Total 11 job vacancies by Staffordshire County Council

We have a fantastic opportunity to lead our dedicated team in promoting sustainable waste management at our Household Waste Recycling Centres!

As a Household Waste Recycling Centre (HWRC) Team Leader you will:

• Be able to effectively lead and motivate a team to help maximise the quality and number of materials separated for recycling.
• Plan and organise the activities on site, organise staff responsibilities and be the face of Staffordshire County Council to on site visitors and, where required, deputise for the HWRC Supervisor.
• Be a great communicator and be able to demonstrate a positive and encouraging leadership approach.
• Have experience using IT systems and be confident using Microsoft office software.

Your day-to-day duties will vary, and may include the following:

• Helping the public use the site in a safe manner, adhering to all Health and Safety guidance.
• Being the accountable fire marshal and first aid trained responder on site.
• Providing friendly, informative and professional customer service.
• Protecting yourself and your team by promoting high standards of health and safety.
• Safely operating equipment and machinery and reporting any faults and issues.
• Working with commercial traders, providing advice and handling payments.
• Reporting unauthorised waste depositing and promoting environmental sustainability.
• Supporting other HWRC teams as part of the Staffordshire HWRC Network.

This role is based at our Stafford location.

You will have:

• A Certificate of technical competence in Hazardous Waste Transfer (Ideal, not essential to role)
• Experience of leading a team
• Working knowledge of health and safety legislation and operations
• A flexible approach to duties, willing to learn and be trained
• Good verbal and written communication skills – to facilitate inductions, training and communication with site staff, management, clients, contractors and the public
• Strong numerical and literacy skills and paperwork and recording skills
• An understanding of recycling and recyclable materials is an advantage
• Trained First Aider, or willing and capable of being trained
• A Full UK driving licence
• Experience in operating a above 10ton 360 wheeled excavator. ( or willing to learn)
• Experience in the operation of Household waste recycling centres (HWRC'S)
• Good attention to detail
• Willing to work weekends and Bank holidays

For more information, please contact Danny Wraxton at danny.wraxton@staffordshire.gov.uk

Potential interview date will be: Week commencing 2nd December 2024

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

It’s an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council.

Our vision is to help Staffordshire’s economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county.

Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.

We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into the quality of our roads. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.

As a member of the Highways Maintenance and Network Management team you will:

• act as the contract management lead for the commissioning of routine, reactive, cyclical and winter highway maintenance services.
• lead on the development of service (functional) specifications for Highway Maintenance.
• establish, develop and maintain relevant contacts and stakeholder relationships to enable effective regional working.
• Coach, mentor, empower and develop team members to ensure they deliver a customer focused, modern professional service, challenging work practices as required.

You’ll have proven experience in the management, delivery and commissioning of highway maintenance activities together with:

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification in a relevant discipline e.g. Civil Engineering
• Professional qualification at Incorporated Engineer level or knowledge/experience at equivalent level
• experience of procurement, contracts and performance management of providers.
• the ability to develop and maintain partnerships to support ongoing service delivery.

The interview date for this vacancy will be Thursday 28th November 2024.

For an informal chat about the role please contact David Walters, Head of Highway Maintenance & Network Management at: david.walters@staffordshire.gov.uk

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

Our Recruitment Process: We anonymise applications during shortlisting to ensure only relevant information is considered. Please complete your application fully, especially the supporting statement, to highlight what you’ll bring to the role.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

We are looking for an experienced social care professional who has a thorough understanding of adult social care and commissioning to take forward key projects within the County.

The post is based within the Older People and Physical Disability Commissioning Team, working as part of a team of five Commissioning Managers.

This post will lead on home and community care, with a particular focus on commissioning of Home Care and Market Sustainability. The post will also lead on Carers across older people and physical disabilities (OPPD) Commissioning.

You will:

• Develop and implement strategies and plans to deliver the Council's strategic objectives.
• Lead on developing future commissioning arrangements for home and community care.
• Develop innovation and service specific solutions to meet needs and improve outcomes which are co-produced with people and their carers/families.
• Manage and deliver projects to timescale and budget.
• Form and maintain positive working relationships with providers, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop opportunities for closer collaboration with commissioners in the NHS and other authorities.
• Learn from best practice both within the sector and outside and translating that into working practice.

What you’ll bring:

• You will be able to analyse data and determine priorities based on evidence and develop and produce documents written to a high standard.
• You will be a skilled and experienced commissioner who has a track record of engaging and shaping markets to improve outcomes for people who receive support.
• Have an understanding of the legislative requirements for adult social care, as well as practice implications, and through promoting strength-based approaches to adult social care support personalisation and achieve greater independence.
• Be an expert communicator and able to develop and sustain working relationships with internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Have a commitment to engagement and coproduction and experience of involving people who use services and their families/carers in the planning and development of services and policies.
• You will work at a strategic level but also have a sound understanding of adult social care operations and legislation.

Interviews will be held: 26 November and 5 December.

For further information about this role please contact Helen Trousdale Lead Commissioner helen.trousdale@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Are you passionate about Post 16 education and training?

We're seeking a highly motivated 16-18 Programme Manager to join the Skills and Employability Team.

You'll play a key role in developing learning and participation policy and strategy, to address the education and training needs of our 16-18 (up to 25 with SEND) population. You will support the development and raise awareness of our aspirations for the progression to employment of young people, particularly for vulnerable groups.

The post provides a varied workload which will include:

• The development and execution of strategies which enhance the learning offer for young people.
• Management of sustainable relationships with key partners and stakeholders in the learning and skills sector.
• Provision of expert advice to ensure cost-effective and appropriate support for Post 16 young people with SEND in FE and specialist provision.
• Design and lead on projects that maximise the opportunities and benefits of participating in education and training.
• Programme and performance management of delivery providers.

You will have:

• Qualification in education, training or SEND (e.g. trained assessor, teacher) or significant sector experience.
• Experience in project development and management, collaborating with various stakeholders to achieve results.
• Proven ability to manage and inspire a multidisciplinary team.
• An understanding of the current challenges facing local government in post-16 education and SEND
• Strong analytical skills with a keen attention to detail that can be demonstrated.

Interviews will take place week commencing 28th October 2024.

Don't feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Alison Matthews, Head of 16-18 Participation and Skills Email: alison.matthews@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of our residents across Staffordshire? Do you have the skills and dedication to lead a dynamic team in delivering high-quality social care services? If so, we want to hear from you!

The First Contact Team is at the forefront of engaging with the residents of Staffordshire. We carry out strengths-based, outcome-focused assessments via telephone and virtual technology. Our service also provides a single point of access for all age carers, offering information, advice, and guidance.

We conduct in-person assessments across the county, ensuring compliance with the Care Act 2014. Our goal is to promote independence, develop care and support plans, and work with our Brokerage teams to meet the social care needs of our community.

There will be a requirement for the post holder to participate in a weekend working rota.

As a Team Manager, you will:

• Provide day-to-day line management, professional, and operational leadership to Senior Social Workers, Social Workers, and non-registered social care staff.
• Lead quality practice and performance, supporting your team to understand, contribute to, and effect change.
• Act as a crucial link between your team and Service Leads across adult social care.
• Direct your team in delivering assessments, reviews, support planning, and case management.

You will have:

• A professional Social Work qualification (Dip SW, CQSW, CSS).
• Registration with Social Work England (SWE).
• Successful completion of or willingness to undertake training, including BIA, Practice Educator, or Approved Mental Health Practitioner.
• A management qualification or relevant experience.
• Excellent communication skills with staff and a diverse customer base, including the ability to engage with learning disabled and/or autistic adults and their carers.
• Proven analytical and critical thinking skills.
• The ability to support staff in high-quality, timely assessments, planning, monitoring, and review of individual cases, utilising the “Just enough support” ethos.
• Sound judgment skills in providing solutions on complex casework, appraising and responding to risk.

If you’re ready to take on this rewarding challenge, apply now and be a part of our mission to support and empower the community of Staffordshire!

Interviews will be held on the 3rd October 2024.

Don’t feel you meet all the requirements? We value transferable skills, experiences, and qualifications so consider applying anyway or for an informal chat about the role please contact Tammy Drinkwater Service Manager at: tammy.drinkwater@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Do you want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities? If so, this role could be for you!

As part of our commitment to SEND improvement we are seeking 4 passionate, motivated individuals to join our team of Quality Assurance Managers within the SEND Assessment and Planning Service.

The roles are fixed term until 31 August 2025 and are working across double district teams. Travel to other areas other than your usual base for meetings and/or training will also be required.

You'll ensure that:

• we produce good quality plans, deliver consistency across all districts,
• support co-production and promote collaborative working for all EHC Plans for Staffordshire’s children and young people.
• support the SEND Family Practitioner Leads to develop and sustain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders in the education, health and care needs assessment and review process.
• ensure that education, health and care plans comply with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements in addition to the policies, standards and procedures of the Authority.

This is a fast-paced role in which you will be required to manage your own caseload independently and as part of a team. The ability to reflect on practice and improve as a result is paramount.

For more information about the role please contact: Nadine Young (SEND Operational Lead) nadine.young@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Are you passionate about continuous improvement and dedicated to making a positive impact? If so , we are looking for experienced professionals to join our Improvement, Performance and Engagement Team (IPET)

The IPET is a multi-disciplinary team whose purpose is to turn information into intelligence to improve performance and outcomes for children and families.

This vacancy is for a two-year fixed term contract and will initially support the development of our Family Hubs.

• work as part of a team to support the Continuous Improvement Partners (CIP) in providing guidance and support on continuous improvement activity across the Children and Families system; and ensure that we are joined up in delivery.
• take the responsibility for the delivery of a discrete area of the team’s operations such as policy and procedure management, project management approach, or auditing.
• will play an important role in the development, design and delivery and quality assurance of major change and improvement programmes.
• develop strong and effective relationships with directorate colleagues, senior colleagues and partners to ensure we deliver continuous improvement the improves outcomes for service users and supports us to achieve our one system vision.

You will :

• be keen to make a positive difference for children and families.
• strike the right balance between coaching and supporting colleagues and providing challenge and support to continually improve.

You will also have the following skills and experience:

• Collaboration: you will need the ability to engage & build relationships with people from a range of backgrounds and you’ll have experience of working with partnerships with good communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong working relationships
• Influence: have the ability challenge and influence performance using data and intelligence with a clear focus on outcomes & impact for our children and families
• Facilitation: have strong facilitation skills and be an advocate for co-production to ensure community engagement and commitment
• Organisation: have strong project and programme management experience
• Committed – you will be able to work effectively as part of the team to deliver our objectives and outcomes, with a high level of personal drive and integrity, and be committed to proactively solving problems and developing innovative solutions to improve outcomes for our children and families.

If you’d like to discuss the role in more detail, we’d love to hear from you, please contact either:

Deb Nash, Continuous Improvement Partner

Email: debbie.nash@staffordshire.gov.uk

Or

Jenny Herbert, Head of Improvement, Performance and Engagement

Email: jenny.herbert@staffordshire.gov.uk

Please note the closing date for this vacancy may be brought forward if we receive a high number of applications. Therefore, if you are interested in applying, it is recommended that you complete your application well in advance of the closing date. Interviews will take place week commencing 12th August.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

The ICT Governance, Change and Assurance Team engages with the business community across SCC and external partners to understand how technology can support their needs and ensure that they implement the right solution, gaining maximum benefits from their investments. Alongside work for business areas we have an extensive portfolio of technical projects. We are looking for the right individual to assist the team in delivering this exciting and challenging work

Interviews will be on the 3rd & 4th June

You'll be responsible for:

• Managing a range of technical and business change projects under the guidance of the ICT Programme and Portfolio Manager and will be mentored by a Senior ICT Project Manager
• Plan prepare and conduct meetings, workshops, training sessions and presentations for a wide variety of technical and non-technical audiences of all levels
• Ensure that projects are formally closed and, where appropriate, subsequently reviewed against the Business Case and ensure that lessons learned are fully documented and shared
• Assist in the management of costs, timescales and resources used and take action where these deviate from agreed tolerances.
• Contribute to the preparation of realistic project, resource and where required quality plans and track activities against the plans, providing regular and accurate reports to stakeholders and ICT PMO as appropriate, in line with the agreed ICT governance process and to keep Customers fully informed of progress

• Highly organised, love planning
• Good at multi-tasking and prioritising work
• Great with people
• Quick to access a situation
• Unflappable
• Have a positive outlook, with an eye for opportunities
• Passionate about making a difference for our business areas and customers
• Some knowledge of project management or experience of project support
• Looking for a successful career in Project Management

For more information about the role or an informal discussion, please contact Cynthia Whale, ICT Programme & Portfolio Manager at: cynthia.whale@staffordshire.gov.uk

For this role the successful candidate must undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. BPSS is the minimum standard to ensure the identity and integrity of an employee who has access to official information using secure networks linking central government and local authorities. A BPSS check involves four main elements; Identity Check, National and Immigration Status, Employment History (last 3 years) and Verification of Criminal Record (unspent convictions only).

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

It’s an exciting time to join our Highways Team here at Staffordshire County Council.

Our vision is to help Staffordshire’s economy grow, so that everyone has the opportunity of a good job and good prospects in a beautiful, safe, accessible, vibrant, cultural, prosperous, business friendly and sustainable county.

Staffordshire has great places and great connections, boasting the beautiful rural landscape of a shire county together with excellent transport links to major destinations across the country.

We are committed to fixing more roads and improving transport and digital connections and we are making significant investment into our network. To ensure we can deliver our ambitious Highways Transformation we are looking to grow our team of highway engineering professionals and develop talent for the future.

Our Community Highways team ensure local concerns are prioritised and addressed alongside strategic programmes of highway works - acting as highway ambassadors within communities and as advocates for local communities within the wider service.

We have 2 posts available, one in Leek and one in Gailey Highway Depots, however, flexible working arrangements are available.

In this brand new role you will:

• provide management support to ensure a community-based approach to the delivery of the highway service, improving elected member and community satisfaction.
• respond to complex highway enquiries and providing expert advice and guidance on what local highway improvements can be achieved within budgetary, best practice and legislative constraints.
• provide a local focus for all highway activity within a geographical area, identifying and collating priorities against a complex criteria, and commissioning delivery to ensure contract compliance, quality and value for money.

You will have:

• Significant experience in the delivery of highway services
• knowledge of highway related legislation, regulations, and best practice.
• Excellent relationship management skills with experience of working and negotiating in both community representatives and delivery partners.
• ability to manage a complex workload and respond flexibly to changing circumstances.

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closing date.

For further information about the role please contact Community Highway Managers: David Greatbatch (Leek) david.greatbatch@staffordshire.gov.uk or Mark Keeling (Gailey) mark.keeling@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Together4Children is an innovative partnership between Shropshire Council, Staffordshire County Council, Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Telford & Wrekin Council. We are the Regional Adoption Agency for the four councils. We also provide other services and initiatives that support children’s permanency.

Our ambition is to ensure that children who come into local authority care and are not able to return to their parents, achieve permanence within loving families without unnecessary delay.

This role is employed by Staffordshire County Council with duties across the Together4Children Region.

The position is based in Stafford, however, Together4Children operates from a range of office locations across our region and there is potential flexibility in relation to the main office base for the role. We also operate an agile working approach to service delivery. Regional activity and communication is supported through the use digital technologies including Microsoft Teams.

Key Accountabilities include:

• System-wide leadership across the Together4Children Regional Permanency Partnership.
• Accountable lead for the Together4Children Regional Adoption Agency (RAA), ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance and representing the Agency locally, regionally and nationally.
• Leading the Regional Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for Together4Children to take accountability for the delivery of outcome focused services for children and their families.
• Leading change and transformation through the development of regional service provisions that enable children to achieve permanency.
• Act as the Principal Advisor to the Together4Children Regional Management Board, providing expert, specialist and timely information, advice and guidance to ensure the Partnership achieves its strategic goals, outcomes and priorities.
• Advocate for children, birth parents, foster carers, adopters, kinship carers and special guardians; and engage with the regional workforce to ensure that a broad range of views, opinions and lived experiences directly inform development and practice across the Together4Children region.

We're looking for a passionate, committed and highly motivated individual to join us in this key leadership role. Reporting to our Regional Management Board represented by Directors/Assistant Directors of Children’s Services you'll be working with a range of national and regional stakeholders. You'll be an insightful thinker with a track record of delivering complex services, driving performance and developing practice.

You'll also be required to:

• Have a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England
• Bring your comprehensive management and leadership experience to the role.
• Have expertise across Care Planning, Adoption, Fostering, Kinship Care and Special Guardianship. Must have experience in managing adoption portfolio.
• Be forward-thinking and able to deliver against the Partnership’s vision
• Have an understanding of current national policy and developments relevant to Children Social Care and the drivers for change.

As a strong leader, you will utilise your skills to harness partnership working and navigating the complexities of adoption and other forms of permanence, whilst maintaining an absolute focus on children’s outcomes.

For more information or an informal chat

Please contact nisha.gupta@staffordshire.gov.uk the Assistant Director of Children's Social Care at Staffordshire or Tanya.Miles@shropshire.gov.uk Executive Director of People at Shropshire.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Are you a dynamic, self-motivated individual with a successful record of ICT project management? Are you devoted to continuous improvement, delivering benefits for organisations and their customers? Can you turn a challenge into an opportunity? We may just have your ideal job!

The ICT Governance, Change and Assurance Team engages with the business community across SCC and external partners to understand how technology can support their needs and ensure that they implement the right solution, gaining maximum benefits from their investments. Alongside work for business area we currently have an extensive portfolio of technical projects. We are looking for the right individual to assist the team in delivering this exciting and challenging work.

Interview dates: Thursday 11th and Friday 12th January 2024

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing a range of technical and business change projects, ensuring that our 'Cloud First' strategy is at the forefront.

As a Senior Project Manager this will include managing complex projects and programmes of work.

Our Senior Project Managers also provide mentoring and guidance for more junior roles, and as part of the team encourage colleagues to develop ensuring the team strives to be the best it can.

The ideal candidate should

• possess excellent inter personal skills, acting as a translator between business, suppliers and ICT
• be highly motivated, self-starter with a drive to succeed
• have a track record of successful project deliveries, with a ‘can do’ attitude
• be able to deal with a range of issues and conflicting demands, knowing when to escalate
• provide a calming influence even under pressure

If you would like to discuss the role then please contact Cynthia Whale via email on cynthia.whale@staffordshire.gov.uk

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme