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Southend-on-Sea City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent mental health experienced Social Worker to join the newly formed Adult Mental Health Team.Working with a sometimes complex caseload, you will undertake Care Act Assessments, review existing Mental Capacity Assessments, Mental Health Tribunal Reports, Court of Protection Reviews and act as a Social Supervisor for restricted patients under the Mental Health Act.
As a professional Social Worker, you will support adults aged 18 and over, young people transitioning to adult social care and their carers, playing a key role in promoting independence, wellbeing, and choice by providing a proactive, preventative, strength-based social work service. Working directly with individuals and their carers, to help them understand their strengths, assets, and desired outcomes; empowering them to identify and build solutions that enable them to lead safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives.
The council encourages and supports all qualified social workers with 2 years' post registered experience to achieve and maintain additional qualifications and assume additional responsibilities.These qualifications are currently:

• Approved Mental Health Practitioner
• Practice Educator
• Best Interest Assessor

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving the lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others & being open to new ideas.Hybrid working opportunities are available.

However, a flexible approach is needed as you will be required to be on site a minimum of 2 days a week, and it is essential that you are a car driver and have access to a vehicle.

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.

Current experience within Adult Social Work is essential, previous mental health experience would be beneficial to the post.You will ideally have experience in working within a local authority setting and be able to demonstrate your commitment to effective team working.As a social worker you will need to have: - excellent communication skills; be proficient with using various computer systems and programmes; a good manager of time and be able to work under pressure; working experience of knowledge of working with adults and older people; experience of safeguarding; and experience of undertaking Mental Capacity Act assessments.

What you'll get in return
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working, salary car sacrifice scheme and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training.


What you need to do now
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Your new role
Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time Children's Brokerage Officer within a 12-month fixed-term contract.

As the newly appointed Brokerage Officer, you will need to contribute to achieving improved outcomes for Children in Care, by coordinating and identifying quality placements for children that are matched, cost-effective and that will meet their assessed needs. Ensuring that the child or young person is supported to achieve the highest level of independence.

You will manage a range of placement data systems and provide management information. Liaise with other agencies, external providers and colleagues in relation to the placement of Children in Care. You will also be required to respond positively and professionally to referrals from Social Workers, ensuring the quality of information enables the identification of placements that meet the child's or young person's assessed needs.

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 are required to be educated to degree level or equivalent. You need a detailed knowledge of safeguarding, looked after children's practice issues and knowledge of appropriate legislation and regulations, concerning family and residential placements for Looked After Children.
You must have the ability to write reports for a variety of audiences, and it would be beneficial to have a working knowledge of commissioning, negotiating contracts/procurement, and a knowledge of fostering regulations.

What you'll get in return
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training.

What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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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.You must have knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations, skills in assessment of carers and the ability to provide support and guidance to carers is essential.

You need to have experience of applying the Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005) and managing adult safeguarding enquiries or have a good understanding/knowledge if no direct experience is available.

What you'll get in return
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training.

What you need to do now
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Your new role
Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent YOS Officer.To ensure that the Council provides a first class professional service within the Youth Justice Service (YJS) by working for a needs-led service to children, young people and their families in order to prevent offending and re-offending.

You will be required to regularly write assessments and/or reports on young people and their families for court, panels and professional meetings.The role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to engage young people and their families whilst they are on a court order. Ensure adherence to YJB policies and practices including performance indicators and national standards, ensuring timeliness of assessment and reviews. Adhere to corporate and departmental policies and practices including providing all data as and when required. You will manage highly complex cases that pose significant risk to others in the community. This could include young people involved in harmful sexual behaviour, gangs/County Lines [serious youth violence].

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this position, you must be able to work in the UK. You must have a relevant professional qualification to degree level (or equivalent) in Youth Justice, Careers, Education & Guidance, Youth & Community, Probation Service or Social Work and be currently working in the Youth Sector.

Extensive experience of undertaking assessments and writing reports.Experience of assessing and managing the risk of harm to others and protecting the public, managing the safety and well-being of young people both in the community and custody. Have a good knowledge of how to manage the risks young people pose to re-offending with evidence of continuing professional development and extensive knowledge of methods of youth justice intervention, child protection and prevention.

What you'll get in return
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working, salary car sacrifice scheme and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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Your new role
Southend City Council have fantastic opportunities in their Prevention Service, who are currently expanding their service and looking for more Social Workers to join their teams on a full-time permanent basis.

There has never been a better time to join our teams and participate in growing our service to be innovative, creative and providing high quality support to people when they need it most. The main aim of the teams is to use a strength-based approach to support people returning home after hospital and 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. You will work within the relevant legal frameworks, guidance, policies, and procedures to undertake assessments, reviews and support planning with individuals and their carers, promoting well-being, independence and safety. You will also undertake safeguarding processes.

You will be joining one of two close-knit teams with extremely supportive and experienced managers and senior staff and excellent learning and development opportunities. We are committed to your continuous professional development and offer regular supervision within a supportive working environment, so you are given the capacity to provide the excellent level of support and attention needed, to make a real difference to the lives of people in our community.You will promote our Connected Southend Model. Connected Southend is Southend's whole service approach to community practice, personalised enablement, new models of commissioning and social care support across the city. In essence, it is our new approach to providing the very best information, advice, prevention, support and social care. Alongside this, Connected Southend has the heart of the city embedded within, through our use and support of voluntary and community groups, our arts, culture, leisure and our heritage.Living in Southend is so much more than local identity; it is how we relate to everything around us; our history as much as our future, and our desire to remain within the communities we call home with the people that are important to us.Bringing together practitioners, commissioners and providers, as well as our wider culture, arts and leisure services, we aim to change the way we support and enable people to live the lives they choose to live.

Connected Southend is underpinned by the core concepts of the Care Act, ensuring community opportunities, citizenship and personalised outcomes and is now core to Southend's Social Services plans for the future. The model itself sets out standards, principles and approaches for staff delivering services. It places more emphasis on prevention and enablement, and supports people to live the life they want.

Within these positions, hybrid working is 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 need to have previous experience of working in the Adult Social Care sector.

You will have the ability to apply a strength-based, asset-based approach to assessment, care planning and review.Have experience of applying the Care Act (2014), Mental Capacity Act (2005) and managing adult safeguarding enquiries or have a good understanding/knowledge if no direct experience is available.You need to have the ability to develop relationships with internal & external stakeholders including voluntary, public, private sector organisations, partners, suppliers and contractors, as well as ongoing commitment to continuous professional training and self-development.

What you'll get in return
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working, salary car sacrifice scheme and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training.

What you need to do now


If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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• Your New Organisation

My client is a social housing provider based in South Wales. Their mission is to ensure safe, comfortable, and sustainable housing for the community. As part of the team, you'll contribute to their commitment to excellence and service delivery.

• Your New Role

As a Senior Surveyor, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring efficient technical services within our organisation. This will include becoming a key figure in the repair services department and steering the organisation's reactive maintenance. Your responsibilities will encompass property inspections, risk-based assessments, and managing repair projects. Compliance with health and safety regulations is paramount, and you'll provide expert advice while collaborating with tenants and stakeholders.

• What You'll Need to Be Successful

You will need to be an experienced repair surveyor working within social housing and have the proven ability to manage diagnostics, structural defects and insurance work. Demonstrate expertise in housing and property service maintenance and refurbishment, including proficiency in budget planning and resource monitoring, experience in managing construction work, including subcontractors, and a track record of meeting deadlines and KPIs. You will need to be proficient in maximising IT / software to improve the surveying service. Experience using Housing Health & Safety Rating System is desired.

• What You'll Get in Return

You will become a key member within the assets department, which will include a salary between £40,477 - £43,600 per annum (dependent on experience). Opportunities for professional growth and development and support with RICS or CIOB qualifications.

• What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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Are you an ambitious, motivated, and excellent Teacher of English looking for a career-defining opportunity? We are seeking a passionate English Teacher to join a mixed school who believe that every child has the potential to be a successful learner, whatever their background, ability, interests or talents. They are committed to demonstrating this belief to our students, ensuring their success.

Multiple opportunities for a skilled English Teachers are available at a well-regarded secondary school in Tunbridge Wells with a start date of September 2024. Hays Education, a leading provider with exclusive partnerships with secondary schools in North Kent, Maidstone, Tunbridge wells and Ashford, is assisting several schools in enhancing their Maths department. We are actively seeking experienced teachers and Early Career Teachers (ECTs) interested in embarking on a rewarding new journey with the potential for growth and exciting challenges.

Tunbridge Wells, officially known as Royal Tunbridge Wells, is a charming small town nestled in the heart of Kent, often referred to as the "Garden of England." Surrounded by rolling hills and striking landscapes, Tunbridge Wells offers scenic beauty that captivates residents and visitors. The town's transport links are excellent, with regular train services to London Charing Cross within an hour and 40 minutes to London Gatwick, meaning you can jet off on weekend breaks and half-terms. If you crave fresh sea air, the train station also connects to Brighton and other charming towns. Education excellence is another highlight, with outstanding primary and secondary schools, including three grammar schools. The quality of life is exceptional, with stunning green spaces, low crime rates, and a vibrant cultural scene. Tunbridge Wells has a rich history and, in summary, this regal haven combines natural beauty, education, and a high quality of life.

Role and Responsibilities:
*To plan, develop and deliver high quality lessons using a variety of approaches, to continually enhance teaching and learning
*To monitor student progress, keeping student records that include assessment outcomes and targets set at regular intervals in line with Academy policy, to enable all students to achieve their full potential.
*Contribute to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare and personal care of children and young people with regard to Every Child Matters agenda and Area Child Protection Procedures.
*Ensure continuity, progression and cohesiveness in all teaching.
*Set homework regularly, (in accordance with the Academy homework policy), to consolidate and extend learning and encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning
*Track student progress, monitoring achievement against targets set, and take appropriate action on student outcomes.
*Be a role model to students through personal presentation and professional conduct.

Requirements:
*Bachelor's degree in English or any other related field.
*Teaching certification or relevant teaching qualifications.
*Proven experience of teaching English at the secondary or higher education level.
*Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

Benefits:
* Membership of a generous pension scheme

• Teacher/Support Staff Pension contribution.
• Free Flu Vaccinations.
• Employee Assistant Programme via Health Assure.
• Free Eye Tests.
• Mentoring and high-level training
• Trust wide focus on wellbeing including respite weeks and breakfast
• Subsidised staff meals
• Free, secure car parking

*Travel Vouchers and Benefits: 3 x £100 vouchers given each term and a variety of discount codes and cash-backs.**
*Hays Training Hub: Access to over 80,000 training courses including training pop-up centres. *
*Your own Dedicated Secondary Consultant

Application Process:

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV or call us now.
If this job is not quite right for you, but you are looking for a new job in education, please still contact your local office for a confidential

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Your new role

Customer/Sales Account Manager
Permanent and Full-time
£26,000 - £30,000 per annum
Hybrid working
Wednesbury based

Key duties:

• Generating new business
• Proactive retention of the customer base
• Identify opportunities for new business
• Cross-selling and up-selling products
• Maintaining market knowledge
• Liaise with other departments
• General customer service

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience working in a sales environment
• Confident, approachable telephone manner
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to analyse and work with sales data
• Experience using a CRM or salesforce

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

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Your new company
The nursery is a medium-sized setting operating within the hours of 8am until 6pm. There is space within the nursery for an outdoor classroom, playground, green spaces and a forest school opposite. The nursery has good transport links to Brighton and Hove, is a short walk from the train station and has on-site parking. The nursery is looking for a confident and friendly individual to engage children, oversee the development of your key children. Our nursery has an incredibly supportive and educational approach, passionate about developing its staff and actively promoting career development from within the nursery.Your new role

In your role, you will be responsible for being the key worker to a group of children, having the responsibility of building a relationship with them and their family. You will engage children in learning and help them to develop and learn new skills and independence. We try to keep paperwork to a minimum so that you can spend as much time as possible making a difference to your key children's lives. You will be assisting with the day to day running of the classes, supporting the children and using your initiative to help them succeed.
What you'll need to succeed

You will need to have worked within a nursery/primary/pre-prep environment in the last 2 years, and that can provide a reference. You need to have a clean, enhanced DBS check on the updated service or, if not, the nursery will run an enhanced DBS check for you. You need to be flexible and, most importantly, have a fun personality that the children will be able to engage with.

• Level 3 Qualification deemed full and relevant within Early Years
• Previous experience and good knowledge of EYFS
• Experience as or willingness to learn to be a key person with daily contact with children's parents
• 35-40 hour working weeks

What you'll get in returnRewards and Benefits:

• Market-leading pay and loan facilities
• 37-40 hour working weeks
• 28 days annual leave plus 2 wellbeing days
• Comprehensive induction
• Continuous training programmes
• Company Pension

What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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Your new role
Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time agency Senior Fostering Placements Officer.Within this post you will manage, process and update the internal system, make payments to Foster/Kinship Carers, update/set up Children/Young people's placements and update/process children looked after (CLA) notifications.

Working alongside Social Workers, Supervising Social Workers and Foster carers, you will be required to take a lead role in the day-to-day matching of in-house foster placement vacancies. Identifying and co-ordinating foster placements for children and young people who need to be looked after by the Local Authority, these placements may be short term, long term, respite care or parent and child placements.

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 educated to degree level and have previous experience within children social care and fostering services.

You will need to have knowledge of the issues affecting Children Looked After (CLA) and the challenges facing them within the social care system. Have awareness of the expectations and challenges that foster carers face in providing care for vulnerable children, along with knowledge of relevant fostering legislation and regulations, which underpin fostering agencies.

This is not a case holding post.

What you need to do now
If you are interested in this role, please click 'apply online' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above, so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to. All applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.

The Council is an equal-opportunities employer. We welcome applications, regardless of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief.

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CMA's client is a rapidly expanding business who is looking to appoint an Interim Finance Manager into supportive role for this fast-paced business. Reporting into the Financial Director, you will be in charge of running a finance function and ensuring the team are supported and driven forward.

Paying an excellent hourly rate of £25.65, this is an ideal role for an existing Finance Manager to add value within this interim opportunity with an immediate start on offer.

What will the Interim Finance Manager role involve?

• Team of 5 reports covering transactional finance and payroll;
• Supporting month end processes, ensuring month end is closed efficiently;
• Financial accounts and management accounts production;
• Accounting for a multiple entity environment, journal postings and intercompany accounts;
• KPI analysis and attending senior management meetings to provide meaningful insight.
• Occasional travel to various sites to business partner with regional management teams.
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Suitable Candidate for the Interim Finance Manager vacancy:

• Ideally you will be ACCA/CIMA qualified or have the relevant practical experience;
• People management experience and ability to drive a team forward, getting the most from the department;
• A detailed understanding of month end, year end and audit processes;
• Healthcare industry sector experience is advantageous although not essential;
• Ability to start a new role immediately.

Additional benefits and information for the role of Finance Manager:

• Good hourly rate and paid weekly;
• One or two days a week hybrid working;
• Central location, great offices and free parking.

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Your new role
Southend City Council are looking to appoint a full-time, permanent YOS Officer.To ensure that the Council provides a first class professional service within the Youth Justice Service (YJS) by working for a needs-led service to children, young people and their families in order to prevent offending and re-offending.
You will be required to regularly write assessments and/or reports on young people and their families for court, panels and professional meetings.The role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to engage young people and their families whilst they are on a court order. Ensure adherence to YJB policies and practices including performance indicators and national standards, ensuring timeliness of assessment and reviews. Adhere to corporate and departmental policies and practices including providing all data as and when required. You will manage highly complex cases that pose significant risk to others in the community. This could include young people involved in harmful sexual behaviour, gangs/County Lines [serious youth violence].

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this position, you must be able to work in the UK. You must have a relevant professional qualification to degree level (or equivalent) in Youth Justice, Careers, Education & Guidance, Youth & Community, Probation Service or Social Work and be currently working in the Youth Sector. Extensive experience of undertaking assessments and writing reports.Experience of assessing and managing the risk of harm to others and protecting the public, managing the safety and well-being of young people both in the community and custody. Have a good knowledge of how to manage the risks young people pose to re-offending with evidence of continuing professional development and extensive knowledge of methods of youth justice intervention, child protection and prevention.

What you'll get in return
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working, salary car sacrifice scheme and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training.

What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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Your new organisation
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 are seeking to recruit an organisation development consultant to join the organisation development and learning team on a full-time and fixed-term contract basis (12 months). This contract is offered on a hybrid basis, which is a blend of working from the office and remote working.

As an organisation development consultant, you will drive organisational transformation and development initiatives, focusing on enhancing Southend City Council's effectiveness. You will lead the implementation and change management related to the Business World Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, ensuring smooth adoption and integration across the council. You will develop and execute change management plans that maximise employee adoption and usage. You will collaborate with stakeholders to identify and manage change impacts and resistance to include management of the Learning and Development Programmes to embed the change within each of the Council's Directorates.

You will create and deliver communication plans to keep stakeholders informed and engaged throughout all project work.
You will also monitor the effectiveness of OD and change initiatives, using insights to drive continuous improvement.

What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in this role, it is vital that you have a comprehensive understanding of organisation development and change management theories as well as practical application within a professional setting, including knowledge of relevant legislation, policies, and procedures. Excellent communication skill is essential for this role as you will be required to prepare and undertake briefings to all levels on a range of subjects. You need to have good understanding and experience of designing and implementing communication strategies.

To be successful in this role, proven experience of project management and programme delivery is essential for this role. It is highly essential that you have strong stakeholder management and partnering skills as you will be liaison with a variety of stakeholders and senior leaders within and outside the Council. Working knowledge of Unit 4 - Business World system or ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning) would be highly desirable but not essential.

This role will suit an individual who has previously worked as either HR business partner or Change manager or Change consultant or Programme manager etc.

To be considered for this role, you must possess either certification in CIPD (Level 5) or Organisational Development or Change Management, or a related field.

What you'll get in return
When joining the council, you can enjoy a range of benefits including: 25 days annual leave, flexible working and excellent training and development opportunities. They are committed to ensuring that you are supported in this varied and challenging role with the appropriate level of training. A full list of benefits provided by Southend Council can be viewed on the "Why Work For Us?" tab.

What you need to do now
If you are interested in this role, please click 'apply online' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.Please note: Applications for this vacancy may close prior to the date advertised above, so you are advised to apply as soon as you are able to.The Council is an equal-opportunities employer. We welcome applications, regardless of race, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, age or religion or belief.

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