Waveney District Council & Suffolk Coastal District Council

Tel: 01502 562111
Email: customerservices@waveney.gov.uk

Where we are and what we do

Waveney District Council’s commitment to improving the lives of its communities and visitors is reflected in our achievements and outcomes.

The Council recognises that there are four cross cutting priority themes that are essential to the improvement of the operation of all the Council’s functions and delivery of the Council’s Strategic Priorities.

These cross cutting approaches to delivery will continue to form the basis of the Improvement Plan within the Council’s Corporate Plan:

• Community needs and aspirations - Provide improving customer access to information and services. Consult, engage and empower Waveney’s citizens and communities, including those ‘harder to hear’, to help shape the future of the district. Understand our diverse communities (including younger and older people and ethnic minorities) and local inequalities. Ensure Council priorities accurately reflect community needs and aspirations. Focus on and support Waveney’s most vulnerable and hard to reach groups where inequality, and poverty is greatest.
• Partnership Working - Maintain an appropriate and ambitious. Sustainable Community Strategy and Local Area Agreement 2 targets. Engage effectively with all partners including the third Sector. Remove the traditional boundaries and barriers associated with different services, partners and organisational working. Makemore effective use of public money and provide increasing value for money as a Council through pooling resources, funding and activities.
• Finance & performance management - Deliver sustainable improvements in the Council’s priority services and outcomes that are important to local people. Deliver improving use of resources, innovation, and value for money (managing finances and resources; and governing the business). Deliver against Local Area Agreement 2, Sustainable Community Strategy, and key national and local priorities.
• People skills and organisational development - Provide the leadership, capacity and capability, from Councillors and Officers, needed to deliver future improvement. Develop a skilled, flexible and high performing workforce, combined with an enhanced community centred culture,that reflects the diversity of local communities.

Jobs

Waveney District Council is an Equal Opportunity Employer, offering a range of family friendly policies and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Waveney District Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. CRB checks are required for relevant posts.