THE DETAILS:
- Location: County,
- Subject:
- Contract: Temporary
- Salary Type: Not Supplied
- Salary Range: Not Supplied
- Language: Welsh
- Closing Date: 14 May, 2024 12:00 AM
This job application date has now expired.
Details
Job Advertisement
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pack
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.
( Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)
For further information about this post please contact Ellen Rowlands on 01286 679007
Secondments will be considered for this post
Interview date to be confirmed.
Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel: 01286 679076
E-Mail: Swyddi@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, TUESDAY, 14/05/2024.
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.
Person Specification
Personal attributesEssential
• Strong customer focus.
• The ability to consistently and constructively challenge the "status quo".
• The ability to work effectively to challenging timescales.
• Organised, hardworking and committed.
• A flexible approach to working hours.
• A positive and constructive attitude towards removing barriers.
• Political sensitivity and effective interpersonal skills.
• Obvious creativity and motivation to lead the work of the Team.
• Strong and effective team player
Desirable
-
Qualifications and relevant trainingEssential
• Degree and/or professional management qualification.
• Evidence of continuous personal development.
Desirable
• Higher management / leadership qualification
Relevant experienceEssential
• Experience of managing and monitoring budgets and preparing relevant grant applications.
• The ability to prioritise work programmes
• Experience of managing effective performance within the context of public services.
• Experience of preparing and submitting reports to committees.
• Experience of establishing and managing project groups.
• Preparing minutes and providing written guidance for others
Desirable
-
Skills and specialist knowledgeEssential
• Knowledge and understanding of the main issues and the current educational and legal developments facing schools and authorities in the ALN and Inclusion field.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Child Safeguarding area / procedures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Skills and understanding of project and change management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Leadership and management skills
• Higher computer skills
Desirable
-
Language requirementsListening and Speaking - Higher
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.
Reading and Understanding - Higher
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.
Writing - Higher
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).
Job Description
Purpose of the post
• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd and Anglesey are central to everything we do.
• Support the Inclusion Manager to ensure that the Service fulfils its full potential.
• Coordinate improvements in accordance with the instructions of the Inclusion Manager.
• Coordinate the work of developing agreed outcomes that both counties will work towards and the objectives to achieve them.
• Coordinate the work of ensuring effective management of realising those outcomes.
Responsibility for functions
• Any budget, resources and staff associated with grants.
• Any funding selected by the Inclusion Manager
• Manage contracts as required including Service standard agreements with other parts of both authorities
Main duties
Work as part of the Gwynedd and Anglesey ALN&I Service to develop/implement specific work areas to achieve the priority areas of the Inclusion Service
This includes:
• Providing executive support to the Inclusion Service
• Producing high standard documents (including reports, discussion/evidence papers and reviews) and ensuring that they are appropriate for internal and external audiences.
• Monitoring exclusions and school movements by giving a detailed attention to individuals who are permanently excluded and that they are enrolled at a subsequent school.
• Developing and maintaining a Children who are missing in Education system by coordinating and attending multi-agency meetings.
• Ensuring that the database of the pupils who receive the Service's support is up to date.
• Responsibility for preparing and submitting comprehensive monitoring reports for the Service to report on Welsh Government grant budgets.
• Preparing business plans with team leaders and responsibility for monitoring plans.
• Responsibility for creating and monitoring a process to supervise all the Unit's expenditure.
• Supporting the manager to manage finance effectively and being a point of contact for enquiries from the finance department in the manager's absence.
• Leading on coordinating responses to enquiries for information regarding services provided, including applications submitted under the Freedom of Information Act
• Undertaking background research and draft reports at the request of the Manager including providing briefing notes as required.
• Taking responsibility for work to identify key trends in various fields by providing regular support and updates and look at good practice in other establishments.
• Supporting the Team Leaders to ensure that performance challenge measures are prioritised and completed.
• Supporting the Manager to resolve any barriers that the teams cannot resolve.
• Responding to correspondence and enquiries associated with projects, either verbally, by phone, e-mail or letter.
Quality
• Collaborating with other teams in the Department to ensure a coordinated approach to oversee and share attainment data and information effectively across the service and the Department as appropriate.
• Maintaining close working arrangements with the Department's and schools' resource management provision.
• Ensuring that resources are used effectively.
• Taking delegated responsibility for managing allocated financial budgets ensuring that the team uses the resources available to meet service requirements in a flexible and creative way.
• Monitoring and evaluating the results of the service on an ongoing basis against agreed standards, raising any issues / problems with the Inclusion Services Manager
Co-ordinate training programmes
• Providing an effective and professional coordination service of a high standard for the Service's training programmes.
• Ensuring that skills are tracked and monitored, and that training is provided in a way that is effective, cost-effective and in accordance with agreements.
• Coordinating the provision of internal and external training to school officers and staff.
• Administering the programme and the tutors' workforce, training data base.
• Responding to enquiries by offering information and ensuring that the correct processes are followed.
• Contributing to the evaluation process and reporting on the quality of the training packages.
• Undertaking any other equivalent and reasonable duty which corresponds with the salary level and responsibility level of the post.
Responsible for self-development.
• Ensuring compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
• Operating within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
• Responsibility for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management standards and guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
• Commitment to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council's Carbon Footprint;
• Undertaking any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
• Responsible for reporting any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
Special circumstances
-
Job Advertisement
Gwynedd Council offers an attractive employment package, for more information please click on this Information Pack
Gwynedd Council operates internally through the medium of Welsh, and offers all its services bilingually. The applicant will be required to reach the linguistic level noted as one of the essential skills in the Person Specification.
We encourage everyone who applies for a job with Gwynedd Council to submit job applications in Welsh or bilingually.
( Applications submitted in English only or Welsh only will always be treated equally, but we ask applicants to consider carefully what the linguistic requirements of the job in question is and if it would be more appropriate to submit an application in Welsh.)
For further information about this post please contact Ellen Rowlands on 01286 679007
Secondments will be considered for this post
Interview date to be confirmed.
Application forms and further details available from Support Service, Gwynedd Council, Council Offices, Caernarfon, LL55 1SH
Tel: 01286 679076
E-Mail: Swyddi@gwynedd.llyw.cymru
CLOSING DATE: 10.00 AM, TUESDAY, 14/05/2024.
The Council will request a Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service for the successful candidate.
If you are successful to be short listed for an interview you will be contacted by E-MAIL using the address provided on your application form. You need to ensure that you check your email regularly.
Person Specification
Personal attributesEssential
• Strong customer focus.
• The ability to consistently and constructively challenge the "status quo".
• The ability to work effectively to challenging timescales.
• Organised, hardworking and committed.
• A flexible approach to working hours.
• A positive and constructive attitude towards removing barriers.
• Political sensitivity and effective interpersonal skills.
• Obvious creativity and motivation to lead the work of the Team.
• Strong and effective team player
Desirable
-
Qualifications and relevant trainingEssential
• Degree and/or professional management qualification.
• Evidence of continuous personal development.
Desirable
• Higher management / leadership qualification
Relevant experienceEssential
• Experience of managing and monitoring budgets and preparing relevant grant applications.
• The ability to prioritise work programmes
• Experience of managing effective performance within the context of public services.
• Experience of preparing and submitting reports to committees.
• Experience of establishing and managing project groups.
• Preparing minutes and providing written guidance for others
Desirable
-
Skills and specialist knowledgeEssential
• Knowledge and understanding of the main issues and the current educational and legal developments facing schools and authorities in the ALN and Inclusion field.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Child Safeguarding area / procedures.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Skills and understanding of project and change management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Leadership and management skills
• Higher computer skills
Desirable
-
Language requirementsListening and Speaking - Higher
Able to follow a conversation or discussion through the medium of Welsh and English on a professional level and discuss general day to day topics in the field in order to present information and express opinions.
Reading and Understanding - Higher
Able to understand standard written Welsh and English; both formal and informal.
Writing - Higher
Present written information confidently by letter, more detailed and technical report formats, and respond to written requests conveying information, ideas and opinion in Welsh and English (help is available to check the work).
Job Description
Purpose of the post
• Ensure that the people of Gwynedd and Anglesey are central to everything we do.
• Support the Inclusion Manager to ensure that the Service fulfils its full potential.
• Coordinate improvements in accordance with the instructions of the Inclusion Manager.
• Coordinate the work of developing agreed outcomes that both counties will work towards and the objectives to achieve them.
• Coordinate the work of ensuring effective management of realising those outcomes.
Responsibility for functions
• Any budget, resources and staff associated with grants.
• Any funding selected by the Inclusion Manager
• Manage contracts as required including Service standard agreements with other parts of both authorities
Main duties
Work as part of the Gwynedd and Anglesey ALN&I Service to develop/implement specific work areas to achieve the priority areas of the Inclusion Service
This includes:
• Providing executive support to the Inclusion Service
• Producing high standard documents (including reports, discussion/evidence papers and reviews) and ensuring that they are appropriate for internal and external audiences.
• Monitoring exclusions and school movements by giving a detailed attention to individuals who are permanently excluded and that they are enrolled at a subsequent school.
• Developing and maintaining a Children who are missing in Education system by coordinating and attending multi-agency meetings.
• Ensuring that the database of the pupils who receive the Service's support is up to date.
• Responsibility for preparing and submitting comprehensive monitoring reports for the Service to report on Welsh Government grant budgets.
• Preparing business plans with team leaders and responsibility for monitoring plans.
• Responsibility for creating and monitoring a process to supervise all the Unit's expenditure.
• Supporting the manager to manage finance effectively and being a point of contact for enquiries from the finance department in the manager's absence.
• Leading on coordinating responses to enquiries for information regarding services provided, including applications submitted under the Freedom of Information Act
• Undertaking background research and draft reports at the request of the Manager including providing briefing notes as required.
• Taking responsibility for work to identify key trends in various fields by providing regular support and updates and look at good practice in other establishments.
• Supporting the Team Leaders to ensure that performance challenge measures are prioritised and completed.
• Supporting the Manager to resolve any barriers that the teams cannot resolve.
• Responding to correspondence and enquiries associated with projects, either verbally, by phone, e-mail or letter.
Quality
• Collaborating with other teams in the Department to ensure a coordinated approach to oversee and share attainment data and information effectively across the service and the Department as appropriate.
• Maintaining close working arrangements with the Department's and schools' resource management provision.
• Ensuring that resources are used effectively.
• Taking delegated responsibility for managing allocated financial budgets ensuring that the team uses the resources available to meet service requirements in a flexible and creative way.
• Monitoring and evaluating the results of the service on an ongoing basis against agreed standards, raising any issues / problems with the Inclusion Services Manager
Co-ordinate training programmes
• Providing an effective and professional coordination service of a high standard for the Service's training programmes.
• Ensuring that skills are tracked and monitored, and that training is provided in a way that is effective, cost-effective and in accordance with agreements.
• Coordinating the provision of internal and external training to school officers and staff.
• Administering the programme and the tutors' workforce, training data base.
• Responding to enquiries by offering information and ensuring that the correct processes are followed.
• Contributing to the evaluation process and reporting on the quality of the training packages.
• Undertaking any other equivalent and reasonable duty which corresponds with the salary level and responsibility level of the post.
Responsible for self-development.
• Ensuring compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council's Health and Safety Policy.
• Operating within the Council's policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
• Responsibility for managing information in accordance with the Council's information management standards and guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
• Commitment to reducing the Council's carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council's Carbon Footprint;
• Undertaking any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job.
• Responsible for reporting any concern or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
Special circumstances
-