Project Officer

2 weeks ago


Maidstone, United Kingdom Kent County Council Full time

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**Project Officer x 2**

Kent County Council (KCC) would welcome applicants for the following two roles on a full time basis (37 hours per week):

- Project Officer - Regional Adoption Agencies (RAA)
- Project Officer - Children’s Social Care Sector-Led Improvement Programme (SLIP)

**Role Responsibility - RAA**

As well as the experience, skills and knowledge outlined in the person specification, applicants should be able to demonstrate the following:

- Understanding of commissioning;
- Ability to prioritise work to meet required deadlines and to work on own initiative and as part of a team to produce end results;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills.

**Role Responsibility - SLIP**

KCC is looking to recruit a Project Officer to be hosted by the Children’s Commissioning team to support the Sector-Led Improvement Programme which aims to improve the overall performance of children’s social care by using the strongest performing local authorities to provide peer support to authorities who are working to improve their services.

The Project Officer will work across both Commissioning and the Safeguarding, Professional Standards and Quality Assurance teams; identify areas where the two teams need to strengthen links for quality; and set up systems and processes as identified by professionals, including making improvements to the areas identified for the SLIP programme.

As well as the experience, skills and knowledge outlined in the person specification, applicants should be able to demonstrate the following:

- Ability to prioritise work to meet required deadlines and to work on own initiative and as part of a team to produce end results;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills.

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