People & Place
Children’s Social Care
Policy Officer
Practice Hub
Ref: G6/OL-37185
Contract Type: 1 Year fixed term contract
Salary: £26,999 - £30,507
Hours: 36.66 per week
Based: Metropolitan House, Hobson Street, OL1 1TT
Closing date: 5th April 2020
Shortlisting: 7th April 2020
Interview Dates: 16th April 2020
Job Description and Person Specification.doc
Role overview
The post is based within Oldham Council’s Children’s Social Care in the Practice Hub Team. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Policy Officer. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who has a strong ability to work as part of a team and to use their own initiative in managing priorities. The successful candidate will take specific responsibility for the review, development, updating and implementation of policies and procedures ensuring best practice. A key part of the role will be to ensure policies are streamlined, compliant with employment law, and meet business and organisational needs.
Oldham is a great place to work, always striving to ensure we create the best environment for our staff, promoting flexible working, working from home and an improved working environment including own desk space. We have moved into a purposefully redeveloped building of high quality within the town centre, this will provide the best quality technology and space for our workers to flourish. We promote an open-door policy with access to permanent management team for guidance and support. Oldham take pride in offering great training opportunities to enable continuous development of practice.
Staff Benefits
- Paid leave (up to 30 days excluding bank holidays dependent on length of service and opportunity to purchase extra leave through the council’s scheme)
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Employee assistance Scheme
- Cycle to work Scheme
- Fit for Oldham Scheme which offers free health and fitness opportunities
- Vectis employee discount – (High Street)
- Essential Car User Allowance for designated posts with fully subsidised parking
- Other designated car user allowance offered with part subsidised parking permit
Key responsibilities
- To support the Quality and Performance Manager in the delivery of statutory information governance compliance, audit, IT infrastructures and systems and quality assurance, ensuring policies and practices adhere to legislative requirements and frameworks.
- To monitor policy, legislative, case law and other developments relevant to Children’s social care and the delivery of operational services and identify any implications for the organisation.
- To undertake research and provide background briefings and other relevant information for elected members, senior managers and external organisations on policy and strategy implications for Children’s social care.
- Ensure robust quality assurance and monitoring mechanisms are in place for the management of existing policies, strategies and procedures relating to operational service delivery.
- To contribute to the development and review of approaches, models, tools, policies and procedures that promote best practice in helping and protecting children.
Key Requirements
- Educated to DIPSW, degree level social work or professional qualifications
- Evidence of professional development
- Working as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills
- Willingness to improve practice
About Us
Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough. Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.
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