1. family and parenting
2. children

w/c 10th November 2014
These vacancies are open to other Job Seekers as well as existing
employees of Bristol City Council unless otherwise stated.
For closing dates please refer to the website: www.bristol.gov.uk/jobs
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we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all
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the employee specification for each job applied for, are guaranteed an
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BUSINESS CHANGE ...................................................................................................... 4
Child Protection Lawyer x 2 ......................................................................................... 4
Property Lawyer .......................................................................................................... 4
Legal Assistant ............................................................................................................ 4
Service Manager – Corporate Finance ........................................................................ 5
Finance Business Partner ........................................................................................... 6
NEIGHBOURHOODS ..................................................................................................... 7
Head of Transformation ............................................................................................... 7
Head of Engagement................................................................................................... 8
Operations Manager .................................................................................................... 8
Please note Bristol City Council accepts no responsibility for the following adverts: ........ 9
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BUSINESS CHANGE
Child Protection Lawyer x 2
BG13: £35,784 - £38,422
Full time, fixed term for 12 months
Based at Whitchurch
Ref: 24926
If you are a permanent employee of Bristol City Council these fixed term posts
can only be taken as a secondment and if shortlisted you will be asked to bring
your managers written approval for a secondment to interview. Permanent
employees cannot resign their substantive post to take up a secondment or a
Fixed Term Contract.
If you are currently on a Fixed Term Contract or a member of an employment
agency (currently in a placement with Bristol City Council) this will be a Fixed
Term Contract.
The successful candidates will be experienced in public law child care cases and
confident in conducting advocacy at all levels. Lawyer’s caseloads include court
proceedings and cases in pre proceedings as well as adoption, discharge and secure
applications. There is an expectation that most advocacy will be conducted in-house.
Previous Local Authority experience in childcare law and advocacy is essential.
Please contact Heidi Gould on 0117 922 026 if you wish to have an informal
discussion regarding the above vacancy.
Property Lawyer
BG13: £35,784 - £38,422
Full time, permanent
Based at Whitchurch
Ref: 24927
An experienced commercial property lawyer is required to undertake a high profile,
high quality and complex caseload with minimal supervision. The Council manages a
vast property portfolio and the workload is both varied and challenging with an
emphasis on development projects. Previous Local Authority experience is not
essential for this post.
Please contact Andrew Jones on 0117 922 2319 for an informal discussion regarding
this vacancy.
Legal Assistant
BG8: £19,817 - £21,734
Full time, fixed term to Dec 2015
Based at Whitchurch
Ref: 24940
If you are a permanent employee of Bristol City Council these fixed term posts
can only be taken as a secondment and if shortlisted you will be asked to bring
your managers written approval for a secondment to interview. Permanent
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employees cannot resign their substantive post to take up a secondment or a
Fixed Term Contract.
If you are currently on a Fixed Term Contract or a member of an employment
agency (currently in a placement with Bristol City Council) this will be a Fixed
Term Contract.
There are six legal assistant posts in the team. The legal assistants currently support
10 lawyers. The work is diverse and interesting and includes drafting applications and
witness statements, liaising with other agencies to obtain information and evidence,
communicating with the family court and private practice lawyers and attending pre
proceedings meetings and on occasion, court hearings.
Please contact Heidi Gould on 0117 922 026 if you wish to have an informal
discussion regarding the above vacancy.
Service Manager – Corporate Finance
BG18: £55,001 - £59,477
Full time, permanent
Based at Whitchurch
Ref: 24944
Led by a directly elected Mayor, Bristol City Council delivers a comprehensive
spectrum of services and has a turnover of around a billion pounds. More than just a
civic leader, our Mayor is a champion of citizens' interests and a powerful catalyst for
change.
Bristol is a city of achievement and ambition. We're perfectly placed to benefit from
Britain's new economic landscape, with a huge creative hub, a successful Enterprise
Zone and a host of multinational companies like Airbus, the BBC, BT, HewlettPackard, Nokia Siemens, Orange, Rolls-Royce and Toshiba.
We are looking for two key financial roles to join the Council’s Finance Team, to play
an important strategic role in the delivery of finance support to services across the
Council.
About the Role
Reporting to the Service Director: Finance, the Service Manager: Corporate Finance is
a senior finance professional and leader, managing a large and diverse team of
accountants and finance staff, leading the Council’s Corporate Finance services and
transactional finance service. Functions include co-ordinating the preparation of the
Council’s revenue and capital budgets; financial planning, overall responsibility for the
preparation of the Council’s final accounts; treasury and investment management and
responsibility for transactional services (AP & AR).
In addition, the role will act jointly as Deputy s.151 officer, representing the Chief
Finance Office as required.
About You
You will need to be a fully qualified CCAB accountant (including CIMA) with a proven
track record, over a minimum of 3 years at a senior professional and/or managerial
level, of the responsibilities of the post.
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You should have an understanding of and be able to evidence working successfully in
strategy development and implementation, service delivery, resourcing, motivating and
developing teams and managing change and performance improvement.
Recruitment Timetable
The following is the indicative timetable for this recruitment process:
Closing Date:
Shortlisting by:
Interviews and Assessments:
28th November 2014
5th December 2014
TBC
If you would like to discuss this role, or have any further queries then please contact
Peter Gillet, Service Director: Finance on 0117 92 22419
Finance Business Partner
BG17: £50,226- £54,047
Full time, permanent
Based at Whitchurch
Ref: 24945
Led by a directly elected Mayor, Bristol City Council delivers a comprehensive
spectrum of services and has a turnover of around a billion pounds. More than just a
civic leader, our Mayor is a champion of citizens' interests and a powerful catalyst for
change.
Bristol is a city of achievement and ambition. We're perfectly placed to benefit from
Britain's new economic landscape, with a huge creative hub, a successful Enterprise
Zone and a host of multinational companies like Airbus, the BBC, BT, HewlettPackard, Nokia Siemens, Orange, Rolls-Royce and Toshiba.
We are looking for two key financial roles to join the Council’s Finance Team, to play
an important strategic role in the delivery of finance support to services across the
Council.
About the Role
Reporting to the Service Director: Finance, the Finance Business Partners provide
strategic financial advice and challenge to services, both on national policies and local
issues and play an essential role at the heart of our services, providing an essential
link between the finance team and department. Providing financial analysis to support
decision making will be a major part of this role.
This post will provide support to the Council’s People Directorate, which provides
services supporting Vulnerable Adults and Children across the City. This is a time of
significant change in these areas, and you will need to provide strategic financial
support for the Better Care Fund, implementation of the Care Act and Designated
Schools Grant.
About You
You will need to be a fully qualified CCAB Accountant (including CIMA) with
knowledge, experience and understanding of financial management and financial
frameworks in a large complex organisation. Working with senior managers across
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the Authority, you will need to have a proven ability of establishing credibility with
directors, senior management teams and other stakeholders.
Previous experience of providing financial support to Adult and Children’s Services
would be an advantage, as would an understanding of the national context for these
services.
Recruitment Timetable
The following is the indicative timetable for this recruitment process:
Closing Date:
Shortlisting by:
Interviews and Assessments:
26th November 2014
28th November 2014
11th & 12th December 2014
If you would like to discuss this role or have any queries, then please contact either
Janet Ditte, Service Manager: Finance Business Support on 0117 903 7697 or Peter
Gillett, Service Director; Finance on 0117 922 2419
NEIGHBOURHOODS
Head of Transformation
BG15: £42,032 - £44,755
Full time, permanent
Based at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Ref: 24941
The Head of Transformation is an exciting new post in one of Britain’s leading regional
museum services, giving you an opportunity to realise a step-change in the
performance of the museum and its future resilience.
You will assume responsibility for increasing all aspects of the museum service’s
financial performance - through working with our catering contractors to improve our
catering offer to managing our retail outlets, managing the fundraising team to meet
increasingly ambitious targets, managing the Digital team to realise our museum
digital leadership role, managing Modern Records and their financial performance and
being responsible for developing new streams of income as well as increasing income
through licensing and on-line activity.
We are committed to a multi-facetted programme of organisational change which
involves putting audiences needs at the heart of the organisation, increasing our
entrepreneurialism and exploring how we can use new technologies to transform our
visitor offer as well as the service; you will drive forward this shift in gear and
perspective as well as project managing different initiatives from staff development
and training to capital projects.
You will be an excellent leader with good commercial experience, strong persuasive
skills and well-honed management skills, ideally gained in the cultural sector.
After you have seen the job paperwork, if you would like an informal chat to discuss
the role in more detail, please call Vivienne Bennett on 0117 922 3566 or Tim Corum
on 0117 922 3575.
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Bristol is an ACE funded Major Partner Museum
Visit us at http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk
Head of Engagement
BG15: £42,032 - £44,755
Full time, permanent
Based at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Ref: 24942
The Head of Engagement is an exciting new post in Bristol City Council’s new Culture
Department.
You will be responsible for the public programme of events and exhibitions at our
different museum venues along with the strong learning and engagement offer for all
ages, the arts development programme for artists and arts organisations and the arts
programme of festivals and events across the city.
We are committed to bringing together these different strands of activity to create an
even better and more joined up cultural offer in Bristol; it is a very exciting time to be
part of this new department and to work with partners across the sector to increase
Bristol’s cultural offer and its international reputation.
You will be an excellent leader with senior management experience, well-honed
people management skills, a good communicator and a good understanding of political
sensitivities in a local authority context.
After you have seen the job paperwork, if you would like an informal chat to discuss
the role in more detail, please call Vivienne Bennett on 0117 922 3566 or Tim Corum
on 0117 922 3575.
Bristol is an ACE funded Major Partner Museum
Visit us at http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk
Operations Manager
BG12: £32,072 - £34,894
Full time, permanent
Based at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Ref: 24943
The Operations Manager is one of the most important roles in Bristol City Council’s
Culture Service, taking strategic responsibility for the operational effectiveness of one
of the UK’s leading museum services.
With responsibility for some of the city’s most important buildings the smooth running
of the service on a daily basis and the development of an excellent visitor experience,
this role is demanding but also very rewarding.
The successful applicant will be an excellent leader with experience in visitor services
and operational management, ideally in the cultural sector. After you have seen the job
paperwork, if you would like an informal chat to discuss the role in more detail, please
call Tim Corum on 0117 933 3575.
Bristol is an ACE funded Major Partner Museum
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Visit us at http://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk
Please note Bristol City Council accepts no
responsibility for the following adverts:
Somerset County Council
Adults and Health
Sedgemoor/West Somerset
ADVANCED PRACTITIONER
37 hours per week
Salary: £31,160 to £34,849 pa
Job Ref No: 6840/SR/BCITY
We are looking for someone with the right knowledge, skills, experience and values to
provide high quality practitioner skills and to assist the management and support of a
large multi-disciplinary community team, providing assessment and care management
in adult social care in the Sedgemoor and West Somerset area.
You will be joining us at a time of significant change in the provision of services, as we
meet the challenges and opportunities presented by the Care Act, and the Children
and Families Act.
The key priorities of the role are:
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To work flexibly and creatively to meet demands within existing resources;
Commitment to development and delivery of high quality services;
Effective and consistent practice to deliver person-centred safeguarding;
To undertake complex assessments with evidence of creative and sound
judgement skills in providing solutions on case work.
Able to support the manager in decision making and development of the team
To assist the organisation to develop high quality person-centred support
planning and to support the team where required.
Able to advise, guide, assist, co-work, mentor and model the best professional
practice of all team members to achieve the highest possible standards and
contribute positively to effective team working.
To work with our strategic providers and other providers in the market place to
develop high quality personalised services for local service users;
To work with voluntary organisations and groups to develop the community
offer for service users to help broaden choice under “Think Local Act Personal”.
You will need to be a registered social care professional Social Worker or
Occupational Therapist and have previous experience in an operational capacity, and
be able to evidence your commitment to ensuring that promoting independence,
choice and control is at the heart of practice.
For an informal discussion please contact Jon Goodwin – Team Manager 0782
3537409 or Chris Denovan – Team Manager 07919540449
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Apply on line at www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs or telephone our recruitment line
01823 356862 (24 hours). Please quote the reference number.
Closing date: 19 November 2014
Interviews: week commencing 1 December 2014
Two new pilot positions to add to our range of
work for children and young people
Survive is a dynamic and innovative agency providing high quality services to women
and children affected by domestic violence and abuse in South Gloucestershire and
Bristol. You will join an excellent staff team of 25 full and part time staff who work hard
to ensure we retain a strong reputation. You will need skills in working with children
and an understanding of domestic abuse, relevant experience in the field or
comparable field and the physical and emotional resilience to fulfil a challenging but
rewarding role.
Sessional Crèche / Play Workers (female only*)
Salary: Hay 11, starting point 14, £16,327 pro rata, £9.30 per hour
Survive is an innovative agency working with women and children who have
experienced domestic violence and abuse. This year we will celebrate our 40th
anniversary. From small beginnings when volunteers set up our first refuge we have
expanded our services to include a range of services which now include preventative
work as well as work with high risk women and children. We have a good reputation
and a staff team of 25 across one main office and 3 refuges.
We are looking to employ flexible Sessional Crèche / Play Workers who have
experience working in an early years setting and are also confident to provide play
opportunities for older children. You will join our play team and provide crèche services
based in the community and occasional play sessions and trips out with the families
that live in our safe houses. It is important that you have a good knowledge of
safeguarding procedures as the children we support have witnessed or experienced
domestic abuse. We are looking for someone who can respond sensitively to the
needs of the children and have an awareness of some of the factors that may impact
on their lives.
Hours: As and when required during office hours, during term time and in the school
holidays. We are especially looking for someone who can cover two crèche sessions
on a Thursday (in two locations).
Closing date: Wednesday 19th November, Midday
Interviews: Monday 1st December
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Survive is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work.
Please email info@survivedv.org.uk to request an application pack or download a pack from our
website www.survivedv.org.uk
*Section 7(2) of 1975 Sex Discrimination act applies
Chief Executive Officer (female only*)
The organisation
We are an independent charity based in South Gloucestershire, founded 40 years ago.
We support and empower women and children who are experiencing, or have
experienced domestic abuse. In recent years we have grown considerably, increased
influencing and preventative work whilst maintaining our core values. Traditionally we
have only worked with women and children, but this is likely to change.
Our CEO is moving on after 5 years, in which she has led the organisation through a
significant period of growth. We now employ 25 women, in addition to a growing team
of volunteers.
Our next Chief Executive will be an inspirational leader who is adept at building and
sustaining effective stakeholder relationships. A strategic vision and a developmental
approach to management will be essential.
The role
Our Chief Executive position is a highly rewarding role, working with a talented and
motivated team and supported by our enthusiastic trustees.
This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to make an immediate impact and
significant contribution to the long term growth of the charity.
The person
The successful candidate will have:
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a vision and passion for making a significant contribution to influencing
domestic abuse service provision, in addition to supporting and empowering
people who use our services
skills in and be committed to the involvement of our service users and ex
service users
senior management and leadership experience including managing
organisational change
an excellent track record of developing and managing various income streams
well developed business planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation skills
excellent people management, relationship building and stakeholder networking
skills
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a high degree of drive, emotional intelligence and resilience
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure
*Section 7(2) of 1975 Sex Discrimination Act applies
For further information and a job application pack please email:
info@survivedv.org.uk
Closing date for applications: Wednesday 19 November 2014 – 12 noon
Interview date: Friday 28 November 2014
No agencies please
Family Support Worker: (female only*)
This post will have a refuge, re-settlement and outreach case load and you will
undertake support planning, safety planning and risk assessments with parents /
carers and their children. You will deliver tailored support to children and young
people on a 1:1 basis and you will support parents to develop an understanding of the
impacts of domestic abuse on children. You will support parents practically and
emotionally, ensuring that they have effective support in place to begin to recover from
their experiences. You will advocate for children and parents at a multi agency level
and will liaise with relevant staff with regards children, young people’s and parent’s
welfare. You will work flexibly across sites, and support other services within the
children’s team, as needed. You will receive a comprehensive induction and will be
supported by a strong and committed staff team.
Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: Hay 8 point 27, £23,836, pro rata £19,326 (30 hrs)
This post is fixed term until 31st March 2015.
Closing date: 12 noon Tuesday 18th November
Interviews: Wednesday 26th November
Survive is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work and
encourages applications from under-represented groups e.g. disabled people, people
from black and minority ethnic groups and lesbians.
Download an application pack from our website www.survivedv.org.uk. Or you can
request a job pack by emailing info@survivedv.org.uk.
*Section 7(2) of 1975 Sex Discrimination Act applies Charity No 1114005
Nursery manager
Tiny Happy People Nursery, Easton Families Project
We are looking for a Nursery Manager for a small voluntary sector nursery for 2 – 4
year olds. EYPS or QTS essential. The nursery has 2 rooms, both with deputy
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managers. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced deputy or room leader to
move forward in their career. This will be a 'hands-on' role, focusing on children's
development, teaching and monitoring children's learning goals, care routines and
supervision and support of a strong staff team - no accounts, finances or buildings to
manage.
Hours: Monday to Friday, Term time only, with the option of 4 or 5 days working.
8.30am – 4.30pm.
Salary: £22,443 pro rata, (£19,111 for term time working), subject to qualifications and
experience.
For an application pack please email Helen at efpadmin@ecfc.org.uk
Application deadline: 28th November 2014
Interviews: 5th December 2014
Appointment subject to enhanced DBS and references.
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