Development Officer - Protecting People

Job Description

Based at Angus House, Orchardbank Business Park, Forfar.

This job is workstyle 5 - Hybrid

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from home for part of your week and spend some time in council buildings to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

This is an exciting opportunity to support the development of partnership working between all agencies involved in the care and protection of vulnerable groups.

Protecting People Angus includes a range of thematic partnerships. This job involves work with Child Protection, Adult Protection, Community Justice and Violence Against Women and Girls partnership areas.

You will work creatively to support the Committees to deliver improvements to make a difference to children, young people, adults and families. You will support the partnerships to hear and act upon the voices of people who use local services, support the development of local and national policy and practice and work in partnership with others including the team leader to deliver effective outcomes for people who live in Angus.

You will also support the workforce with their learning and development needs around protection agendas.

If you would like to discuss the role in advance of applying please contact Emma Falconer, Team Leader falconere@angus.gov.uk.

Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.

Requirements

You must have the ability to become a member of the PVG Scheme.

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.

About Angus Council

In addition, please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.

The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities, care experienced young people and ex-armed forces personnel. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.