensure that Swindon delivers consistently excellent advice and services to the community.
Excellent internal and external communication skills will be required to provide advice and technical guidance within specific areas of specialism, managing streams of activities and using expertise in a specific technical area to deliver outputs, liaising with a number of stakeholders to deliver required outputs, including statutory bodies, key consultees, Elected Members and the public.
The role holder will be expected to translate technical and complex language into documentation (e.g. contracts, briefs, reports and drawings) that can be easily understood by a non-technical audience.

Accountabilities:
• Develop, prepare and manage project documentation for multi-disciplinary in-house and partner project teams, including the development of project briefs and business cases, project plans, forward planning strategic risk registers, issue logs and budget management tools.
• Ensure all project change control processes are initiated, agreed and implemented. Assess the financial operational and political impact of any changes to projects and propose solutions and mitigation.
• Dynamic management project risks via instigation of appropriate interventions and mitigations where achievement of project delivery is at risk.
• Ownership and accountability of the project programme to identify critical paths and resolve problems to ensure milestones are achieved.
• Identify, provide technical advice, manage and administer NEC3 / NEC4 contracts within the NEC suite of contracts to include Term Service, Professional Services and Engineering Construction.
• Prepare documentation for the procurement of goods, services and works using NEC3 / NEC4 Term Service, Professional Service and Engineering Construction Contracts.
• Procure contracts to include the advertising of contracts, management and coordination of the Council’s Gateway process, responding to tender clarifications, post tender analysis of submitted documentation and contract award / appointment following the sealing of contract.
• Manage, and where needed, lead on Contract Management of the Principal Contractor and Principal Designer
• Supervise and guide a team of external technical specialists and / or oversee the work of external contractors, to ensure all technical project activity and on-going workloads are delivered effectively, safely, accurately, on time and within budget.
• Establish, monitor and report on project Key Performance Indictors (KPIs)
• Manage and co-ordinate projects based on established project management principles.
• Prepare, monitor and report project updates (written and verbal) including recommendations and decisions to project boards, the Cabinet Member and / or committees, as required.
• Act as a single point of contact for all stakeholders, including external agencies, concerning the progress of projects, and handling of communications upstream and downstream
• Manage and control significant service or project budgets and, in certain cases, take responsibility for developing income-generating services.
• Undertake post project analysis and sharing of lessons learned with wider department colleagues to ensure improvement across SBC and best practice.
• Keep abreast of activities happening across the wider department or Council, with an understanding of how the activities of this role will affect other areas.
• Build strong and positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders and colleagues, to deliver expert technical advice and guidance where necessary and appropriate.
• Represent the Council as subject matter experts with customers, colleagues and external agencies.
• Provide technical advice to ensure all projects are carried out in accordance with SBC, HSE and CDM 2015 health, safety and environmental regulations and procedures.
• Take part in formal communications and provide evidence-based advice and challenge across different levels of the business, including senior management and stakeholders, to influence behaviour and persuade them to think and act differently.
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• Deputise for the Senior Project Manager / Programme Manager in their absence on day-to day matters arising and make key decisions, as appropriate, taking of their accountabilities
• Ensure projects achieve value for money, comply with current standards and promote innovation and best practice.
• Undertake site visits to ensure project progress and all relevant standards are maintained.
• Develop, co-ordinate and manage public consultation and public relations concerning projects.
• Any other duties and / or accountabilities commensurate with the roles seniority to meet the needs of residents, through the application of relevant knowledge, skills and experience within the specialism of the role.

Supplementary Accountabilities

Managerial
• Manage, lead and motivate a team of staff including APMs, specialist technical services, consultants, designers and site supervisors, whilst maintaining a highly competent, creative and participative culture through visibly effective leadership, the promotion of high-quality standards and the development of high-performance teams.
• Input into business continuity planning; manage budgets and contracts effectively and make the best use of resources to meet service requirements internally and request external BCP from contractors to ensure coordination and implementation.
• Provide effective planning for the service over the medium term and input into the wider plan.
• Provide effective management of a team (professional competence of team, performance and accuracy, PDR completion, turnover and attendance etc.).
• Provide effective resource and budget management.

Professional
• Provide specialist technical services and advice to particular areas of the Council, often ensuring that they bring internal best practice from the marketplace.
• Provide accurate technical and specialist advice.
• Input into new ways of working.
• Keep up-to-date with changes in the external environment and share best practice and inputs into service planning. Context and Dimensions: Financial responsibilities: This role has direct budget accountability of up to £100k spend approval and management of a portfolio of bespoke project costs each up to £30m.

Management responsibilities: This role has management/supervisory responsibilities of up to 3 direct reports. 

Values and Behaviours:
We strive to underpin our culture through strong management and authentic leadership, this means getting the management basics right, and ensuring what we commit to individually and collectively, we own and demonstrate accountability aiming to get things right first time. Building on this we also expect everyone at SBC to demonstrative and live our organisational values and behaviours, this mean in our work we are:
Connected: We put Swindon and its people at the heart of everything we do.
We display a communication and behaviour style that promotes a positive Council identity in connecting with residents, customers, colleagues and other stakeholders ensuring a partnership approach to delivering our vision. Always asking, “is what I am doing in the best interests of Swindon and its people,”?
Resilient: We are forward thinking and work smart
We seek to identify where things can be improved, ensuring this learning is embedded, evaluated and built upon through a strong approach to continuous organisational development.
Brave: We respect and work together with our colleagues and customers to achieve success
We act in an emotionally intelligent way, setting positive examples around accountability, risk and governance. This will be delivered through developing ourselves and our teams to achieve the highest possible levels of productivity and performance.

Job Category: Social Care Non-Qualified
Job location: Churchill Court, 2 Westmoreland Road, Bromley, Kent, BR1 1AS , Bromley Council

Hours per week: 36

Start date: Immediate start

Salary: £15.54 per hour

Job description

To work in the office 3 days per week and from home 2 days.

1.   To help organise and set up Transfer Panel Meetings as requested and to keep records of future Panels along with other information as required.

1.   To attend and take accurate minutes at strategy discussion meetings. 

2.   To type the minutes within set timescales and disseminate to the participants in line with Children’s Safeguarding Board procedures.

3.   Liaise with the Business Support Manager, Performance Management Team, other internal divisions and departments.  Confidence to interact in a multi-agency setting (i.e. Police, Schools, Health Professionals etc).

4.   Maintenance of electronic records and systems ensuring t0068at accurate and appropriate information is available to Managers when required.

5.   Responsible for the accurate input of data onto Liquid Logic  including scanning via the document management tool . Assist in the extraction and reporting of information from both computerised and manual systems.