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You will receive an extensive range of employee benefits including:</p>\n<p>⭐ A generous annual leave entitlement of 31 days (rising to 36 days after 5 years continued local government service), plus Bank Holidays</p>\n<p>⭐ An excellent local government pension scheme</p>\n<p>⭐ Use of a free onsite gym (located at Shute End office)</p>\n<p>⭐ Salary sacrifice car & cycle to work schemes</p>\n<p>⭐ A range of local & lifestyle discounts</p>\n<p>⭐ An employee assistance programme including 24/7 wellbeing helpline</p>\n<p>⭐ And much more</p>\n<p><strong>Key responsibilities: </strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manage the soft facilities management services to ensure the safe and effective operation of the Council’s headquarters building and satellite offices within the Borough, including Health & Safety compliance</li>\n<li>Manage the Facilities team, ensuring a high-quality service is delivered with excellent customer service</li>\n<li>Manage budgets and small capital projects within the corporate estate</li>\n<li>Utilising best practice and experience, contribute to plans for the Council’s future headquarters project</li>\n<li>Develop and manage the Buildings Managers network, creating a supportive and informative environment and network where Building Managers can be supported, learn and develop skills</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Candidate requirements: </strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Qualification, and/or significant knowledge and experience of delivering a facilities management function, or within a related property area of work</li>\n<li>Knowledge of facilities management and health and safety issues, legislation and best practice</li>\n<li>Experience of working in a front-facing, customer service environment and best practice in customer management</li>\n<li>Well-developed written and verbal communication skills</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Our Area:</strong></p>\n<p>Wokingham Borough is set in the heart of Berkshire with excellent transport links to Reading and central London. 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(Terms and Conditions apply – please refer to candidate pack for more information.)</li>\n<li>Career development through internal and external training opportunities. </li>\n<li>A great office location next to travel links and Bracknell Forest’s thriving town centre. </li>\n<li>Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing. </li>\n<li>Sports and Social Club.</li>\n<li>Staff dental and health plans. </li>\n<li>Discounted leisure centre and gym membership. </li>\n<li>Supermarket discount. </li>\n</ul>\n<p>*(pro rata for part time)</p>\n<h4>Our Values</h4>\n<p>At Bracknell Forest Council our values define who we are and what is important to us. Our core values are inclusive, ambitious, and always learning. These values influence the way we work with each other and the way we serve our residents and engage with our communities. We make our values real by demonstrating them in how we behave every day. If you are excited about joining a diverse team that celebrates learning and strives for excellence, we would love to hear from you. </p>\n<p>We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process for all applicants. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview, please let us know by contacting <a href=\"mailto:recruitment@bracknell-forest.gov.uk\">recruitment@bracknell-forest.gov.uk</a>. We will work with you to support you throughout the process.  </p>\n<h4>Interview date </h4>\n<p>Interviews will be held on 13 May 2025</p>\n<p>Interviews will be conducted in person, providing candidates with the chance to personally meet the team and experience our work environment.</p>\n<p>We will be reviewing applications regularly and reserve the right to close the advert early if suitable candidates are identified. 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We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy and successful lives.</p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\"> </p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\">About the role</p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\">We currently have vacancies for experienced Team Managers to join our Together for Families Teams, part of the Family Help & Safeguarding service. We firmly believe that relationship-based social work makes a real difference to the lives of children, young people and their families, and our generic Together for Families Teams focus on delivering outstanding support to families.</p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\"> </p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\">Our Together for Families (TfF) Teams have been developed in order to allow children and families to benefit from the continuity of having only one social worker, and to form a relationship with that worker that promotes sustained positive change. The benefit for our social workers in this practice model is the ability to form consistent, meaningful relationship with children and their families; the opportunity to learn and to develop new skills whilst working across the journey of the child in statutory social work; to have lower caseloads, and a supportive environment that makes relationship-based social work flourish.</p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\"><br class=\"customHTML\">Our Together for Families teams work with children during S.17 (Children Act, 1989) single assessments, S.47 child protection investigations, as well as working with children subject to Child In Need Plans, Child Protection Plans, pre-proceedings, proceedings and those becoming looked after.</p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\"> </p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\">As a Team Manager you will be responsible for leading and managing a small team of 5 social workers, and taking new cases from our Children’s Single Point of Access Team (MASH) on a 9 week duty cycle. You will provide passionate and inspiring leadership to your Team, providing regular high-quality supervision and support, and will ensure that the child’s lived experience is at the very heart of everything that is done. At Brighter Futures for Children, we have a culture of providing high support and high challenge, in the very best interests of children. We are immensely proud to be growing and developing our staff in Family Help & Safeguarding service and now benefit from having a very stable workforce where over 90% of our staff are permanent, our reliance on agency cover is low, and caseloads are mostly manageable. We need skilled and committed people to join our Team and support our delivery within this relationship-based practice model and make a real difference to our children and families in Reading. In return we offer a very competitive salary and benefits package, a recruitment and retention allowance, generous pension, relocation package, annual leave up to 26 days, and excellent career progression opportunities. Whether you want to develop your skills and experience as a social worker or step into more senior roles including management, we offer a comprehensive range of training and learning opportunities to do so, making a commitment to investing in you. At Brighter Futures for Children, we invest in the well-being of our staff too, and know that we can’t deliver excellent outcomes for families if our staff are also not exceptionally well supported. We really do like to “grow our own” and are immensely proud at how so many of our staff have stayed working with us, and have been supported to progress in their careers, including to more senior roles. If you like the sound of this, please get in touch with us today for a confidential discussion about the post.</p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\"> </p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\">For more information about the role, please read the job description and person specification.</p>\n<p class=\"customHTML\"><br class=\"customHTML\">Our offer<br class=\"customHTML\">We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to put your ideas across. 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You will be the strategic and operational lead for the management and development of children’s homes in line with the Placement Sufficiency Strategy and statutory regulations set out in children's Homes Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards. As part of the Children’s Services Senior Management Team, you will share responsibility for driving and implementing the strategic and operational vision of both Brighter Futures for Children and the Council and for successfully managing the cultural change required to achieve excellent service delivery. </p>\n<p>You will be responsible for delivering statutory services as required for children’s homes at Brighter Futures for Children. This includes: <br>• Cressingham and Pinecroft Short Breaks <br>• 3 x Children’s Residential Care Homes <br>Your duties will involve working closely with court timetables and undertaking viability assessments. You will contribute to collective leadership of the Company working collaboratively with members, services across the Company and council, partners and stakeholders to deliver Company’s priorities. Model and embed the Company's values and behaviours, helping to achieve our commitment to be an outstanding children’s services delivering great value for its residents and businesses.</p>\n<p>For more information about the role, please read the job description and person specification. </p>\n<p><br>Our offer<br>We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to put your ideas across. Innovation and ambition are strongly encouraged, and you’ll get a great feel for that working in our friendly and collaborative environment.</p>\n<p>A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:<br>•    Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution<br>•    Incremental holidays starting with 26 days plus public holidays (rising to 33 after 10 years’ service)<br>•    Discounted Child Care (on site nursery)<br>•    Cycle to work scheme.<br>•    Season train ticket loans<br>•    Salary Sacrifice Car Lease Scheme<br>•    A range of local shopping discounts</p>\n<p>Inclusion and Diversity<br>We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. </p>\n<p><br>We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.</p>\n<p>Asking for Adjustments<br>Brighter Futures for Children is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.<br>If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please let us know.</p>\n<p>Closing date: 4 May 2025<br>Interview date: To be confirmed</p>\n<p>We look forward to hearing from you!</p>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£60,146 - £65,941 per annum","publishDate":"2025-04-16T14:01:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-05-04T14:01:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.jobsgopublic.com/logos/logos/9de251c4-41e1-4de1-9906-bb232874e096.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"2089fa65-7739-49c4-893c-bdc242fa0d4c","title":"Head of People and Operations","employer":"PACT (Parents and Children Together)","department":"","location":"Reading","locationType":2,"description":"<p>Full time 37 hours, permanent position <br>Salary in the range £56,869 - £69,506 per annum</p>\n<p>Based in Reading -  hybrid working available (1-2 days in the office)</p>\n<p><strong>About us</strong></p>\n<p>PACT is a supportive and respectful charity where people are genuinely passionate about what we do and are at the heart of everything we can achieve together. </p>\n<p>We change lives by building and nurturing adoptive families and empowering women, children and parents to rebuild after trauma and embrace a positive future.</p>\n<p>Established in 1911, we are now one of the UK’s leading charities in its field dedicated to finding secure and loving families for children waiting to be adopted, continued support through therapeutic services, supporting and empowering women facing multiple disadvantages and the recovery of children affected by domestic abuse.</p>\n<p><strong>The role</strong></p>\n<p>We are looking for an experienced Head of People and Operations who is passionate about our work and who will flourish in a values-based culture founded on professionalism, positivity, innovation and a genuine desire to help others.  </p>\n<p>Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Senior Management team, this is a key role that leads a dedicated team responsible for ensuring that the charity has exceptional people and providing them with the necessary resources and equipment to excel in their roles and thrive.</p>\n<p>Committed to delivering excellence, you will seek opportunities to enhance the services you and the team provide across the charity and will be a champion for people’s wellbeing and a culture of inclusion.</p>\n<p><strong>About you </strong></p>\n<p>To flourish in this role, you will need to be a confident and trusted CIPD qualified practitioner, who has significant experience of working in a generalist HR role at a senior management level.  You will need excellent knowledge and practical application of employment legislation.</p>\n<p>A skilled and considerate communicator, you will enjoy managing, motivating and coaching others as well as working collaboratively to find pragmatic solutions to issues and challenges. </p>\n<p>Given the size of the charity and the team, you will be comfortable in a dynamic role where no day is the same; moving easily from strategic to operational tasks and ways of working. </p>\n<p>Whilst you do not need to be an expert in offices services and facilities and IT systems and applications, a general understanding and desire to learn would be an advantage.</p>\n<p>If this sounds like you then <a href=\"https://www.pactcharity.org/careers/current-opportunities/\">apply today</a> to join an amazing organisation and be part of something that is truly special.</p>\n<p>If you would like to arrange an informal discussion about the role, please contact Natalie Derkatsch, Executive Assistant to the CEO at <a href=\"mailto:natalie.derkatsch@pactcharity.org\">natalie.derkatsch@pactcharity.org</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>Closing date</strong>: noon, Wednesday 30 April 2025</p>\n<p><strong>Interview dates</strong>: Monday 12<sup> </sup>May, Wednesday 14<sup> </sup>May and Tuesday 20<sup> </sup>May 2025.</p>\n<p>Other roles you may have experience of could include: Head of Human Resources, Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Senior HR Manager, HR Consultant, Head of Operations, Head of Support Services  </p>\n<p><em>Safeguarding is at the heart of everything we do at PACT. 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These values influence the way we work with each other and the way we serve our residents and engage with our communities. We make our values real by demonstrating them in how we behave every day. If you’re excited about joining a diverse team that celebrates learning and strives for excellence, we’d love to hear from you. </p>\n<p>We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process for all applicants. 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Please see our candidate pack for more details.</p>\n<p>Bracknell Forest Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect everyone employed with us to share this commitment.  All successful candidates for this role will be subject to a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) check as part of our pre-employment checks process.</p>\n<p><strong>We can only accept applications from candidates currently residing in the UK. </strong></p>\n<p>Candidates currently residing in the UK who require sponsorship to work are encouraged to assess their eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) based on the relevant criteria. Please be aware that sponsorship availability varies and is subject to eligibility requirements and budget limitations. 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£50,788 - £56,075 per annum, plus benefits

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