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All Medway Council staff can access an additional day’s paid leave to undertake a volunteering activity which supports climate change.  </p><p><strong>Our organisation: </strong></p><p>Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.</p><p>Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.</p><p>We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.</p><p>Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in. </p><p><strong>Important Information- </strong></p><p><strong>Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile</strong></p><p><strong>Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement</strong></p><p>Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. 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Further details are available here: - https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ </li>\n</ul><p>We're committed to making Medway carbon neutral by 2050. We have developed an action plan to ensure we play our part in addressing the climate emergency.  Our declaration fits into our Council Plan priority of making Medway a place to be proud of. The main outcome being a 'clean and green environment'. All Medway Council staff can access an additional day’s paid leave to undertake a volunteering activity which supports climate change.  </p><p><strong>Our organisation: </strong></p><p>Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.</p><p>Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.</p><p>We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.</p><p>Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in. </p><p><strong>Important Information- </strong></p><p><strong>Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile</strong></p><p><strong>Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement</strong></p><p>Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. 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You will work closely with individuals, their families, and other professionals, including Children’s Social Care, SEND and Housing to ensure a smooth and positive transition.   You will ensure the service is delivered using a strengths based, personalised approach and lead on agreed areas of quality assurance and audit activity – ensuring that multiple and complex sources of information (e.g. complaints, safeguarding adult reviews, audits etc.) are gathered, analysed, and used to direct quality improvement activity.   You will be responsible for the professional supervision and oversee a team of social care staff ensuring improvement activity with the service is driven by but not limited to training, coaching and mentoring, peer support workshops. You will provide oversight, professional advice and guidance to the team whilst maintaining your own complex case load. You will be required to work autonomously within the role, demonstrating expert and effective practice in complex situations managing higher levels of risk in a way that ensures the safeguarding and welfare of service users.   You will work within organisational policy and legislative requirements including The Care Act, Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act. You will research and develop practice guidance, training materials and best practice toolkits in line with local and national policy and ensure that these are understood and adopted operationally.   You will be required to develop good practice guidance and tools within a specialist area of the service ensuring learning is shared across all professionals to improve practice and achieve better outcome for our service users.   You will represent the local authority in a range of key meetings, panels and groups, ensuring follow up on agreed actions and work closely with colleagues within the council and external partners ensuring that person centred outcomes are met.</p><p>This role will also involve undertaking Mental Capacity Assessments, taking part in Best Interest meeting and complete Cop DOL applications and renewals as required.</p><p>You will also be expected to complete Section 42 Safeguarding Enquiries (Care Act 2014) and act as the role of Designated Safeguarding Officer.</p><p>You will also be required to consider alternative funding arrangements, with the ICB, including Continuing Healthcare and S117 aftercare.</p><p>In return we offer you: </p><ul>\n<li>Generous annual leave entitlement</li>\n<li>Generous local government pension scheme package</li>\n<li>Access to wider training and development qualifications</li>\n<li>Flexible working scheme</li>\n<li>Travel plan discounts</li>\n<li>Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker </li>\n<li>Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service</li>\n<li>Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers</li>\n<li>The Government has introduced new ways of supporting parents with childcare costs. Further details are available here: - https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/</li>\n</ul><p>We're committed to making Medway carbon neutral by 2050. We have developed an action plan to ensure we play our part in addressing the climate emergency.  Our declaration fits into our Council Plan priority of making Medway a place to be proud of. The main outcome being a 'clean and green environment'. All Medway Council staff can access an additional day’s paid leave to undertake a volunteering activity which supports climate change.  </p><p>Our organisation: </p><p>Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.</p><p>Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.</p><p>We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.</p><p>Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in. </p><p>If you would like to have an informal discussion with the recruiting manager, please e-mail  Kim Nicholas on kim.nicholas@medway.gov.uk or Laura Acheson on laura.acheson@medway.gov.uk.</p><p>Important Information- </p><p>Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile.</p><p>Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement </p><p>Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. 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These frameworks provide a mechanism for employees to take ownership of their development within their post and be rewarded accordingly. This means that the salary you will be offered will be at level A unless, based on an assessment against the CPF criteria, you demonstrate that you are meeting the criteria of level B or C.  There will be further opportunity once in post to progress from level A to B, and B to C.</p><p>When writing your application, it is important to ensure you identify your suitability against the requirements of the job profile, as this information will be used for shortlisting and may contribute to the CPF assessment. Your application may be rejected if the minimum required criteria is not met. Further information relating to the requirements for this role can be found in the CPF Guidance document attached.</p><p>The person specification of a job profile is split into three levels:    Level A details the essential criteria that all applicants must be able to demonstrate through their application and interview.</p><p>Level B details the developed competencies that an individual who is practised in this role would be able to demonstrate and will be a progression of knowledge, experience and skills from level A.</p><p>Level C requires the highest level of competence and applicants would need to fully meet and demonstrate all aspects of the job profile, including qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.</p><p>You can demonstrate knowledge, experience and skills to allow you to perform within this role.  You will identify, through application, how you meet the elements detailed within the person specification, at either Level A, B or C.    You will be supported to develop in your role through induction, probation and a supportive Performance Appraisal and Career Conversation. 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Do you have a strong desire to be part of a transformative journey that will shape the future of Havering’s community? If so, we invite you to join us in our mission to elevate our local authority's Children's Social Care Services, situated within our Starting Well Department.</p> <p>Following our recent inadequate Ofsted inspection, we are embarking on an improvement journey where we aim to re-establish and reinvigorate great practice across all our services delivered in Havering. As part of this journey, we are seeking dedicated and enthusiastic social care practitioners ready to make a meaningful difference, driven by a genuine desire to advocate for children, promote their well-being, and who are not afraid to take on the challenge of working for a local authority who have been inspected by Ofsted as inadequate.</p> <p>In return, we want to offer you the opportunity to develop your skills through our dedicated 10 days of learning a year offer and access to our very own Social Care Academy and Systemic offer. We are committed to creating an environment where every child receives the best possible support and care, and all staff are supported to thrive and excel in safe, supported, and nurturing environments.</p> <p>Our Senior leaders have worked on an improvement plan, and if you are ready to embrace this challenge and play a pivotal role in shaping our journey, we encourage you to apply.</p> <p>We look forward to welcoming individuals who share our vision and drive.</p> <p><strong>About the role </strong></p> <p>Team Managers are integral to our office. They empower, provide high support and challenge along with motivating our social workers so we can collectively achieve best outcomes for children, young people and their families. As the Team Manager you will be responsible for:</p> <p>Manage and oversee staff to ensure effective delivery of services to children, young people, and their families through high quality social work in line with standards of good practice, legislation, and guidance. Lead and monitor staff in ensuring robust recording of information on relevant systems and databases in line with standards set, whilst capturing and evidencing the voice of the child. Assist the Service Manager and Head of Service in planning and developing services for vulnerable children, young people, and their families, identifying needs and potential difficulties/challenges, escalating issues as appropriate. Effectively manage budgets and ensure services are cost effective. Produce reports and attend meetings/forums as required<br> <br> Ideally you will be a Team Manager with some experience of working within Safeguarding. </p> <p>If successful you will be:</p> <p>• Manage and oversee staff to ensure effective delivery of services to children, young people, and their families through high quality social work in line with standards of good practice, legislation, and guidance<br> • Lead and monitor staff in ensuring robust recording of information on relevant systems and databases in line with standards set, whilst capturing and evidencing the voice of the child<br> • Assist the Service Manager and Head of Service in planning and developing services for vulnerable children, young people, and their families, identifying needs and potential difficulties/challenges, escalating issues as appropriate   <br> • Effectively manage budgets and ensure services are cost effective <br> • Produce reports and attend meetings/forums as required <br>  </p> <p><strong>Please see </strong><strong>Job Profile</strong><strong> Here</strong></p> <p>We promote a <strong>hybrid model</strong> of working for our social care staff, with a flexible approach involving working from our town hall campus/hubs. In this role, you are expected to work from our town hall campus when required. In addition, we also encourage a flexible approach to team building opportunities (we love a catch up over a cuppa, breakfast or lunch) which often take place Face to Face in line with our model of practice.</p> <p>As one of the greenest boroughs in London, resourcefulness is in our nature. We don’t wait to be told, we take the initiative. We face the future head-on, embracing new challenges with open minds and fresh ideas. There’s lots of opportunities to progress here, and if you seize them we’ll support you all the way. Choose Havering and see the difference you’ll make to the people that live, work and learn here.</p> <p>From caring for those who need it most, to ensuring our highways and streets are safe, providing a roof over the heads of our residents, providing excellent customer service or, enhancing our digital services for staff and residents, there are so many ways you can make a positive influence here. And, whether you’re outdoorsy, people-focused or analytical, we have a role that’s right for you.</p> <p><strong>For an informal discussion about the post, please contact by email on </strong><strong>Lydia.bennet@havering.gov.uk</strong><strong> . This advert will close at 23:59 on the</strong> <strong>2nd March 2025</strong></p> <p>Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk on 01708 432770</p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p>We want everyone to choose Havering. 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By engaging  pupils in various sports and activities to support their health and wellbeing.</p> <p>This role is to lead on and further develop the education health and well being offer to pupils within schools as well as one to one coaching. The candidate is expected to work with, motivate and contribute to the development support plans for pupils, specifically those presenting with medical needs and / or risky behaviour on an outreach basis in schools and education provisions.</p> <p>Please view Job Profile here </p> <p><strong>For an informal discussion about the post, please contact </strong>Janet.James@havering.gov.uk</p> <p><strong>The closing date for the receipt of applications is 14/05/2025</strong>, however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.</p> <p>You will be notified if your application has been successful.  Interview date to be confirmed.</p> <p>Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk on 01708 432770.</p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p>We want everyone to choose Havering. When you apply for a job with us, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life, and so do our employees. Find out what it means to Choose Havering.</p> <p>The London Borough of Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.</p> <p> </p><p><strong>Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.</strong></p> <p><strong>We practice anonymised recruitment. 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Plus assistance in the coordination of all road and street works in an effective and efficient manner to deliver best value and ensure continuous improvement.</p> <p><strong>For an informal discussion about the post, please contact </strong><strong>Jack.Richardson@havering.gov.uk</strong><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>The closing date for the receipt of applications is 15th May 2025 </strong>however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.</p> <p>You will be notified if your application has been successful.  Interview date to be confirmed</p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p>We want everyone to choose Havering. When you apply for a job with us, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life, and so do our employees. Find out what it means to Choose Havering.</p> <p>The London Borough of Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.</p> <p><strong>Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.</strong></p> <p><strong>We practice anonymised recruitment. 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Community Engagement and Outreach:</strong> </p>\n\n <p>Lead community engagement and upskilling activities, including heritage education programmes, public consultations, and volunteer recruitment. </p>\n\n <p>Project manage a series of heritage conferences to engage local, regional and national stakeholders and contribute to sharing the learning from the project. </p>\n\n <p>Support the development of more inclusive and accessible engagement with heritage. </p>\n\n <p>Assist Havering’s heritage sector in better including children, young people, and those historically underrepresented within heritage engagement and representation, disseminating the learning from this practice and helping heritage organisations to better realise community and individual wellbeing benefits of heritage through active participation </p>\n\n <p><strong>3. Heritage Conservation and Promotion:</strong> </p>\n\n <p>Act as lead in ensuring appropriate approaches and projects are in place to monitor and address the needs of Havering’s Heritage at Risk register sites </p>\n\n <p>Contribute to the monitoring the condition of Havering’s heritage assets, developing conservation strategies in collaboration with relevant experts. </p>\n\n <p>Promote Havering’s heritage through various media, including social media, public events, and educational materials. </p>\n\n <p>Act as first point of contact on heritage strategic issues, providing guidance to council officers and members. </p>\n <p> <strong>4. Strategic Planning and Reporting:</strong> </p>\n <p>Develop Havering’s Heritage Strategy, ensuring it reflects the needs of the community and aligns with broader cultural goals. </p>\n <p>Work with Havering’s Local Plan team to help integrate cultural and heritage assessment planning into the Local Plan process, utilising innovative new methodology, and sharing the learning from this process widely with other local authorities. </p>\n <p>Contribute to ensuring the effective development of Havering London, the borough’s new cultural and place making organisation, ensuring heritage is best reflected within the work of the new organisation. </p>\n <p>Contribute to the evaluation of the “Havering Unearthed” project, ensuring the effective cross sector dissemination of the learning. </p>\n <p><strong>5. Fundraising:</strong> </p>\n <p>Develop and facilitate Havering’s relationship with strategic funders of heritage related activity, including Historic England, the National Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage, Greater London Authority etc, ensuring Havering plays an active role in regional and national heritage sector and aligns with and contributes to the strategic objectives of those funders </p>\n <p>Identify and secure external funding, preparing grant applications and managing funded projects in accordance with funding requirements, including helping secure the onward funding required to contribute this post beyond the initial two years </p>\n <p><strong>6. Health and Safety:</strong> </p>\n <p>Ensure that all heritage activities delivered by the role comply with health and safety regulations, particularly when managing sites in poor condition or during public events. </p>\n <p><strong>7. Employee Responsibilities:</strong> </p>\n <p>Attend council meetings, working groups, and external meetings as a representative of Havering Council and Havering London. </p>\n <p>Demonstrate a flexible approach to work, performing duties in line with the general responsibilities of the post and the needs of the service. </p>\n <p>To deliver the heritage related projects of the  ‘A Good Life’ programme aims in accordance with the conditions of third party grants  </p> <p><strong>For an informal discussion about the post, please contact </strong><strong>Lucy.Single@havering.gov.uk</strong><strong>  </strong></p> <p><strong>The closing date for the receipt of applications is 26th May  2025 </strong>however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.</p> <p>You will be notified if your application has been successful.  Interview date to be confirmed. </p> <p>Should you require any help or advice with your online application, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk on 01708 432770.</p> <p>Please view <strong>Job Profile</strong> here </p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p>We want everyone to choose Havering. 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Do you have a strong desire to be part of a transformative journey that will shape the future of Havering’s community? If so, we invite you to join us in our mission to elevate our local authority's Children's Social Care Services, situated within our Starting Well Department.</p> <p>Following our recent inadequate Ofsted inspection, we are embarking on an improvement journey where we aim to re-establish and reinvigorate great practice across all our services delivered in Havering. As part of this journey, we are seeking dedicated and enthusiastic social care practitioners ready to make a meaningful difference, driven by a genuine desire to advocate for children, promote their well-being, and who are not afraid to take on the challenge of working for a local authority who have been inspected by Ofsted as inadequate.</p> <p>In return, we want to offer you the opportunity to develop your skills through our dedicated 10 days of learning a year offer and access to our very own Social Care Academy and Systemic offer. We are committed to creating an environment where every child receives the best possible support and care, and all staff are supported to thrive and excel in safe, supported, and nurturing environments.</p> <p>Our Senior leaders have worked on an improvement plan, and if you are ready to embrace this challenge and play a pivotal role in shaping our journey, we encourage you to apply.</p> <p>We look forward to welcoming individuals who share our vision and drive.</p> <p><strong>About the role </strong></p> <p>The London Borough of Havering is looking to recruit Court Progression Manager (Children’s) to contribute to the delivery of an effective children’s social care service as part of a social work team, improving outcomes for children and young people, and manage caseloads dependent upon experience, grade of post and complexity of cases, utilising specialist knowledge for appropriate interventions, needs and risk assessments, care planning and child protection investigations.</p> <p>If successful in your application for the role of Court Progression Manager (Children’s), London Borough of Havering, you will/will be:</p> <ul>\n<li>The post holder reports to the Service Manager for Safeguarding </li> <li>The post holder will undertake other tasks to support service delivery, as identified and required by the Service Manager </li> <li>The post holder will be expected to work outside ‘normal’ office hours as required by their line manager, this will include providing out of hours senior management cover on a rota basis </li> <li>The post holder has responsibility for managing the legal budget </li> <li>This is specialist role, requiring expert knowledge and experience of the children’s social care legal framework..</li> </ul> <p><strong>Please see </strong><strong>Job Profile</strong> <strong>here</strong></p> <p>We promote a <strong>hybrid model</strong> of working for our social care staff, with a flexible approach involving working from our town hall campus/hubs. In this role, you are expected to work from our town hall campus when required. In addition, we also encourage a flexible approach to team building opportunities (we love a catch up over a cuppa, breakfast or lunch) which often take place Face to Face in line with our model of practice.</p> <p>As one of the greenest boroughs in London, resourcefulness is in our nature. We don’t wait to be told, we take the initiative. We face the future head-on, embracing new challenges with open minds and fresh ideas. There’s lots of opportunities to progress here, and if you seize them we’ll support you all the way. Choose Havering and see the difference you’ll make to the people that live, work and learn here.</p> <p>From caring for those who need it most, to ensuring our highways and streets are safe, providing a roof over the heads of our residents, providing excellent customer service or, enhancing our digital services for staff and residents, there are so many ways you can make a positive influence here. And, whether you’re outdoorsy, people-focused or analytical, we have a role that’s right for you.</p> <p><strong>For an informal discussion about the post, please contact by email on </strong><strong>lydia.bennet@havering.gov.uk</strong><strong> </strong>This advert will close at 23:59 on the <strong>9th March 2025.</strong></p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p>We want everyone to choose Havering. When you apply for a job with us, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life, and so do our employees.</p> <p>The London Borough of Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.</p> <p><strong>Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.</strong></p> <p><strong>We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.</strong></p>\n\n <img src=\"https://ars2.equest.com/?response_id=803530abc398339d9e931f3ee30bef47&view\" alt=\" \" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"59821.5","publishDate":"2025-04-29T15:40:04.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-06-08T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/d427a0be-cc04-4965-b15e-73c7e930b9e7.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"e8f34cc6-90c6-4a1a-b6b1-e5311ec5920a","title":"Adoption Recruitment and Assessment Social Worker","employer":"London Borough of Havering","department":"","location":"Essex","locationType":3,"description":"<p><strong>Grade 7/8- £42,324- £51,522pa-  12  x Month Fixed Term Contract/Secondment Opportunity.</strong></p> <p>Adopt London East is looking for an experienced social worker to join the Recruitment & Assessment Team.</p> <p>For this role, you will need excellent communication skills and a well rounded knowledge of key influential factors associated to adoption including attachment theory, developmental trauma and loss/grief. </p> <p>Applicants must have experience of working within a children's social work team, alongside experience of completing complex and analytical assessments.  </p> <p>As a recruitment & Assessment social worker, it is essential that you are able to work in partnership with all those involved in the adoption and care planning process for children and families.  This includes family finding social Workers, Adoption Support Social Workers, children’s social work colleagues, prospective adopters, foster carers and multi-agency partners. </p> <p><strong>Main duties</strong></p> <ul>\n<li>Recruiting, preparing and assessing prospective adopters.</li> <li>Linking and matching approved adopters with children.</li> <li>Supporting prospective adopters following the placement of children & up until the point an Adoption Order is granted. </li> <li>Preparing reports for adoption panel and court.</li> <li>Presenting training and events to prospective adopters</li> <li>Assessing non-agency adopters (previously step-parent approvals).</li> </ul> <p><strong>You will need: </strong></p> <ul>\n<li>A Social Work Qualification (degree or equivalent) and current registration with Social Work England (this is an essential requirement).</li> <li>Adoption Experience is a preference, however, it is essential that applicants can evidence experience of completing complex assessments associated to children and families.  </li> <li>An understanding of early life experiences such as trauma or abuse and the impact they can have on children and young people throughout their lives.</li> <li>The ability to analyse complex information to make recommendations and informed decisions.</li> <li>The ability to complete comprehensive assessments in a timely manner.</li> <li>The ability to work both as part of a team, sharing knowledge and managing cases.</li> <li>The ability to use your own initiative and work independently.</li> <li>Experience of managing your own caseload and working to specific deadlines.</li> <li>To be competent in the use of IT and case management systems.</li> <li>The ability to maintain case recordings on appropriate platforms.  </li> </ul> <p>Please view<strong> Job Profile</strong> here</p> <p><strong>For an informal discussion about the post, please contact by email </strong><strong>Luke.Scillitoe@havering.gov.uk</strong><strong>. This advert will close at 23:59 on the Sunday 11th May 2025 with short listing taking place on Monday 12th May 2025.  </strong><br>  </p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p>We want everyone to choose Havering. When you apply for a job with us, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life, and so do our employees. Find out what it means to Choose Havering.</p> <p>The London Borough of Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. 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The team is on the hunt for an experienced Senior Software Engineer, offering a hybrid working opportunity, where you will innovate with 'Microsoft Dynamics 365', Power Platform, and C# .NET to create cutting-edge solutions whilst leading a team of Software Engineers. </strong></p><p><strong>Job Purpose</strong></p><p> </p><p>If you are passionate about leading the design, delivery, and continuous optimisation of software applications and strive to create secure, accessible, and financially sustainable solutions that cater to users with varying digital skills and confidence levels, we invite you to be a part of our team at London Borough of Havering. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our software products, contributing to our engineering practices, and ensuring that our applications deliver significant value to users. Your contributions will align with the Council's values of security, financial prudence, transparency, inclusion, and sustainability. Join our multidisciplinary team and actively participate in Council-wide initiatives to meet the needs of Havering residents and businesses.</p><p><strong>Role Accountability</strong></p><p> </p><p>The appointed candidate will be responsible for the detailed architecture, design, coding, testing, maintenance, and improvement of innovative software solutions. You will employ automated tools to create high-performing, accessible, and user-friendly designs while ensuring they are cost-effective and error-free. Your role will involve understanding user needs, simplifying solutions, and accurately estimating efforts.</p><p>Participate in evaluations and reviews of programming methods, tools, and standards, and champion IT policies to guarantee the security of information and systems. Engage in our community of practice to uphold standards and best practices. Embrace Agile methodology, fostering a dynamic environment that prioritises iterative methods and rapid delivery.</p><p>Contribute to the development and application of design standards, methods, and tools, ensuring all work is documented. Maintain specific procedures and security controls to protect business information systems. Identify, assess, and manage risks, coordinating actions to mitigate or eliminate them.</p><p>Enjoy the added responsibility of being a lead officer, supporting to motivate, and inspire your team, facilitating open dialogue about expectations, progress, performance, and development needs. 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The team is on the hunt for an experienced Software Engineer, offering a hybrid working opportunity, where you will innovate with 'Microsoft Dynamics 365', Power Platform, and C# .NET to create cutting-edge solutions! </strong></p><p><strong>Job Purpose</strong></p><p> </p><p>Join the team an experienced Software Engineer, where you will be at the forefront of designing, delivering, and continuously optimising software applications that are secure, accessible, and financially sustainable, meeting the diverse needs of our users. You will contribute to and improve software engineering practices and processes, while supporting and enhancing a suite of existing software products.</p><p>Understanding user needs for various software components, you will ensure the delivery of value, while upholding the Council's values for security, financial prudence, transparency, inclusion, and sustainability. Your collaboration within a multidisciplinary team will promote the sharing of expertise and create opportunities for continuous learning and development.</p><p>Additionally, you will actively contribute to Council-wide initiatives that align with our corporate objectives and address the needs of Havering residents and businesses. You will also ensure effective user support, including out-of-hours support on a rota basis.</p><p><strong>Role Accountability</strong></p><p> </p><p>As a Software Engineer, you will develop and improve software solutions using automated tooling to ensure high performance, accessibility, simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and error-free designs; understand user needs, estimate effort, and contribute to evaluations and reviews of methods and standards; ensure information security by enforcing IT policies; contribute to a community of practice and use Agile methodology for rapid delivery; develop and apply appropriate design standards, methods, and tools; apply security controls as per policy and risk assessments to maintain information confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and identify, assess, and manage risks continuously.</p><p><strong>The Experience You Will Bring</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> As an experienced Software Engineer, it is essential to have a degree or equivalent work-related attainment as well as experience with 'Microsoft Dynamics 365' development, Power Platform and Logic Apps development. </strong></p><p> </p><p>Additional skills and attributes required for this role include:</p><ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Programming/software development:</strong> you design, code, verify, test, document, amend, and refactor complex programs and integration software services, contribute to the selection of development methods and tools, apply standards for well-engineered outcomes, and lead reviews of your own and colleagues' work.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Systems and software lifecycle engineering:</strong> you elicit requirements for lifecycle practices and automation, prepare design options for methods, procedures, techniques, tools, and people, select lifecycle practices for software components and microservices, and deploy automation to ensure well-engineered and secure outcomes.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Systems integration and build:</strong> you provide technical expertise for configuring system components for testing, collaborate on and report integration plans, define and ensure the configuration of integration test environments, design and report integration tests, document system integration components, and recommend process and tool improvements.</li>\n<li>\n<strong>Solution architecture:</strong> you contribute to developing solution architectures in specific business or functional areas, evaluate alternative architectures considering cost and performance trade-offs, document significant decisions, produce specifications for cloud or on-premises components for detailed design, and support projects by aligning solutions with enterprise and security standards.</li>\n</ul><p> </p><p> </p><p>To find out more about this role, please email <a> sadie.orwell@essex.gov.uk </a> .</p><p> </p><p><strong> <em>Upon application, please be sure to include an example of experience of the essential platforms required - particularly 'Microsoft Dynamics 365' - within your supporting statement.</em> </strong></p><p> </p><p>London Borough of Havering. When you apply for a job with us, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. Our residents and service users come from all walks of life, and so do our employees. Find out what it means to Choose Havering.</p><p>The London Borough of Havering has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. 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A free staff car park is available on site.</p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><strong>We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date.  Please apply early to avoid disappointment.</strong></p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£27,969 per annum, increasing to £30,341 per annum following 12 months satisfactory performance","publishDate":"2025-04-29T08:55:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-05-13T22:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/09091859-7f59-45ad-92e6-4f4595f9d173.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"8953d6ad-ca8c-4dff-a951-0096429a760f","title":"Housing Assistant (Income)","employer":"Medway Council","department":"","location":"Gun Wharf","locationType":3,"description":"<p>We are currently recruiting for a Housing Assistant (Income) to provide a range of general administrative duties in order to support service delivery.</p><p>To act as the first point of contact for internal and external customers and provide a professional and welcoming environment at all times.</p><p>Liaise with stakeholders in a way that promotes the One Medway Council Plan and embeds our values and behaviours.</p><p><strong>Accountabilities and outcomes:</strong></p><p>To manage garage accounts, sub accounts, and recovery of former tenant arrears (using all available resources to trace former tenants in the pursuit of housing debt to the council and make use of debt recovery agencies as appropriate). </p><p>Responsible for the preparation of debt write-off reports in accordance with council policy.</p><p>To liaise with internal and external organisations and also support with complaint investigations and responses. </p><p>To assist with bulk communications with customers including mail-outs, bulk email and bulk text message campaigns.  </p><p>To assist with tenants Universal Credit housing costs rent verification on DWP Landlord Portal system when required.</p><p>To assist tenants with Housing Online (HOL) issues and provide support where necessary.</p><p>To provide good customer service by answering telephone calls and emails, resolve them at the point of contact if possible. For complex cases ensuring all details are made available to the Income and Arrears Officer and that cases are correctly recorded and prioritised.</p><p>To assist Income and Tenancy Officers in updating tenant’s details after Tenancy Audit completion.</p><p>At the discretion of the Head of Service, such other activities as may from time to time be agreed consistent with the nature of the job described above.</p><p><em>If you would like to have an informal discussion with the recruiting manager please e-mail Julie Fulgence on julie.fulgence@medway.gov.uk .</em></p><p><strong>In return we offer you: </strong></p><ul>\n<li>Generous annual leave entitlement</li>\n<li>Generous local government pension scheme package</li>\n<li>Access to wider training and development qualifications</li>\n<li>Flexible working scheme</li>\n<li>Travel plan discounts</li>\n<li>Car Benefit Scheme from Tusker </li>\n<li>Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service</li>\n<li>Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers</li>\n<li>The Government has introduced new ways of supporting parents with childcare costs. Further details are available here: - https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/ </li>\n</ul><p>We're committed to making Medway carbon neutral by 2050. We have developed an action plan to ensure we play our part in addressing the climate emergency.  Our declaration fits into our Council Plan priority of making Medway a place to be proud of. The main outcome being a 'clean and green environment'. All Medway Council staff can access an additional day’s paid leave to undertake a volunteering activity which supports climate change.  </p><p><strong>Our organisation: </strong></p><p>Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.</p><p>Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.</p><p>We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.</p><p>Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in. </p><p><strong>Important Information- </strong></p><p><strong>Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile</strong></p><p><strong>Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement</strong></p><p>Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, family commitments, sexual orientation, age, HIV status, religious or political beliefs, social class or trade union activity or irrelevant spent conviction. </p><p>For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online. </p><p>Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.   All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email. </p><p>Please visit http://www.mindfulemployer.net/ for information on how Medway Council put good practices in place to ensure employees and job applicants who declare mental health issues receive the right level of support. </p><p><em>We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.</em></p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"Range 2 - £24,464 per annum / pro rata","publishDate":"2025-04-28T23:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-05-13T22:55:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/091e1ffc-95fe-454a-b113-e57eaf17b1de.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"78fcdf2e-a381-42e1-8941-280e7abceb9a","title":"Community Care Assessor","employer":"London Borough of Havering","department":"","location":"Havering","locationType":3,"description":"<p><strong>Community Care Assessor  - Grade 6 - Scp 25-29 £38,058- £41,442 pa.</strong> </p> <p>The purpose of this role is to contribute to the delivery of an effective Adult social care service as part of a social care team, improving outcomes for People and Carers. To carry out high quality holistic assessments, using strengths based, person-centred, community focused, and multi-agency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships and to secure the best outcomes for people and carers. You must undertake the legal and statutory duties of the post as required by the Care Act. Have a good awareness and understanding of Mental Capacity Act, liberty protection safeguards, Mental Health Act and any other relevant legislation and be able to provide a person-centred service which focuses on asset based interventions to enable people to optimise and maximise their abilities, by using a strengths based approach.</p> <p>Duties Include:</p> <ul>\n<li>Contribute to the delivery of an effective Adult social care service as part of a social work team, improving outcomes for Adults and Carers.</li> <li>Manage caseloads requiring reviews, assessment of needs and/ risk assessments and support planning.  </li> <li>Carry out quality assessments, using person-centred, community focused, and multi-agency interventions to bring about positive change through developing effective relationships and to secure the best outcomes for service users and carers.</li> <li>An understanding to ensure that vulnerable adults are adequately protected in line with London Borough of Havering's Safeguarding Adults policy and procedures and relevant legislation.</li> </ul> <p> Please see Job description for more information:  Job Description</p> <p><strong>For an informal discussion about the post, please contact </strong><strong>jananee.ramiah@havering.gov.uk</strong><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>The closing date for the receipt of applications is 4th May 2025, however interest in this job may be high and we therefore reserve the right to close the vacancy early.</strong></p> <p><strong>You will be notified if your application has been successful</strong></p> <p><strong>Additional Information</strong></p> <p>We want everyone to choose Havering. 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