Overview

Our Benefits

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

About the role

This a fixed term or secondment post until 14/03/25.  We will consider applications for full or part time working, subject to being able to deliver the overall team capacity required.

We are seeking applicants, with excellent communication and analytical skills to join a team of officers whose role is to plan and review education and childcare provision in Cambridgeshire for children and young people in the 0-19 age range and up to the age of 25 for those with special educational needs and disability (SEND), including the commissioning of new provision. 

The successful applicant will work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders (including schools, governing bodies, academy trusts and the Department for Education) to ensure that the Council meets its statutory place planning duties, with a particular focus facilitating the conversion of schools to become academies.

Applicants need to be educated to degree level or equivalent and be able to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the legislative framework governing the provision of early years (EY) and childcare places and school places for children and young people, including those with SEND, in the 0-25 age range.

More information can be found in the attached job description.

Interviews will be held at New Shire Hall, Emery Crescent, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, Huntingdon PE28 4YE on Thursday  6th June 2024. 

For informal enquiries about this role, please contact Alan Fitz at alan.fitz@cambridgeshire.gov.uk  A telephone call can be arranged should you wish.

About you

About us

Cambridgeshire 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.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.

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. 

http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

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