Policy & Scrutiny Support Officer

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade F. SCP 17 £31,022 - SCP 22 £33,699

Hours Per Week: 36hours

Base Location: Tameside One, Ashton-under-Lyne

Assessment Date: To be arranged

The Role

Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council are looking to recruit to the post of Policy & Scrutiny Support Officer, a varied role that sits at the forefront of delivering on the Council's key ambitions and supporting vital quality assurance processes. The role sits in the broader Policy and Scrutiny team which has responsibilities around Resident Engagement and the Equalities agenda, Corporate Performance reporting, Business Planning, and the Council's Scrutiny function, alongside wider improvement support to services across all areas of the Council.

The team's work is dynamic, with recent key pieces of work including developing an Anti-Poverty Strategy, leading an ongoing programme of Scrutiny transformation, supporting Children's Services with their Improvement journey, and developing Tameside's emergent Borough Plan.

The role provides essential support to the Policy and Scrutiny service with a number of key responsibilities including conducting research and providing advice in areas related to policy, performance, and scrutiny, supporting delivery of the Council's quarterly performance reporting and ongoing equalities and resident engagement exercises, and supporting the Scrutiny Manager in the delivery of the Scrutiny work programme and in running meetings of the Scrutiny Panels. The role also supports the Policy and Scrutiny team to drive forward wider transformation and improvement work with services across all areas of the Council, including in high profile areas such as Children's Services.

The post holder will report to the Senior Policy Officer and will be confident engaging with and providing robust advice to a range of stakeholders including residents, senior officers, and elected members, and will work professionally and impartially in a political environment.

About You

You will be enthusiastic and self-motivated, able to work both independently and within a small team, and with a good understanding of the work of local government and the current challenges faced by residents and public services in Tameside. You will have experience developing and maintaining professional relationships and partnerships, supporting meetings and taking minutes, organising and analysing complex information, and communicating effectively to different audiences.

You will be competent with the use of IT software including the Microsoft Office suite of programs, social media, and other communication tools. As an active and engaged member of the Council's Policy and Scrutiny team you will be confident when working across all areas of the Council and with our partner organisations, able to provide sound and evidenced advice, and willing to take the initiative to share ideas and influence the decision-making process.

Qualification to degree level isn't essential but equivalent experience is desirable.

Why work for us?

You will receive regular supervision and work in a supportive culture where we are ambitious about delivering effective social work practice and supporting you to be the very best you can be.

In Tameside, we like to look after our employees and offer a fantastic range of employee rewards and benefits, including competitive salary, a minimum of 26 days leave, 36 hours working week, membership of the Greater Manchester Pension Fund, which is a Local Government Pension Scheme and much more.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

This is a politically restricted post.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

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