North Lanarkshire Council

Working in North Lanarkshire

We have a vibrant, diverse and growing economy with a great mix of small, medium-sized and large businesses.

People are encouraged to participate in employment opportunities in North Lanarkshire yet also have the support they need to access jobs. They have skills appropriate to the needs of employers. They are supported, no matter their background, personal needs or economic circumstances.

The council is a special place to work, with engaged ambitious people who are ambassadors for the services they provide. We’re fizzing with energy, have bags of determination and we’re moving at a pace to make real changes to our communities and how we work together to deliver services.

Working here, every individual knows that their job has an impact on our people and helps our communities to flourish. Our services enhance lives, change experiences and foster relationships. Our services are aligned to support people at every stage of their life and we work with our partners, combining our skills and resources, to provide real, and sustainable solutions with, and for, our communities.

Structured under four services – Chief Executive’s, Education and Families, Enterprise and Communities and Adult Health and Social Care – we operate a collective approach to tackle the barriers to growth, reduce poverty and to open up opportunities to create more equal communities.

It’s vital that staff feel valued and our policies reflect our commitment to respecting diversity and equality in the workplace. Providing appropriate training to allow staff at any level, to achieve their own ambitions, is embedded in our work practices.

As well as competitive salaries, generous annual leave and an attractive pension scheme, there’s a great range of benefits, including our Work Well NL programme, flexible working and a new rewards and recognition scheme called NL Life. We’re a high-performing, solutions-focussed council and we need talented people with drive, skills and ambition to achieve our shared ambition.

North Lanarkshire. Work Here.

Living in North Lanarkshire

North Lanarkshire has welcoming, vibrant towns. Places where people want to live.

We have a history, but a much bigger future.

We are perfectly situated in the heart of Scotland with first-rate connectivity to the rest of Scotland and the UK. This makes North Lanarkshire a place with plenty to offer - to live, work, raise a family, enjoy recreational pursuits and do business.

Covering 181 square miles, stretching from Stepps to Harthill, we have ambitious plans for our vibrant communities and towns that include Airdrie, Bellshill, Coatbridge, Cumbernauld, Kilsyth, Motherwell, Shotts and Wishaw.

We have a great mix of housing, facilities and services. We’re transforming our town centres. We’re improving transport links and our infrastructure to strengthen better movement between communities.

Giving our children the best education will improve their likelihood of securing a good job. Since 2000 we’ve invested half a billion pounds in new schools and community facilities and we aim to provide education that closes the poverty-related attainment gap and supports every child to fulfil their potential.

We’re on target to build 2,150 new homes by 2021 to add to the 37,000 homes we’re already responsible for, helping to create sustainable communities for families and individuals to thrive.

We’re helping people live for longer in their own homes. Our integrated services provide quality healthcare, helping individuals move from dependence to independence, and enabling them to be part of the decisions that affect them.

These are happy, connected and resilient communities.

We’re also part of the £1.2 billion Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal, which is generating significant investment in infrastructure and innovation in North Lanarkshire, with a wide range of projects that will improve connectivity, create thousands of jobs and boost the local economy.

We’ve also got a wealth of countryside parks, wildlife spots, sport, cultural and recreational facilities on our doorstep and we attract large-scale, international events such as the Commonwealth Games, Cycling Tour Series and the European Championships Glasgow 2018.

It’s a great place to live.

North Lanarkshire. Live Here.

Here at North Lanarkshire Council, we are building a workforce for the future, that means our employees reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in employment and embrace the spirit of the relevant legislation and codes of practice and recognise the need to ensure equality for our employees and prospective employees.

We recognise everyone’s worth, respect each other and are a sensitive and understanding employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

We’re taking steps for our people in the communities where we live and work to help create more opportunities and build a more inclusive and diverse future. We are proud of our participation and achievements in the following programmes:

We are a Disability Confident Leader and through the scheme we ensure disabled people have the opportunity to reach their goals and aspirations. To support disabled people at work the Council has in place a Reasonable Adjustment Protocol. This provides disabled employees and their managers with a process for agreeing what tailored adjustments are needed to support employees to do their job. We offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and who meet the essential criteria for the job.

We are proud to be an Equally Safe at Work employer who strives to advance gender equality in the workplace and prevent violence against women. We have many supportive policies to support women in the workplace including flexible working, breastfeeding, gender based violence etc.

We have signed up to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter to help us ensure Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people can thrive at work in NLC. Our Deputy Chief Executive has become our Executive Sponsor for Race and is committed to leading this work.

We are also committed to providing support to members of the armed forces, veterans and their families which is set out in the Armed Forces Community Covenant. We offer a guaranteed interview for service leavers, spouses, reservists and veterans who meet the essential criteria for the job.

We have an active Employee Equality Forum which provides a place for all employees to influence organisational strategies, policies and procedures for promoting and advancing equality, and tackling discrimination.

EASY READ

We welcome applications from people with disabilities for all our jobs. We will help and support you in any way we can during the recruitment process. Find out more by clicking this link

EQUALITIES MONITORING FORM

To ensure we are providing equality of opportunity we ask all applicants to complete an Equalities Monitoring form, this is included in our application pack.