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Safer Recruitment Coordinator - Temp Solutions
- Exeter, Devon
- Part Time
- £27,709 - £29,542 per annum, pro rata
We're looking for an enthusiastic and customer-focused Safer Recruitment Coordinator to join our dedicated Safer Recruitment Team. In this role, you'll provide high-quality advice and support to Devon County Council and a range of customer organisations, helping to ensure the effective and compliant processing of Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. Based at County Hall in Exeter, the team offers flexible working arrangements, with both hybrid and fully office-based options available. Who we are Safer Recruitment Service is part of Devon County Council's Recruitment Hub within People and Culture. Since its conception over 20 years ago, Safer Recruitment Service has established itself as a reputable and trusted advisory and DBS processing service. It is a critical service in preventing the risk of harm to vulnerable children and adults accessing our public services by supporting safe recruitment practice. What we do Safer Recruitment is responsible for delivering timely and accurate advice on all aspects of safer recruitment in line with current legislation and guidance. We receive a high volume of queries by email and by phone from internal and external customers. Devon County Council is a registered umbrella body and responsible organisation with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), offering an online DBS application service for basic, standard, and enhanced level checks via the Safer Recruitment Service. It provides this service to local authorities, schools, academies, emergency services, a variety of businesses, organisations, and charities across the UK. Our colleagues are authorised to act as a DBS Countersignatory; meeting our obligations outlined in the DBS Code of Practice, assessing DBS eligibility, and ensuring DBS applications are submitted in accordance with legislative provisions. The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of a comprehensive Safer Recruitment service, supporting Devon County Council, partner organisations and external customers to complete pre-employment checks efficiently and effectively. By ensuring these checks are carried out accurately and in a timely manner, you will help minimise risk and promote safe recruitment practices across all organisations we support. The role plays an important part in Devon County Council's commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk. You will help ensure that robust employment screening processes are in place to protect customers, service users and the wider community. About You We're looking for a highly organised and customer-focused individual who thrives in a busy environment and takes pride in delivering a high-quality service. You'll have experience in administration, recruitment, or customer service roles, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines while maintaining excellent attention to detail. You will be a confident communicator, able to build positive relationships with colleagues, managers and customers, and provide clear advice and guidance both verbally and in writing. You'll be comfortable making decisions using sound judgement and available information, and will approach your work with accuracy, professionalism and discretion. As a collaborative team player, you'll be willing to support colleagues, contribute to a positive team culture. You'll also be committed to delivering excellent customer service and handling sensitive information in accordance with data protection requirements. You will have good working knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications and be confident using computer systems to maintain accurate records and manage information effectively. Most importantly, you'll share our commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, helping to ensure safer recruitment practices across the organisations we support. Experience of working in a HR, recruitment or safer recruitment environment, together with an awareness of safer recruitment legislation and pre-employment checking processes, would be advantageous. Reference: REQ010485
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Independent Adoption Panel Chair
- Devon
- Variable Hours
- £550 per panel
Permanent Various hours available An exciting opportunity has arisen for an independent panel chair within the Adopt South West. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated person to chair the joint panels. Adopt South West is the Regional Adoption Agency providing adoption services for the five local authorities of, Devon, Plymouth, Somerset, Torbay and Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly councils. Devon County Council is the host Local Authority for the agency. Adopt South West have 3 panel chairs sharing the responsibility of chairing up to 7 panels a month. All panels are held virtually via Microsoft Teams. What you'll be doing As Independent Adoption Panel Chair, you will lead Adoption Panels to ensure that all cases are considered fairly, thoroughly and in line with regulations, legislation, statutory guidance and National Minimum Standards. The joint adoption panel makes recommendations on cases presented which includes plans of adoption for children, adopter approvals and matches between children and adoptive families. The panel has an important function in the quality assurance of reports and ensuring a degree of independent scrutiny over cases presented and reporting back to the agency. The panel chair is supported in their role by vice chairs. You will: Chair panel meetings ensuring balanced, evidence-based recommendations. Create an environment where all panel members can contribute effectively. Promote respectful, inclusive and anti-discriminatory practice. Provide oversight and leadership to maintain high-quality panel standards. Work closely with senior leaders, including the Agency Decision Maker, to support continuous improvement. Contribute to the development and performance of panel members including annual reviews of panel members alongside the agency advisor. The Team You will work as part of a committed and experienced panel team within a wider service that is passionate about achieving positive outcomes for children. Within Adopt South West we are committed to providing the best service for adoptive families, children and their birth families. We are determined to drive forward best practice across our region with forward-thinking, creativity and innovation, the adoption panel has an important role in this. We are committed to improving our service through listening to the voice of our service users. What we're looking for We are looking for an individual who: Has a good level of experience of adoption, fostering, or children in care, along with understanding of the impact of trauma and loss and the lifelong nature of adoption. Is confident in chairing complex meetings and facilitating discussion. Has strong analysis, decision-making and communication skills. Can manage differing views professionally and constructively. Is committed to safeguarding, equality and achieving the best outcomes for children. Has excellent and proven interpersonal skills and communication. If you would like an open and informal discussion regarding this role, please contact: Lucy Hextall lucy.hextall@devon.gov.uk . Internal Applicants, please note: If you are an existing DCC employee, please use your iTrent Employee Self Service (ESS) details to log in and apply. DCC embraces the positive benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and safe. We welcome applications from people who share our commitment to stop discrimination, challenge inequality and promote diversity across Devon. More information can be found on our Equality and Diversity webpages . For details on the use of AI in applications and Devon County Council’s use of AI in Recruitment please see Use of AI in Our Recruitment Processes - Working for Devon | Devon County Council Happy to Talk Flexible Working - The Council offers flexible working arrangements in terms of when and where people work e.g. hybrid working, part-time, condensed hours etc. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English. Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice . For more information about Working for Devon please visit our Working for Devon page . We cannot consider visa sponsorship at this time. UK Right to Work is required. For further guidance on right to work in the UK, please visit: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). This role requires a DBS disclosure.
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Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Operations EHCP Co-ordinator
- Exeter, Devon
- Full Time
- £27,709 - £29,542 per annum
The Special Educational Needs (SEND) Operational Team is looking for experienced SEND administrators. This is an exciting time of transformation for SEND and Inclusion in Devon County Council and you will be joining us at a time of new development. These roles are responsible for providing co-ordination support to Education Health and Care Plans statutory processes within SEND operations. The role focuses on providing a high-quality co-ordination service for SEND statutory processes, including data management, record keeping and communication with colleagues, professionals and families. This role will also include some early-stage statutory decision making to support the wider work of the SEND operations team. We are looking for co-ordinators or experienced administrators with a good working knowledge of SEND statutory processes who can manage a diverse workload. The role will require a strong competency in IT across various Microsoft packages and management information system (MIS) platforms. The ability to work within given deadlines is essential and you must be able to show knowledge of the relevant legislation including the SEND Code of practice 2015. For an informal discission please contact Ryan Merchant at ryan.merchant@devon.gov.uk . How to apply Please ensure when completing your application form that you provide a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the essential and desirable criteria as described in the person specification of the job description. Applications may not be taken forwards if the supporting statement is not adequately completed. Internal Applicants, please note: If you are an existing DCC employee, please use your iTrent Employee Self Service (ESS) details to log in and apply. DCC embraces the positive benefits of a diverse workforce and is committed to providing an environment that is inclusive and safe. We welcome applications from people who share our commitment to stop discrimination, challenge inequality and promote diversity across Devon. More information can be found on our Equality and Diversity webpages . For details on the use of AI in applications and Devon County Council’s use of AI in Recruitment please see Use of AI in Our Recruitment Processes - Working for Devon | Devon County Council Happy to Talk Flexible Working - The Council offers flexible working arrangements in terms of when and where people work e.g. hybrid working, part-time, condensed hours etc. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This role requires the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence and fluency in English. Personal data we collect from you will be processed in accordance with the Applicant privacy notice . For more information about Working for Devon please visit our Working for Devon page . We cannot consider visa sponsorship at this time. UK Right to Work is required. For further guidance on right to work in the UK, please visit: Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). This role requires a DBS disclosure. Reference: REQ010529
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