Planning Officer

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.

You will work within the Angus Health and Social Care Partnership Improvement and Development service.

You will be responsible for supporting improvement and development work within the Angus Health and Social Care Partnership in line with the priorities of the AHSCP Strategic Framework, including supporting programmes, projects and the development and implementation of improvement plans in line with service and project reviews and statutory duties.

This role will predominately focus on reviewing and improving debt management processes across AHSCP, ensuring alignment with relevant stakeholders to deliver more consistent, effective, and efficient approaches to reducing debt. It will also prioritise strengthening early intervention, improving data and reporting systems, and supporting service users through proactive engagement.

You will either be educated to degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject, or have substantial experience.

This post is temporary for no longer than 23 months.

Please note interviews will be held Thursday, 30 July 2026.

Requirements

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

About Angus Council

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.