Total 495 Senior Executive job vacancies in Southend-On-Sea, Essex

Senior Care Assistant (Days and Nights) based at Lauriston, St Leonards On Sea

Available Hours:

Various hours available

0 hours - 44 hours

Please note we are only accepting candidates currently living within a 10-mile radius of the Care Home

About the role

As a Senior Care Assistant at MHA you will lead and inspire a team of committed care assistants to provide the highest quality of care to our residents enabling them to live later life well. Duties will be varied and include supporting our residents with personal care needs and helping them to take part in a wide range of activities that support their health and wellbeing. In addition, you will administer medication and maintain clear and accurate records. Every day will be different and you'll have the opportunity to use your leadership and people skills to make a real difference.

About you

As a Senior Care Assistant, you will be passionate about caring for older people, have previous care experience and, as a minimum, hold an NVQ level 2 or equivalent in health and social care and be willing to complete level 3. In addition, you will have experience leading, coaching and motivating a team to deliver high quality care.

You will have a kind, warm and caring nature and be able to work well as part of a team but also use your own initiative. Patience, communication and listening skills are equally important. Maintaining accurate records, time management and prioritising tasks will also be strengths. So, if you have the ability to lead by example, form positive relationships and energise colleagues to deliver exceptional care then we'd love to hear from you.

To apply please email or visit our website at mha.org.uk

For more information about the role please review the attached job description.

Why join?

You will be joining an organisation with strong values, a highly supportive culture and a commitment to the safety and wellbeing of employees. In addition, you will work alongside highly motivated colleagues in an environment of strong teamwork whilst also having fun. This is a hugely rewarding role and a career to be proud of where every day you will go home knowing you made a positive difference to the lives of older people.

In addition to a highly competitive salary, we offer a lot more:

• Holiday entitlement depends on number of hours worked

  and an option to buy annual leave.
• Life assurance.
• A discount scheme which includes savings with retail stores and online purchases.
• Access to a number of nationally recognised training courses and qualifications.
• Genuine career progression and development opportunities.
• Employee assistance programme including free counselling and legal advice.
• Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support.
• Access to wellbeing resources.
• Recommend a friend scheme.
• Family friendly policies.
• Long service awards.
• Free uniform and DBS check.
• Healthcare scheme at competitive rates.

About us

MHA is the UK's largest charity care provider and our mission is to 'enable people to live later life well'. Through 90 specialist care homes, 70 thriving retirement living schemes and 62 vibrant community services and befriending, we inspire the best care and wellbeing at every stage of later life. We have over 7,600 dedicated colleagues and are supported by over 4,000 generous volunteers. All our donations and any surplus we generate is invested into the services we provide for our 18,500 residents and members. Our values underpin our entire approach: we nurture mind body and spirit; we respect every person, treating them with dignity; and we inspire the best in each other.

About the home

At Lauriston, we provide residential, nursing and residential dementia care for 60 residents, in purpose-built, en suite accommodation. Being close to the coast, it's a wonderfully calm and welcoming space, where we offer personalised care in a warm, supportive and safe environment.

For more information about the home, please click here

MHA are fully committed to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) as this is embedded in our values: respect, nurture and inspire. In addition, as a committed employer we have been awarded level 2 under the Disability Confident Scheme. Click here to read more about this.

Please note that interviews may take place prior to the closing date and if a suitable candidate is appointed the role may close early.

Recruitment agencies: please note, MHA do not accept unsolicited CV's from recruitment agencies, regardless of whether they are on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL). We only accept CV's from agencies that have been appointed and briefed by MHA's Talent Acquisition Team.

Please note we are only accepting candidates currently living within a 10-mile radius of the Care Home

Available Hours: Nights

Permanent - Full Time/Part Time/Various hours available

(0 - 44)

About the role

As a Senior Care Assistant at MHA you will lead and inspire a team of committed care assistants to provide the highest quality of care to our residents enabling them to live later life well. Duties will be varied and include supporting our residents with personal care needs and helping them to take part in a wide range of activities that support their health and wellbeing.

In addition, you will administer medication and maintain clear and accurate records. Every day will be different and you'll have the opportunity to use your leadership and people skills to make a real difference.

For more information about the role please review the attached job description.

About you

As a Senior Care Assistant, you will be passionate about caring for older people, have previous care experience and, as a minimum, hold an NVQ level 2 or equivalent in health and social care and be willing to complete level 3. In addition, you will have experience leading, coaching and motivating a team to deliver high quality care.

You will have a kind, warm and caring nature and be able to work well as part of a team but also use your own initiative. Patience, communication and listening skills are equally important. Maintaining accurate records, time management and prioritising tasks will also be strengths. So, if you have the ability to lead by example, form positive relationships and energise colleagues to deliver exceptional care then we'd love to hear from you.

To apply please email
or visit our website at mha.org.uk

Why join?

You will be joining an organisation with strong values, a highly supportive culture and a commitment to the safety and wellbeing of employees. In addition, you will work alongside highly motivated colleagues in an environment of strong teamwork whilst also having fun. This is a hugely rewarding role and a career to be proud of where every day you will go home knowing you made a positive difference to the lives of older people.

In addition to a highly competitive salary, we offer a lot more:

• 28 days holiday (including bank holidays) and an option to buy annual leave.
• Life assurance.
• A discount scheme which includes savings with retail stores and online purchases.
• Access to a number of nationally recognised training courses and qualifications.
• Genuine career progression and development opportunities.
• Employee assistance programme including free counselling and legal advice.
• Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support.
• Access to wellbeing resources.
• Recommend a friend scheme.
• Family friendly policies.
• Long service awards.
• Free uniform and DBS check.
• Healthcare scheme at competitive rates.

About us

MHA is the UK's largest charity care provider and our mission is to 'enable people to live later life well'. Through 90 specialist care homes, 70 thriving retirement living schemes and 62 vibrant community services and befriending, we inspire the best care and wellbeing at every stage of later life.

We have over 7,600 dedicated colleagues and are supported by over 4,000 generous volunteers. All our donations and any surplus we generate is invested into the services we provide for our 18,500 residents and members. Our values underpin our entire approach: we nurture mind body and spirit; we respect every person, treating them with dignity; and we inspire the best in each other.

About the home

At Claybourne, we provide residential dementia care for our 46 residents in purpose-built, en suite accommodation. We have a schedule of events and optional activities, helping residents to explore their interests and discover new ones.

There's music therapy, armchair exercise sessions, gardening, baking, flower arranging, arts and crafts, bingo, quizzes and church services with our dedicated chaplain. We have local entertainers and our themed events are always really popular. We also welcome small pets who bring a homely feel to the place and take regular trips out.

For more information about the home, please click here

MHA are fully committed to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) as this is embedded in our values: respect, nurture and inspire. In addition, as a committed employer we have been awarded level 2 under the Disability Confident Scheme. Click here to read more about this.

Please note that interviews may take place prior to the closing date and if a suitable candidate is appointed the role may close early.

Recruitment agencies: please note, MHA do not accept unsolicited CV's from recruitment agencies, regardless of whether they are on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL). We only accept CV's from agencies that have been appointed and briefed by MHA's Talent Acquisition Team.

Southend-on-Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community. We employ around 1,800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the Southend 2050 ambition and make lives better for the people of Southend.

Working for Southend-on-Sea City Council offers a challenging and rewarding career in local government within a collaborative and innovate environment, with the benefit of flexible working practices to support a positive work-life balance. As a Unitary Authority, we are responsible for all local government functions ranging from social services, transport, public health and parks through to planning, trading standards, community safety and education, so we offer a wide range of career opportunities. The diversity of our economy and communities and investment in a number of exciting regeneration projects makes our Council a great place to work, learn and make a difference.

Your new role

Southend Council is looking to appoint a permanent, full-time Senior Social Worker to join the Ageing Well West Team (65+).

Within this post, you will manage a caseload of complex and difficult cases involving assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of appropriate action to ensure resources are utilised effectively to safeguard and promote the welfare of Service Users. Provide a high quality resource of professional social work knowledge and expertise to the team, including supervision, meetings, assisted fieldwork, case audits and reviews. Ensuring team members carry out their core tasks to a high standard and deputise in the absence of the Service Manager.

Hybrid working is available, but you are required to be on site a minimum of 3 days a week.

You also need to have use of a car to ensure that you are able to travel around the city with ease.

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful in this position you must be able to work in the UK, have a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with the Social Work England and have completed your ASYE.

You must have post 3 years+ experience as a social worker within the adult community sector. You need to have the ability to build excellent working relationships with other agencies/professionals at all levels. You will need to be able to scope out community assets to better inform those people we work with.

If you're interested in this role please email your CV to Delanie.heyes@servicecare.org.uk or call 01772 208964

Southend on Sea City Council is a Unitary local authority, providing vital services to meet the needs of the local community. We employ around 1,800 staff who are working alongside our partners and local communities to deliver the city vision and make lives better for the people of Southend.

Working for Southend on Sea City Council offers a challenging and rewarding career in local government within a collaborative and innovate environment, with the benefit of flexible working practices to support a positive work life balance. As a Unitary Authority we are responsible for all local government functions ranging from social services, transport, public health and parks through to planning, trading standards, community safety and education, so we offer a wide range of career opportunities. The diversity of our economy and communities and investment in a number of exciting regeneration projects makes our Council a great place to work, learn and make a difference.

Your new role

Southend City Council's Adult Prevention Team have a fantastic opportunity currently for a full-time, permanent adult experienced Senior Social Worker.

There has never been a better time to join their team and participate in growing the service to be innovative, creative and providing high quality support to people when they need it most.

The main aim of the team is to use a strength-based approach to enable people to live safely in the community, maximising their abilities to care for themselves and to support carers to continue in their caring role as long as they are able to. The team work creatively with people and their carers to empower them and identify individual and community based assets.

The successful candidate will support the Team Manager in providing expert leadership and professional guidance to a team of Social Workers and Social Care Assessors. As well as taking a professional lead when required for Care Act (2014) Assessments and statutory reviews, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards safeguarding enquiries and Mental Capacity Act (2005) assessment /chairing 'best interest' meetings.

Within this position, hybrid working opportunities are available. However, you are required to be on-site at the Civic Centre a minimum of 2 days a week.

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful in this position you must be able to work in the UK, have a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with the Social Work England and have completed your ASYE.

You must have post 3 years+ experience as a social worker within the adult community sector. You need to have the ability to build excellent working relationships with other agencies/professionals at all levels. You will need to be able to scope out community assets to better inform those people we work with.

If you're interested in this role please email your CV to Delanie.heyes@servicecare.org.uk or call 01772 208964

Senior Theatre Practitioner -Scrub Nurse

Brentwood Hospital | Nursing | Permanent contract | Full time | Includes weekend work
Up to £45,000 per annum depending on experience
37.5 hours per week

Wherever you're currently working, Nuffield Health is where you'll excel. As the UK's largest Healthcare Charity, we can offer you a unique opportunity to feel valued, free from constraints and able to grow your career, while you're helping us offer the highest standards of care. It starts here. It starts with you.

Our team in our Brentwood Hospital currently have an opportunity for a Senior Theatre Practitioner.

As a Senior Scrub Practitioner you will;

• Work on a varied caseload using technology, equipment and facilities which are all state-of-the-art.

• Supervise, support and develop junior members of the team.

• Deliver high quality care and experiences for patients, which is always clinically effective, evidence based and appropriate.

• Be trained as a Surgical First Assistant or be prepared to undertake the training with us at Nuffield Health.

• Experienced in completing clinical audits where appropriate - full training will be provided.

To succeed as a Senior Scrub Practitioner you will have;

• High levels of focus and engagement.

• A passion for high standards and a meticulous eye for detail.

• Excellent communication skills and will be a great team worker. You will also be flexible and motivated.

• Promote the best evidence based practice within own scope of practice.

• Able to engage with colleagues at all levels across the hospital and contribute appropriately to achieving hospital goals within a multi-disciplinary team.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. From free membership across all of our fitness clubs, to a range of lifestyle and financial wellbeing rewards. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Nuffield Health Brentwood Hospital

Our modern, well-equipped hospital provides a range of services and treatments from outpatients and minor procedures through to inpatients and major surgical specialties. Hospital facilities include 42 beds, 4 Theatres, an Endoscopy Suite, 16 consulting rooms, MRI, CT, General Imaging, Pathology, Physiotherapy, and an onsite Pharmacy. We are established as one of the leading providers of healthcare in the area and have just completed a major refurbishment of the Endoscopy Unit. With excellent patient satisfaction rates, we are proud of our reputation for clinical excellence and outstanding care. Brentwood hospital specialises in orthopaedics, general surgery, men's and women's health, children's services, and cosmetic surgery.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

It starts with you.

senior sous chef | full time

at wagamama, we’re an eating house for the soul. with over 160 uk restaurants and growing, our purpose is to nourish the world from bowl to soul. inspired by fast-paced, japanese ramen bars since 1992. a celebration of asian food brought wagamama to life

we’re looking for a senior sous chef to join us on our continuous journey of true nourishment

the role |

as a senior sous chef at wagamama you'll be an integral part of our restaurant leadership team, supporting the head chef to in leading your kitchen team the wagamama way. you’ll live + breath our people promise, values and embody core leadership behaviours. you’ll be responsible for ensuring that every dish served by the kitchen team meets our high standards. you’ll look after the development and growth of your team, ensuring they are engaged, motivated, and high performing

our perks + quirks |

• bonus scheme | up to £3,000 a year bonus opportunity

• pension scheme

• dedicated 6-week training programme

• dry-cleaned chef whites provided every shift

• £14 - £25 of free food allowance on every shift

• 50% discount at wagamama + 30% off all other trg brands with family and friends

• internal progression opportunities | fully funded apprenticeship programmes to support your growth

• 28 days holiday

• kintsugi wellness | access to councillors, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym + leisure

• family friendly policy | any expectant person or anyone adopting a child will receive 26 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay

• financial wellbeing support | access to loans repaid through your salary for those ‘strapped for cash’ moments in life

what we look for |

• a head chef or senior sous chef with experience leading a kitchen team, driving performance through positive behaviour + actions in a fast paced + complex environment

• a strong communicator that has real conversations with consideration + care, ensuring your team feel heard + supported

• experienced in ensuring your kitchen’s food, health and safety standards are spotless

• experienced in understanding the financial performance of a kitchen including gp and stock control

• experienced in managing the labour cost of your team, reacting to changing demands where necessary

• an individual who leads to inspire and engage their team to nourish + flourish in their role and career

• passionate about creating an inclusive environment where your team feel respected + that they belong

• a forward-thinking problem solver, able to think on your feet and make quick decisions

the wagamama way |

kaizen, meaning ‘good change’, is the philosophy that sits at the core of who we are. it shapes every dish we create and pushes us to find better ways in all we do. our food, how we think, how we work, it has to be fresh. committed to championing change in both our communities + the impact on the planet

three whole decades of acting different, we don’t conform, we celebrate difference. appreciating personality over perfection. welcoming everyone and their unique story to our benches. we promise to have your back. working together to build close bonds of trust + support. creating safe spaces where we can have real conversations with open hearts + open minds

all we ask is for you to dish up what makes you different 

be you, be wagamama

wagamama is proudly part of disability confident

*100% of tips go to our teams. average tips are based on back of house management positions across all our uk restaurants between 5/6/23 + 2/7/23. actual tips by restaurant will vary. tips are left solely at our guests discretion and are not considered as wages by the company nor are they guaranteed in any way

Salary: £42,917 - £49,133 per annum
12 Months Fixed Term Contract
37 Hours per Week

Thurrock Council has invested in RPA technology to become more efficient and reduce costs to meet its future budget savings and to improve services for its citizens. The ICT Department is at the forefront of designing and delivering technology and automation solutions that will drive transformational change, streamline process, create efficiencies and savings.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the core Digital Initiatives within the ICT Team. We are looking for an experienced RPA Developer, certified and experienced on the Blue Prism Cloud RPA platform, who can contribute to and grow our sector recognised RPA function and augment our pipeline of automation projects from day one.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead project development
- Develop and share development best practice
- Participation in new product release testing and enablement
- Build and support automation which are delivered to time, budget and agreed specification
- Quality Assure peers automations
- Lead and participate in User Acceptance Testing and defect resolution
- Identification and development of internal automation opportunities
- Participating and/or overseeing of multiple development projects simultaneously
- Participating in identification, development and testing of any new Blue Prism products and features
- 3rd line customer support for Cloud customer automation issues

Key Competencies
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in a development role.
- Experience with the Blue Prism software
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with proven delivery experience
- Strong logical thinking, problem-solving and analytical capabilities
- Ability to be adaptable and flexible working in a fast-paced fluid environment
- Ability to work as an individual and part of a team
- Strong written skills to create/ update documentation
- Strong verbal communication skills at all levels

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required, at the Basic level.

For an informal conversation about this role, please contact Ross Gilday on 07761012922
Closing Dates
Redeployment only: 12th September 2024
Internal and External: 6th October 2024
Interview Date: TBA

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Salary: £42,917 - £49,133 per annum
12 Months Fixed Term Contract
37 Hours per Week

Thurrock Council has invested in technology to become more efficient and reduce costs to meet its future budget savings and to improve services for its citizens. The ICT Department is at the forefront of designing and delivering technology and automation solutions that will drive transformational change, streamline processes, and create efficiencies and savings.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to one of the core Digital Initiatives within the ICT Team. We are looking for an experienced Power Platform Developer, certified and experienced who can contribute to and grow our capability and capacity of that function and augment our pipeline of automation projects from day one.

Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead project development
- Develop and share development best practice
- Participation in new product release testing and enablement
- Build and support developments which are delivered to time, budget and agreed specification
- Quality Assure peers developments
- Lead and participate in User Acceptance Testing and defect resolution
- Identification and development of internal development opportunities
- Participating and/ or overseeing of multiple development projects simultaneously
- Participating in identification, development and testing of any new platform products and features
- 3rd line customer support for development issues

Key Competencies
- Minimum of 2 years' experience in a development role.
- Experience with the Power Platform
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with proven delivery experience
- Strong logical thinking, problem-solving and analytical capabilities
- Ability to be adaptable and flexible working in a fast-paced fluid environment
- Ability to work as an individual and part of a team
- Strong written skills to create/ update documentation
- Strong verbal communication skills at all levels

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required, at the Basic level.

For an informal conversation about this role, please contact Caroline Wilson on (01375) 652648.

Advert Closing dates:
Redeployment only: 12th September 2024
Internal and External: 6th October 2024
Interview Date: TBC

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Senior Physiotherapist

Nuffield Health Sunbury FWC | Department | Permanent contract | Full time | Includes weekend work
Up to £47,000.00 per annum depending on experience
37.5 hours per week

If you want to make a big impact on wellbeing in the corporate space, here's where you can. As the UK's largest Healthcare Charity, we're shaping the nation's health. We support and encourage postgraduate education with access to training, mentoring and career development - so we'll help shape your future, too.

As a Senior Physiotherapist at our Sunbury Fitness and Wellbeing Centre, you'll have a BSc in Physiotherapy or equivalent plus Health and Care Professions Council registration. you will demonstrate evidence of further professional training and continual professional development, reflecting your desire to develop as a practitioner. In addition to excellent manual therapy skills, you're able to prioritise and manage a varied workload. You're also good with computers and a confident communicator.

As a Senior Physiotherapist you will:

• See a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions and post operative cases, playing a key role in helping our patients achieve, maintain and recover to the level of health and wellbeing that they aspire to.

• Deliver high quality, effective clinical care.

• Adhere to our values and beliefs at Nuffield Health, in which we encourage behaviour which is enterprising, passionate, independent and caring.

• Deliver excellent clinical care that is evidence based, Safe, Effective, Caring, Well-led and responsive to our patient's needs.

• Ensure on-going monitoring of the standard of treatment provided

• Be compliant with all professional, clinical and integrated governance standards and participate in clinical audit and other quality assurance processes

Supporting your growth.

We're committed to the professional development of all our clinical colleagues. Inside our Learning and Development Academy, you'll discover a range of internal CPD courses and online content to support your clinical and professional development. As a Nuffield Health Physiotherapist, you'll also enjoy opportunities to apply for funding support towards your relevant CPD activity and postgraduate study. Plus, you can access further professional development opportunities via the large number of apprenticeship programmes we offer.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. With emotional wellbeing support, a cycle to work scheme, online GP and private healthcare - at Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

It starts with you.

Duty Senior Practitioner - Mid Essex

Permanent, Full Time

£45,217 to £54,395 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Community-based worker

Closing Date: 2nd October 2024

This is a Full-time opportunity working 37 hours per week. Working schedule Monday-Thurs 9:00am-5.30pm and Friday 9:00am-4.30pm.

Here in Essex, we continue to raise the bar about practice and our investment in our workforce is second to none. It's an exciting time to join us. Not only have we been named Outstanding by Ofsted, we are delighted and at the same time humbled to have been crowned Social Work Employer of the Year for the second time in the last three years!

Please take a look at our 'No Magic' Children & Families video here

Assessment and Intervention (A&I)

These teams are the gateway through which children, young people, parents/carers and other agencies gain access to Children and Families services. Assessment and Intervention undertakes incoming assessments and short - term intervention work with families; working with children from pre- birth up to a child's 18th birthday.

They focus on children in need (CIN) and their families, offering three months' intervention. They also deal with S47 child protection enquiries and work jointly with the police and other partners in assessing immediate risk for children that come to our attention. A&I primarily transfer cases into Family Support and Protection Teams should families require longer-term intervention, or if the children become subject to a child protection plan or come into care of the local authority. If following an assessment and brief intervention the family do not require a social work service, they could be stepped down to Family Solutions as part of our Early Help Offer.

The Role:

As a Senior Practitioner you will provide leadership in the team, providing both support and mentoring to newly qualified or less experienced staff and deputising for the Team Manager when needed. You will oversee the review of some child in need plans particularly prior to closure and will have responsibility to lead in a practice area.

There will be opportunities for your own professional development and for being part of developing our team and service. There is an ethos of openness to the development of new ideas, particularly to reinforce our relationship-based focus, both with our service users and within the staff group.

The Experience You Will Bring:

• A recognised social work qualification i.e. Diploma, degree or Masters in social work, CQSW, CSS or equivalent, with current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a registered social worker.
• Must have a practice educator qualification. Experience of supporting and mentoring ASYE's through their first year in practice.
• Social Work England Registration as a registered Social Worker.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• IT/Word Processing Skills.
• Evidence of recent practice at an experienced social worker level, supported by comprehensive working knowledge and experience within the field of practice in Children Services.
• Preferably with experience of Child Protection work including section 47 investigations and assessments since the implementation of the Children's Act 1989.Considerable, recent experience of communicating with children of all ages and working in partnership with parents and/or carers.
• Experience in planning activities and programmes for children, young people and parents.
• Experience of Court work in relation to Child Care matters and have an understanding of the legal process.
• Detailed knowledge of current legislation pertinent to Child Protection (e.g. CA1989, CJA1991), Guidance and Regulations.
• Knowledge and understanding of child development, relating theory and practice.

To read more about us please visit: Children & Families

Please take a look at our 'No Magic' Children & Families video

The role requires you to be mobile throughout a wider operational area including travelling around the county of Essex and beyond, transporting service users and their belongings and to be able to do so in an emergency. Driving licence and car or the ability to meet the mobility requirements of the role through other means is essential.

Why Essex? Essex County Council has a location to be proud of. Our 1,300 square miles stretch from Constable Country to the Thames Estuary, from the dynamic M11 corridor to the traditional seaside resorts of Clacton and Walton. England's oldest town, Colchester, and two of its newest - Basildon and Harlow - are right here. Along with the City of Chelmsford, the county town, they form our major population centres. It means real choice and makes Essex the ideal place for your career. Read more about us.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We're committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.

We're also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email resourcing.team@essex.gov.uk

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Please note this vacancy is available as a fixed term contract or secondment opportunity for 12 months.

The Senior Performance Advisor role will have expert technical ability in performance assessment and analysis. The role proactively liaises with senior colleagues to ensure business intelligence questions are identified and answered, and that high-quality performance conversations take place, both within functional leadership teams and amongst Essex County Council's (ECC's) most senior Executive and Political Leaders.

The Senior Performance Advisor supports ECC's Corporate Leadership Team and Strategic Board to build their understanding of ECC's performance and impact and to take steps to improve performance using evidence, data and intelligence.

The role also supports ECC corporate business functions, providing advice to senior leaders on strategic performance management, helping them to learn from good practice in other places, sectors and industries, and to drive performance across corporate functions.

The role will include…

• Working with teams of data developers, performance officers and BI analyst and will matrix-lead projects to provide the best quality analysis and advice, often using complex analytical techniques.
• Providing advice to senior leaders on strategic performance management, helping them to learn from good practice in other places, sectors and industries, and to drive performance across corporate functions.
• Working collaboratively, to understand Leaders' requirements, and identifying where performance insights can inform business decisions, drive improvements or shape future plans.
• Leading multi-disciplinary 'delivery' teams of colleagues from across Strategy Insight and Engagement in order to deliver complex pieces of work, gather insights and support the development of new mechanisms to assess impact and measure performance.
• Supporting strategic reporting at the corporate level, supporting Strategic Board deep-dives into key issues.
• Providing Senior Leaders and stakeholders with the information and business intelligence required for effective leadership, governance, commissioning and decision making.
• Producing high quality analysis that draws on a range of sources and uses the most appropriate medium to visualise data to tell compelling and actionable stories with clear recommendations to improve outcomes for local people or organisational effectiveness.
• Ensuring performance management information is timely and robust is used to strengthen accountability across the organisation.
• Enabling data to be accessed by colleagues through the development of 'self-serve' capabilities.

You will bring…

• Educated to degree level or equivalent by experience.
• Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area.
• Significant experience in successfully delivering high quality, complex interpretation and analysis of data that impacts on strategic decision making - within local government or a public sector setting is desirable.
• Extensive experience of carrying out complex projects that have made tangible improvements, as well as identifying opportunities for data and analytics to solve business problems and inform future strategic direction.
• Knowledge of governance requirements around quantitative and qualitative research methodology, including excellent working knowledge of the Data Protection Act.
• Experience of leading teams within a matrix-management approach, outside of traditional line management arrangements.
• Demonstrates excellent awareness and understanding of the practical implementation of the Data Protection Act.

To read more about us please visit: Chief Executive's Office

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