Overview
Project Officer – NN15 7QX
Our Benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About the role
This vacancy is open to internal applicants of North Northamptonshire Council Only.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a small dynamic team supporting and managing the work of Northamptonshire Safeguarding Children Partnership (NSCP).
The NSCP is led by the four local strategic safeguarding partners (North Northamptonshire Council, West Northamptonshire Council, Northamptonshire Care Board and Northamptonshire Police), along with Northamptonshire Children’s Trust, to work together to safeguard and promote the welfare of local children including identifying and responding to their needs.
The purpose of these local arrangements is to support and enable local agencies to work together in a system where:
- Excellent practice is the norm
- Partner agencies hold one another to account effectively
- There is early identification of “new” safeguarding issues
- Learning is promoted and embedded
- Information is shared effectively
- The public can feel confident that children are protected from harm
About you
You will need to have a good knowledge of children’s safeguarding, as well as proven experience in scheduling, co-ordinating and minuting meetings to a high standard.
You will be able to work under your own initiative and be able to prioritise your work under the pressure of competing workstreams and also be a team player, supportive to your work colleagues.
Knowledge of co-ordinating training events would be useful as well as an understanding of digital design and creativity.
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
