Workforce Improvement Officer
| Posting date: | 16 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5436 |
Summary
Children & Families
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £34,350-£37,950 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 18.5 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 29th June 2025
Interview Date(s): 8th July 2025
An opportunity has arisen for a well organised, motivated and enthusiastic individual to join the Early Years Inclusion and Childcare Service as a Workforce Improvement Officer.
About the Role
- Promote training opportunities by undertaking the promotion and marketing of these opportunities in conjunction with the training plan through internal and external communications digitally. Articulate opportunities and offers directly with service users and stakeholders at various events.
- To support the recruitment into the sector working with colleagues’ schools and other employment agencies at recruitment events
- To ensure all providers have access to up to date advice, guidance and opportunities around continual professional development training. Signposting enquiries where appropriate to relevant web pages, professional colleagues, further/higher education establishments and training providers.
- Work in partnership with internal and external training providers and agencies to ensure the workforce improvement priorities and Local Authority Statutory Duties are delivered.
- Work collaboratively with the Workforce Improvement Advisor to undertake specific tasks, support new projects and represent the service at events and meetings.
- Travel to various events
- Alongside service members evaluate, analyse and review course specifications to assess and identify quality and content materials that require improvements. Deliver effective feedback to training providers to drive future improvements enabling effective and appropriate solutions to future service needs.
About You
Please refer to these 7 points when making your application, giving examples as evidence of how you meet them
To apply for this post, you must have :
- Level 3 qualification in relevant subject area or demonstrated equivalent experience and ability
- GSCE or equivalent grade A* - C in English and Maths
- Experience of inputting, maintaining and interrogation of database to undertake analysis and make appropriate recommendations, presenting information in different formats.
- Experience of using information in ICT including use of all Microsoft Office applications
- Experience of working in a front-line service dealing with the public and giving information
- Knowledge and understanding of the importance of confidentiality and the requirements of the Data Protection Act and GDPR
- Knowledge of recent legislation and current national initiatives in the early years agenda and ability to positively promote the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework.
- Ability to work on own initiative, to work under pressure and to deadlines through prioritising own work
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
Our main aim is to improve outcomes for children of Leicestershire. If you are successful you will be supported by Managers to be creative and solution focused as well as having access to a variety of professional development opportunities. People who work in our service say that we are a caring, approachable, friendly service who work well together and with other professionals. Staff are made to feel valued and that they are making a difference.
As Children and Family department we are committed to our vision of becoming a trauma informed responsive department. We will strive to create a safe, compassionate environment demonstrated through relationships based on trust, respect, hope and empathy. We will achieve this through a spirit of curiosity, by nurturing connections through relationships, making a deliberate effort to know and understand people.
We have an Inclusion and Diversity working party that meets regularly and the local authority has other supportive groups where you will have the opportunity to learn and connect with others.
We operate on a fully inclusive employment policy and therefore welcome without exceptions candidates who have protected characteristics. Our one prerequisite is that you are the best at what you do.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to provide evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances while still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Jo Fisher, Childcare Sufficiency and Organisational Development Team Manager
Telephone: 0116 305 6566
Email: Jo.Fisher@leics.gov.uk :
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when applying for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.org.uk/support.
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