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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £27,711 - £30,060 / year

Description:

• The ability to work as a team or independently, with patience and tact.
• Knowledge and understanding of the commissioning cycle.
• The ability to handle difficult situations calmly and professionally.
• Ability to research, analyse and evaluate a broad range of social care information and data.
•  The ability to make decisions and escalate issues when needed.
• Good IT and numeracy skills and the ability to keep accurate records.

• You'll get the support of an experienced and enthusiastic team focused on delivering the best social care outcomes for residents of Torbay. 
• We also offer training and development opportunities, which include specialist commissioning training.
• Torbay Council offers standard benefits, including 25 days annual leave, a pension scheme, and some not-so-standard benefits as part of our employee benefits scheme – so if you would like to hop on a new bike (cycle to work scheme) or enjoy retail shopping, you can access discounts via Mylifestyle at Edenred!

Skills:

• Interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with a range of people, service users, suppliers all levels within the Authority, external agencies, and partner organisations.
• Ability to research, analyse and evaluate.
• Ability to interpret complex information/data.
• Numerical and analytical skills.
• Proven organisational and time management skills.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge and understanding of all elements of the Commissioning Cycle.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
• Knowledge of quality assurance frameworks.
• Experience of dealing effectively with the public and specific agencies.
• Experience of financial procedures and an aptitude for dealing with figure work.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience of maintaining, developing, and manipulating spreadsheet and database records.
• Understanding and experience of interpreting complex statistical information.
• Experience of performance management systems to achieve continuous service improvement.
• Experience of delivering projects within set deadlines.
• Experience of working with a wide range of partners, stakeholders, and external customers.

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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £37,938 - £40,476 / year

Description:

Skills:

• Excellent numerical skills. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex statistical information. 
• Ability to deliver high standards in data reliability and information analysis. 
• Experience of analysing and interpreting local authority or other public sector data, including education providers, health and financial data. 

Knowledge:

• Highly numerate with excellent practical knowledge of statistical techniques and reporting. 
• Solid understanding of Data Protection/GDPR requirements. 
• Knowledge of a database centric software package. 
• Significant knowledge of analytical methodologies and their application. 
• Understanding of legislative requirements of statutory returns. 

Experience & Qualifications:

• Degree in a relevant subject, such as business or ICT, or significant demonstrable experience. 
• Using performance management information to drive performance improvement. 
• Successfully leading projects and completion within agreed parameters and timeframes. 

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Job type: Onsite

Employment Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £30,559 - £33,366 / year

Description:

• You will use your fundraising experience to create a fundraising strategy for the Delivery Phase, identifying potential grant opportunities and making applications as well as looking at creating other ways of fundraising including corporate sponsorship and individual giving. You will be a core part of the small project team. 
• You will need to be organised with good attention to detail to manage a number of different pipelines simultaneously whilst supporting with reporting to grant funders. 

Skills:

• Able to draw information out from a wide range of people and perspectives. 
• Strong people skills enabling good relationships and team working. 
• Self-motivated and creative. 

Knowledge:

• Detailed knowledge of the Funding Landscape and potential grant opportunities. 
• Detailed understanding of other types of fundraising including individual giving, sponsorship, community events and corporate giving. 
• Understanding of creating a strategy to be delivered within a fixed budget. 

Experience & Qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience in successfully securing grant funding in a heritage setting. 
• Experience of reporting to funders and evaluation. 
• Experience of fundraising including individual giving, sponsorship, community events and corporate giving. 
• Experiencing of representing an organisation in the public arena. 
• Experience in delivering projects and stretching fundraising targets. 

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Job type: Onsite

Employment Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £30,559 - £33,366 / year

Description:

Skills:

• Able to draw information out from a wide range of people and perspectives.
• Able to lead / facilitate structured workshops, meetings and other similar gatherings.
• Self-motivated and creative.
• Evaluation skills.

Knowledge:

• Detailed knowledge of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and their investment principles.
• Understanding of creating a strategy to be delivered within a fixed budget.
• Detailed understanding of community engagement with places and/or the benefits of the historic environment for communities.
• An understanding of the use of digital resources to deliver engagement activities.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Extensive experience of developing and delivering a Stakeholder Engagement Strategy within the heritage or cultural sector.
• Experience of stakeholder mapping and identifying those who are missing from engagement.
• Experience managing a budget and providing appropriate reporting.
• Experiencing of representing an organisation in the public arena.

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Job type: Onsite

Employment Contract: Permanent

Salary: £25,584 - £27,269 / year

Description:

• Willingness to learn about all aspects of working in a heritage/museum setting. 
• Working within a Grade I listed building and caring for an accredited collection.
• Attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise own workload and meet conflicting deadlines.
• Having the confidence required to work at height. 
• Have the proven ability to undertake basic maintenance tasks as required. 
• Calm and friendly manner to include a positive attitude when interacting with both internal and external contacts. 
• Proven ability to demonstrate an effective customer service ethos. 
• Ability to work flexibly and work unsociable hours as well as part of a team and under own initiative. 
• Effective numeracy, written and verbal communication skills. 
• Competent IT skills.

Skills:

• Attention to detail and able to work on own initiative with the ability to prioritise workload.
• Ability to have proven skills in being able to plan, risk assess and action movement of museum collections.
• Ability to undertake basic maintenance tasks within an historic house setting. 
• Proven people skills, enabling the fostering of good relationships particularly with customers, contracted service providers, and external agencies. With the ability to demonstrate the expected strong customer service ethos. 

Knowledge:

• Hold a thorough understanding of historic house management, including the day-to-day care of historic buildings and collections to museum accreditation standards.
• Possess practical knowledge of fire and security systems and procedures.
• An extensive understanding of health and safety at work (including fire safety and COSHH), both legislative and operational.
• An extensive understanding on how to successfully set up and break down events. With the knowledge of how to follow an Event Management Plan and supervise an ongoing event.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Relevant experience of working in an historic house or cultural attraction.
• Educated to at least GCSE level grade 4 (C) or equivalent in Maths and English. 

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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Permanent

Salary: £53,718 - £56,710 / year

Description:

Skills:

• Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills. 
• Ability to manage a full and substantial workload. 
• Ability to give clear and accurate legal advice. 

Knowledge:

• An expert level of knowledge of the law and procedure within the specialist discipline. 
• A detailed knowledge of the law applicable to Local Government. 

Experience & Qualifications:

• Admitted and practicing Solicitor, Barrister, or Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives (or equivalent), with at least 3 years post qualification experience. 

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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Permanent

Salary: £25,584 - £27,269 / year

Description:

Skills:

• Effective interpersonal and communication skills including telephone manner with a customer focussed approach to work.
• Ability to cope with a wide range of tasks within a short time scale and work to deadlines.
• High degree of accuracy and attention to detail within written, oral and numeric work.
• Effective organisational skills.
• Proven effective IT skills including the use of Microsoft office software, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams and Outlook.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Safer Recruitment Practices.
• Basic understanding of recruitment and retention policies and procedures.
• Understanding of issues surrounding confidentiality. 

Experience & Qualifications:

• O Level/GCSE in English and Mathematics at Grade C and above or equivalent.
• Level 3 qualification in Recruitment, or willing to complete within 2 years of starting employment.
• Experience of working within a recruitment environment.
• Experience of working within a customer focussed environment.
• Experience of working within a team and on own.

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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £25,584 - £27,269 / year

Description:

•  A great communicator, with the ability to give clear and concise information to our customers both verbally and through written communication. 
• A good listener, who can be empathetic and understanding, whilst obtaining all of the required information to positively resolve the enquiry.
• Have excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise work tasks in a fast-paced environment.  
• A team player, with a positive outlook who would like to be part of a team with a positive workplace culture and can adhere to our core values. 

Skills:

• Effective communication and listening skills to communicate information and advice.
• To demonstrate empathy, initiative, and integrity.
• Proven ability in gathering, interpreting, explaining, associating, and applying information to meet customers’ needs.
• Ability to use standard computer applications and a willingness to acquire new skills to support service need.
• Demonstrate confidence, self-motivation, and own initiative to answer enquiries. 

Knowledge:

• An up-to-date knowledge of IT systems including all Microsoft applications.
• Experience of working in a team environment to provide a high standard of Customer Service.
• Awareness of the services that Torbay Council provide to the local community.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience of delivering high level of customer service in a customer service. 
• A commitment to working in a way which promotes equal opportunity. 
• Effective literacy. 
• Excellent keyboard/Telephone and numeric skills. 
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplined role.

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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Permanent

Salary: £47,688 - £57,954 / year

Description:

• Soulbury Scale 3-8 Plus SPA.  
• Generous leave entitlement.
• Opportunities to deliver ELSA training and supervision. 
• Flexibility of working practices.
• Being part of a broad multi-disciplinary integrated local team, working closely with SEN case officers, our virtual school, vulnerable pupils’ team, early years practitioners and our sensory impairment teams.
• Additional supervision and support for NQEP’s.  
• Access to staff networks that are open to staff, councillors and partners who share similar characteristics, life experiences, values, and beliefs. 

Skills:

• The full range of skills as appropriate to a fully qualified educational psychologist. 
• Sensitivity in working with adults and young people; both individually and in groups. 
• Ability to work with colleagues and clients in an empathic and supportive way in situations where clients and their families may feel anxious or distressed. 

Knowledge:

• A broad understanding of issues surrounding general developments in psychological and educational assessment and intervention. 
• Knowledge of both normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence (including the most commonly occurring conditions). 
• Knowledge of a range of approaches to intervention, as appropriate for use in schools and other everyday settings. 

Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience of work in relation to young people and children with special educational needs. 
• Experience in using a range of psychological assessment and intervention techniques. 

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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Permanent

Salary: £59,807 - £64,104 / year

Description:

• An Honours Degree in Psychology acceptable for membership of the BPS.
• A recognised post graduate qualification to practice as an Educational Psychologist and Membership of the HCPC.
• At least 3 years’ experience working as an educational psychologist.
• Full UK Category B (Cars) driving licence and the use of a motor vehicle insured for business / work purposes to travel throughout the authority to visit schools, attend meetings, visit clients.

Skills:

• Ability to provide effective and visible leadership to a team of professionals. 
• Evidence of successful training and disseminating of information. 
• Ability to use quality assurance tools to ensure robust and high-quality advice. 

Knowledge:

• Considerable knowledge of the professional practice of educational psychology in accordance with the ethical principles of the British Psychological Society. 
• Knowledge of solution-focused, strength-based practice and interventions to support positive change. 
• Knowledge and skills to monitor the quality and impact of service delivery.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience of operational and strategic multi-agency working with professionals and stakeholders demonstrating high level ability to work collaboratively whilst having the confidence to challenge assumptions. 
• Considerable experience as a qualified Educational Psychologist who is registered with the HCPC. 

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Job type: Hybrid

Employment Contract: Permanent

Salary: £52,239 - £55,231 / year

Description:

Skills:

• Ability to work to tight deadlines ensuring projects are delivered to specification on time and within budget.
• Ability to effectively manage, motivate and lead multi disciplined and often large and complex projects. 
• Ability to work flexibly and communicate effectively with Clients and Contractors. 

Knowledge:

• Well developed knowledge and understanding of Project Management.
• Working knowledge of Project Management Processes & Programming software.
• Demonstrable working knowledge of Construction Contracts and Law. 

Experience & Qualifications:

• Demonstrable track record of successful project delivery across a broad spectrum of works
• Experience in Managing multiple project with differing priorities
• Degree level (or equivalent) in a related discipline for example Civil Engineering or a Construction related professional qualification, knowledge of Prince2 philosophies and Membership of relevant professional associations for example Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM). 

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