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About the BoroughFound in zone 6 with good transport links in and out of London, Kingston is a vibrant and diverse university town which creates the rich sense of community shared across the borough and its Residents. Kingston boasts an idyllic riverside location, good shopping and great restaurants, as well as a mix of modern and historic town centre. Kingston has lots of open parklands and cycle routes that help connect the district town centres into an enjoyable place to live and work.We are passionate about working closely with our residents and vulnerable groups to help them maintain their independence and create a balance between support and independent living.About the Service and TeamThe overarching goal is strengthening neighbourhoods and communities across the area.Team/Service Structure and Functions: The service operates across five core, inter-related functions:<ul><li>Neighbourhoods and Community Empowerment: Focusing on empowering residents to actively shape their communities and enhance local resilience.</li><li>VCSE Sector Development: Providing essential infrastructure support, funding, and partnerships to ensure the Voluntary, Community, and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector can thrive.</li><li>Partnerships and Collaboration: Facilitating joined-up working across all sectors—including with councillors and external partners—to drive shared priorities effectively.</li><li>Grants and Commissioning: Strategically managing funding and commissioning processes to invest specifically in prevention, innovation, and community wellbeing.</li><li>Prevention and Early Intervention: Designing and commissioning preventative approaches aimed at reducing inequalities and building long-term community resilience.</li></ul> About the Role and Our Ideal CandidatePurpose of the job: To coordinate preventative services and community hubs to deliver the best outcomes for Kingston’s residents.What the job actually requires:<ul><li>You'll be the go-to person for coordinating initiatives around the prevention brief, ensuring the Council's preventative agenda moves from planning to on-the-ground success.</li><li>Day-to-day support of the Community Hub model, including scheduling, administration, and making sure the hubs genuinely meet the needs of residents and partners.</li><li>You'll collect, monitor, and report on data for all preventative initiatives, providing the essential evidence to show the impact of the team’s work.</li><li>You’ll spend time establishing and maintaining strong ties with external voluntary, community, and statutory organisations to strengthen resource sharing and partnership working.</li><li>You will provide key administrative, logistical, and organisational support to the Neighbourhood Manager</li></ul>Essential Criteria: To hit the ground running, you must demonstrate excellent analytical, numerical, and communication skills, you'll need to present your findings clearly and negotiate effectively with partners. You must be highly organised, methodical, and detail-oriented with a proven ability to multitask and manage tight deadlines. This role requires an individual who is goal-oriented and comfortable working under pressure.Desirable Criteria: Ideally, you will have prior experience successfully working with a range of key stakeholders including residents, businesses, community groups, and public services. A background in roles that require you to champion digital/new ways of working or promote service innovation would also be highly beneficial. Most importantly, you should be someone who is driven by a strong commitment to service excellence and continuous improvement.Our Offer to YouAs an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We’re constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across however big or small; will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.Employees have access to a wide range of benefits to enable staff to achieve a work life balance, some of which include:<ul><li>A generous annual leave entitlement of 25-32 days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade.</li><li>Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave</li><li>Three volunteering days per year in Kingston</li><li>Hybrid working (dependent on the role)</li><li>Flexible and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks</li><li>Learning and development portal offering a range of courses</li><li>Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres</li><li>Interest free season ticket loans</li><li>Local Government Pension Scheme</li><li>Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme</li><li>Zip car scheme</li><li>Confidential health &amp; wellbeing and counselling support</li></ul>Application ProcessApply online outlining what skills, abilities and experience you can bring which makes you an ideal candidate for this role. Please refer to the requirements outlined in the job profile when completing your application and check your CV details have been uploaded correctly in the relevant sections.We understand and recognise the benefits of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace and are embracing AI where appropriate, to boost our productivity and streamline how we deliver our Council services efficiently; to provide the best possible outcomes for our residents and communities.&nbsp; However, we reserve the right to reject applications where it is apparent that AI-generated content has been used in isolation and without personalised responses. At Kingston&nbsp;we value authenticity and are looking for individuals who can clearly demonstrate their own skills, experience and motivation for the role that they are applying for and embrace and demonstrate our STAR&nbsp;values. Here at Kingston&nbsp;we have core values of Transparency and this is to be demonstrated during the application process and completion of the supporting statement and will be further tested at interview and selection stage for those who progress forward.The closing date is given as a guide. We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received, it is strongly advised that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.&nbsp;As part of our award winning Diversity Programme we anonymise all applications received to reduce conscious and unconscious bias enabling every application to be reviewed on the knowledge, skills and experience shown in your application. We encourage our interview panels to be as diverse as possible (age, cultural, neurodiverse etc.) to reduce bias where possible. We are fully committed to removing barriers and enhancing the diversity of our workforce.Additional InformationWe are in the process of updating our payscales in line with the pay award for NJC, Chief Officers and Chief Executives for April 2025 therefore please take this into account when viewing the salary on this position.We are proud to be a diverse and welcoming Borough and we strive to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve, and instil a sense of belonging in our staff. We celebrate and respect differences and appreciate the value of having a diverse workforce, therefore we welcome applications from under represented groups.To support our workers and their families we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement forums and inclusive staff networks who help drive our diversity agenda.We are also proud to be a disability confident employer and guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for a role. As an accredited London Living Wage Employer all our employees are guaranteed the London Living Wage regardless of their length or type of contract.The UK has a points-based immigration system affecting EU and Non-EU workers and sponsorship requirements. We advise checking the <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/new-immigration-system-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank">GOV.UK website</a> for right to work guidance. Sponsorship availability varies and is subject to eligibility requirements and budget limitations. As a result, we cannot guarantee sponsorship for all roles and will evaluate sponsorship requests on a case-by-case basis.





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Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames

Prevention in Communities Coordinator

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Please apply online via the 'Apply online' button which will take you to the Applicant Tracking System ('ATS') where, once you have applied, you can log on to your account to view the status of your application.&nbsp;
Please note, we do not accept CVs submitted without a fully completed online application form.
Please contact Recruitment Services on 01784 444263 (24hr answer phone) or email <a href="mailto:recruitment@spelthorne.gov.uk" target="_blank">recruitment@spelthorne.gov.uk</a> if you are having difficulty applying online.
Civil Enforcement Officer
£27, 682 - £30,619 pa
36 Hours per week
This role is expected to provide an efficient and effective service of parking enforcement in our borough car parks, in order to minimise Parking Contraventions through the issue of penalty charge notices in appropriate cases, in accordance with the Council’s objectives, policies and the Parking Order.
The candidate will hold the relevant qualification to carry out Civil Enforcement (Level 2 Award, City and Guilds), be conversant with Civil Enforcement legislation and procedures, and be polite and capable of representing a positive and helpful image for Spelthorne Borough Council to our residents and customers.
The ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for customer facing posts.&nbsp; These posts fall within the scope of the Code of Practice on English language requirement for public sector workers.&nbsp; The Council, therefore, has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. If you have any queries or would like to discuss this further, please contact Human Resources.
Please note as part of the employment checks this post will be subject to a standard Disclosure &amp; Barring Service (DBS) check.
Spelthorne Borough Council use the Microsoft Authenticator app as a secure way of accessing our network.&nbsp; Successful candidates will be required to use their own mobile device to download and use Authenticator.
In return, we can offer excellent conditions of service with a benefits’ package that includes flexible working hours, pension scheme and at least 23 days’ paid leave per year (pro rata for part time).&nbsp;
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Johnson Sunny, Senior Civil Enforcement Officer on <a href="mailto:j.sunny@spelthorne.gov.uk" target="_blank">j.sunny@spelthorne.gov.uk</a> or 01784 44 4291.
Closing date: Sunday 2 November 2025
Interview date: Wednesday 12 November
To apply please use the ‘apply online’ button below.
CVs can only be accepted in support of a completed application form.
Unfortunately, we are unable to reply to all candidates.&nbsp; If we have not contacted, you within 3 weeks of the closing date then your application has been unsuccessful.
All shortlisted applicants will be contacted via email after the closing date.
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Spelthorne Borough Council

Civil Enforcement Officer

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Please apply online via the link provided.
Please note, we do not accept CVs submitted without a fully completed online application form.



We have a fantastic brand-new opportunity available for a Connect to Work Programme Manager to join our proactive Economic Development team here at Wokingham Borough Council, on a full time, permanent basis.
As a Connect to Work Programme Manager, you will be responsible for leading the contract and performance management for the Prime Contractor delivering the Connect to Work programme across Berkshire, acting as the primary point of contact for both the Prime Contractor and any subcontractors involved.
Whilst this role is employed by Wokingham Borough Council, this is a Berkshire wide programme of support and as such this role is required to work across all of Berkshire with extensive engagement across all 6 Local Authorities and a variety of stakeholders.&nbsp;
This is a pivotal role in the successful delivery of Berkshire Connect to Work and will provide oversight and contract management to ensure we achieve the very best for our residents.
Connect to Work is a new employment programme forming a key strand of the Governments Get Britain Working plans, supporting people to find and keep work.&nbsp; With a focus on tackling economic inactivity and aligning employment, training and health activity together to provide a holistic approach. For more information: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/connect-to-work" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/connect-to-work</a>.&nbsp;
&nbsp;Benefits: 
Not only is this an excellent opportunity, but it’s a fantastic time to join our team. You will receive an extensive range of employee benefits including:
⭐&nbsp;A generous annual leave entitlement of days 31 (rising to 36 days after 5 years continued local government service), plus Bank Holidays
⭐&nbsp;An excellent local government pension scheme
⭐&nbsp;An employee assistance programme including 24/7 wellbeing helpline
⭐&nbsp;A range of local &amp; lifestyle discounts
⭐&nbsp;Use of a free onsite gym (located at Shute End office)
⭐&nbsp;Salary sacrifice car &amp; cycle to work schemes
⭐&nbsp;And much more!
Key responsibilities: 
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<li>Lead on contract and performance management for the Prime Contractor selected to deliver Connect to Work across Berkshire. Acting as the main liaison for the Prime Contractor and any subcontractors engaged</li>
<li>Establish and maintaining strong partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders from the voluntary and health sector aligning programme to local objectives and ensuring strong referral pathways are established</li>
<li>Co-ordinate the integration of Connect to Work across the Berkshire Boroughs by overseeing the Integration Leads in each LA, bring them together for regular meetings and working to a collective action plan.</li>
<li>Develop, implement and maintain systems and processes to maximize service quality and compliance. This includes undertaking a range of monitoring and performance meetings, analysing data and reports and escalating any concerns to the wider Accountable Body Management group</li>
<li>To establish a Connect to Work Partnership Board, preparing and presenting reports to establish a transparent regular flow of information</li>
<li>Take an active role in representing Berkshire Connect to Work at various stakeholder meetings, confidently presenting updates on the programme and driving employer and referral engagement</li>
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Candidate requirement: 
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<li>Extensive experience of working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders</li>
<li>An understanding of Individual Placement support and/or Supported Employment Quality Framework (SEQF) and the Fidelity Quality Assurance models</li>
<li>Experience of successful contract management with demonstrative ability to maintain a quality service through performance management</li>
<li>Excellent communication, influencing and negotiating skills</li>
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Our Area
Wokingham Borough is set in the heart of Berkshire with excellent transport links to Reading and central London. Our area comprises of a vibrant and historical market town, attractive villages, and miles of beautiful countryside.
We’re home to a range of high performing schools, a host of international businesses and an incredible community. We have a strong local economy with accelerated growth, a range of excellent public facilities and low levels of crime, offering an exceptional quality of life.
If you’re interested in this exciting opportunity, click the link below and apply today!
Or for an informal discussion, please contact&nbsp;Nicky Phillips, Employment &amp; Skills Service Manager - <a href="mailto:nicky.phillips@wokingham.gov.uk" target="_blank">nicky.phillips@wokingham.gov.uk</a>
Closing Date:&nbsp;26th October 2025, 11pm
Interview Date:&nbsp;TBC
If your application is shortlisted for an interview, you will be required to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at that stage. Additionally, successful candidates must present proof upon receiving a job offer.&nbsp;
Please note that all offers are conditional and subject to the satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.
Please be aware that we will be reviewing the applications we receive on a daily basis, and we reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified.
Wokingham Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff, other workers and volunteers to share this commitment. Wokingham is an equal opportunities employer.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to respond to every applicant individually.
If you do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the application closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.
We appreciate your interest in joining Wokingham Borough Council and thank you for taking the time to apply.

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