Job Applications. Candidate Information Pack Community Teams

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1 Job Applications Candidate Information Pack Community Teams

2 OPPORTUNITIES IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL We are looking for high performing, enthusiastic and technically sound individuals with excellent customer service and communication skills. DO YOU... Want a new and exciting challenge? Enjoy working in a busy and forward-thinking environment? Have a passion for people and customers? Get out of bed each day motivated and determined to make a positive difference? Want to contribute to service and corporate development projects? If your answers are YES, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you. In return, you can expect to work as part of a strong team, receive regular professional supervision and have access to quality training, developing your interests, expanding your knowledge and becoming an expert at what you do. You will be supported by an outward looking leadership team who can, and do, draw on a wide range of professional and specialist support to ensure excellence across the service. This is a fantastic opportunity for career minded individuals to take a pro-active role, expanding and developing your skills, within a high performing local authority. As a place, Huntingdonshire offers you the best of both worlds- located conveniently for national road and rail connections and also offering secluded countryside and beautiful villages and historic market towns. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites. Huntingdonshire District Council s ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. This includes being committed to providing an employee reward and benefits package which will attract, retain, motivate and reward our employees. THE ROLES The Community service in Huntingdonshire provides a range of customer-facing services across the whole district. We provide the full range of environmental health services between our Business and People teams, community resilience services including community development and community enforcement, business support services and CCTV. We are currently seeking to recruit team members who demonstrate the desire to be part of a team that is able to think and act outside of the norm, and will consider more general experiences and attitudes as much as technical competency. Details of the roles are reflected the role profiles which are included in the pack. Where appropriate, we will appoint suitably qualified and experienced candidates and are happy to consider applicants who wish to work either full time or more flexibly, or those wishing to develop skills and experiences. 2

3 ABOUT US As a place, Huntingdonshire offers you the best of both worlds - located conveniently for national road and rail connections and also offering secluded countryside and beautiful villages and historic market towns. Over 50% of our households are classed as being in a rural location. We combine our rich history with a wide range of cutting edge employment opportunities and the district offers housing options to suit every taste, from vintage village settings to ultra-modern or family friendly choices on the new housing developments that are emerging across Huntingdonshire. Within the borough we have award winning parks, open spaces and listed heritage sites, riverside walks, well-established and emerging shopping experiences and a multitude of visitor attractions; literally from A (abbey) to Z (zoo). Historic map of Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire is a relatively large district council area, covering some 350 square miles situated on the western edge of Cambridgeshire, bordering with Northamptonshire. The district has a population of approximately 175,000 and has significant vision for housing expansion under current plans. The district is characterised by the historic market towns of Huntingdon, Ramsey, St Ives and St Neots and open rural areas with myriad small and picturesque villages. The whole district offers quick and easy access to Cambridge city centre with various towns and villages being served by road, rail and the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway. Huntingdonshire is well-served by national transport links, sitting on the intersection of the A1 and A14 roads, on the main railway line to Kings Cross, within 20 mins drive of London Stansted airport and 40 mins drive of London Luton airport. 3

4 The towns of Huntingdonshire 4

5 HUNTINGDONSHIRE DISTRICT COUNCIL The Council has embarked on an ambitious transformation programme, MOSAIC, aimed at improving our service performance and outcomes in order to best meet the changing needs of our communities. We are focusing on a number of workstreams including the customer; our people; business; commercial; and work-smart in order to drive this whole-council programme of improvement. In the Community division, our vision is the provision of a suite of services which are performing to the best of their ability, are customer-centred and support all of our communities, including providing support to our business community through effective and proportionate regulation. HDC Headquarters. Pathfinder House, Huntingdon We have recently restructured Community services into two main areas: People and Business, each focussing on different elements. The People Team includes Environmental Protection, Community Development and Community Enforcement while the Business Team covers Food Hygiene, Health and Safety and Licensing. A combined Business Support team provides administrative support to the whole service. Within these teams, we encourage staff to develop and maintain specialisms but we also offer the opportunity to develop and maintain skill sets in different subject areas to promote staff learning and service resilience. 5

6 WORKING HERE Our staff benefit from modern office space, mobile and flexible working arrangements and a commitment to provide continuous development opportunities. A flexi-time scheme allows staff to programme their work in a way which fits in with family life and we are open to flexible work arrangements including job share, part time work and annualised hours working. We are in the process of changing our IT systems to allow fully mobile working across the whole district. All staff have the opportunity to make a difference and contribute to our improvement programme through a combination of service-specific projects and corporate workstreams. This can range from working on in-service LEAN reviews to modernise and streamline procedures to contributing to projects which affect the whole organisation. We take personal development seriously, with every staff member having a regularly reviewed performance and appraisal plan which explicitly shows the development needs and how these are to be met. Team members are given the opportunity to develop in accordance with the requirements of their roles through a combination of mentoring, in-house training, external courses and professional qualifications. ABOUT YOU You will hold a relevant degree and will already have strong experience but will be ambitious to develop your skills and experience further. This might be achieving full EHRB qualification and registration or by further professional development which will equip you for both specialised work in the team and for contributing to wider corporate development projects. You will be able to contribute to the full range of work in a small, busy team and will be willing and able to share expertise and to learn from the experience of the other team members. You will be comfortable working independently and collaboratively. You will be a skilled communicator and negotiator and you will be able to use these skills in dealing with the public, with businesses and with our partner organisations. You will have the ability to contribute to organisational development projects, both inside the service and on the wider corporate agenda. Most of all, your focus will be on achieving positive outcomes for our customers - you will want to solve problems! 6

7 Community Management Team WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU 7