Resource Officer
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £32,076 to £36,648 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stanton House, Huntingdon / Hybrid, PE29 6XL |
| Company: | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | Ref/9470/4363 |
Summary
The Resource Officer role is an important position at the heart of the high-quality care and service we provide at Cambridgeshire County Council’s Children’s Access to Resources Team.
You will be part of a highly motivated team, working closely with a range of care professionals, making sure we always deliver the best outcomes for our Children and Young People in our region.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Tahmina. Hussain@cambridgshire.gov.uk
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
You will be negotiating and working hard in partnership with all stakeholders to deliver high quality services for children and young people; improving their outcomes and achieving best value.
You’ll need to be able to manage competing priorities, within a supportive yet pressured environment and work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, both autonomously and as part of a team,. You will apply a solution focused approach.
Attention to detail is essential in this role along with the ability to complete accurate and detailed records.
Why you should join Cambridgeshire County Council
Cambridgeshire County Council is embarking on a new phase of service delivery after a period of joint working with Peterborough City Council and this brings some exciting opportunities to work in Children's Commissioning. We have a new Executive Director for Adults, Health and Commissioning, and we are focusing on services to the citizens of Cambridgeshire with bold ambitions to achieve excellent standards. If you have the passion for putting children and young people at the heart of everything you do and the ambition to help shape our future, we would love to hear from you.
We offer:
- A salary offered at Grade SO1/SO2 which is £32,076 - £36,648
- Excellent index-linked, defined benefit pension scheme.
- Outstanding occupational, sick, maternity/paternity and shared parental leave schemes.
- Generous annual leave entitlement.
- Training and development.
This is a hybrid working role, working from a Huntingdon office base and from home. You may be expected to work from the office on 3 days a week.
Interviews will be in the week beginning 10th June.
About youTo be considered for this exciting role you will need:
- to be an excellent communicator both spoken and written.
- to have strong customer focus.
- to have effective negotiation skills.
- to have excellent organisational skills.
- to work well under pressure.
- to be experienced with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
- to have a willingness to learn and progress with a can-do attitude.
- to have the ability to develop and maintain knowledge of different service provisions to meet the needs of looked after children, care leavers and vulnerable young adults.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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