Policy Support Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 370352**Salary**:

- £28,352 - £28,637- £28,352 per annum. Rising to £28,637 per annum on successful completion of probation.- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer- B3 APT**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Inspection and Regulation**Type of role**:

- Policy
Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- 2 Rivergate, Bristol or Piccadilly Gate, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We are hiring a Policy Support Officer to join our Regulation and Social Care team.

The Policy Support Officer will primarily support the work of the Policy Officers, Senior Policy Officers and senior managers within the Regulation and Social Care Directorate and may support National Leads and others as necessary. The person must be highly motivated to develop regulatory and inspection policies, practice and frameworks that best protect and promote the safety of children and young people and, where appropriate, adult service users’ welfare. They must have the skills and knowledge to plan and manage the delivery of a complex programme of work.

This is a fantastic opportunity to further your experience in Ofsted’s well-established team. The post holder will work with high-achieving professionals at all levels, surrounded by a friendly and supportive team. They will have access to amazing benefits, such as flexible working hours, the Civil Service Pension Scheme, and 32.5 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays. We offer a hybrid working model, so you may also choose to spend a proportion of time working from home.

**Job description**:

- Please refer to the job specification for further information.**Person specification**:

- Please refer to the job specification for further information.**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Working Together
- Making Effective Decisions
- Managing a Quality Service

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Experience of producing high-quality advice, guidance or training materials for stakeholders. (Essential)
- Evidence of administrating and supporting the delivery of competing priorities. (Essential)
- Experience of communicating effectively with diverse audiences, verbally and in writing. (Essential)
- Evidence of identifying and developing solutions that enable improved ways of working. (Essential)
- Understanding of the role of policy in delivering improvement for children and learners. (Desirable)

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £28,352, Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills contributes £8,213 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Full details of the benefits available can be found in our Ofsted Offer brochure.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.**Application and Shortlisting**:

- Experience of producing high-quality advice, guidance or training materials for stakeholders. _
- Evidence of identifying and developing solutions that enable improved ways of working._

Applications that meet these two criteria will progress onto have a full sift undertaken on the remaining criteria’s”.

**Interview**

Interviews will be held on** 18 October and 21 October 2024 **via** Microsoft Teams.**

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet th