Traveller Support Officer Ofrs610545

3 weeks ago

Kidlington, United Kingdom Oxfordshire County Council Full time

**Job details**:
**Salary range**:£30,151 - £32,909 per annum

**Work Location**:Fire Head Quarters, Sterling Road, Kidlington, OX5 2DU

**Hours per week**:37

**Contract type**:Permanent

**Closing date**:Monday 4th September 2023

**Interview date**:Wednesday 27th September 2023

**About us**:
Oxfordshire County Council is seeking a Traveller Support Officer to join our small but brilliant, Gypsy and Traveller Service. We aim to deliver an outstanding service that is community focused, trusted, and inclusive, as well as promoting fairness and equality across all communities. The team consists of a Service Manager, Traveller Site Officer, and Traveller Support Officer.

We manage 6 Gypsy and Traveller Council Sites, totalling 89 pitches, and are responsible for tackling unauthorised encampments across the county. We are in partnership with Oxfordshire District Councils, including Towns and Parishes, Thames Valley Police and the Oxfordshire Health Trust.

This is a unique, challenging, and versatile role meaning that day to day tasks are quite often varied. You may find yourself dealing with challenging and sometimes emotional situations so it’s important you’re able to work calmly under pressure and balance competing demands effectively.

**About the role**:
Responsibilities of Traveller Support Officer include:

- To support the Traveller Site Officer in managing the six-county council owned permanent Traveller sites and the unauthorised encampments across the county.
- The post holder will travel to different sites regularly and provide support services on site.
- To provide an effective and efficient administrative support, finance, procurement, and general office duties.
- This post holder is responsible for ensuring that all relevant County policies and procedures are adhered to, and concerns are raised in accordance with these policies

The position is based in Kidlington, but work is required throughout Oxfordshire.

We encourage agile working and can be relatively flexible, but this will be dependant on service need, demands and workloads.

**About you**:
**Do you have**:

- Great communication skills (verbally and written)
- Great negotiation skills
- Good level of numeracy
- Cultural knowledge of Gypsy and Traveller community
- Experience of working with a marginalised Ethnic minority group
- A full UK driving licence

**Rewards and benefits**:

- Culture of flexible working
- Technology to support agile working where role permits
- Up to 33 day’s holiday p.a. plus bank holidays
- Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday
- Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support
- Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Local and national discounts for shopping and travel
- Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development

**Would you like to know more?**:
**Please click here to view the Job Description and Selection Criteria**

**Application Procedure**:
**_ Our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion_**
- At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce. Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peer support and safe spaces for staff._

**_Our commitment to safeguarding_**
- Our Organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. _
- We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect these commitments._

**_Guaranteed interviews_**
- As a Disability Confident employer we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job. We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships. We are also committed to helping and supporting those transitioning from HM Armed Forces to civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of leaving the service._
- We are open to discussions about flexible working._
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