Information Officer - Children, Families & Justice

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.

An opportunity has arisen for an Information Officer in in Children, Families and Justice service. The post holder (information officer) working three days per week will support the delivery of Children, Families and Justice (CFJ) Information Governance service ensuring the service meets the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018, and the statutory Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) codes of practice. 

The post holder will support with the ongoing pressures on services due to the increased demand across all areas of information governance business including Subject Access Requests (SAR), Freedom of Information requests (FOI’s), managing and processing Data Breaches, the role also includes managing and processing of complaints to the service, responding to local and national Inquiries requests and supports with records management systems and the provision of guidance material for staff on GDPR related issues. 

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 and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.