Policy and Engagement Officer - Winchester, United Kingdom - HCC

HCC

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Winchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Job Details:

Salary Range:
£36,167 - £40,464 per annum
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Work Location:Elizabeth II Court, Winchester (hybrid working - home and office based)

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Hours per week:37

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Contract type: 2 Year Fixed Term
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Closing Date: 3 April 2023
Expected Interview Date:12 and 13 April 2023
The Role:

Joining our inclusive Policy and Guidance Team, you will have the opportunity to advance your career as part of our dedicated Care Governance and Quality Assurance function whilst playing a key role in ensuring practice excellence in our Adults' Health and Care Directorate.
Your experience of writing strategies and policies or your social work background will enable you to develop improved policy, practice and guidance materials for our social work practitioners (including the Social Care Practice Manual). This is a varied role where you will have the opportunity to uphold best practices and support our equality and inclusion work programme and being educated to degree level or the equivalent is essential.
Utilising your eye for detail and organised approach, you will help us to improve the quality of our services through contributing to investigations, reviewing complex cases and embedding learning and improvement activities. You will have a proven track record of analysing, reviewing and making sense of complex or ambiguous information. You will also use your engagement and communication skills to support the wider team on the design and delivery of service user and citizen engagement initiatives, including co-production to empower the people who use our services to have a voice in how we run our services. For more information about co-production, please see our website: Let's go co-pro | Health and social care | Hampshire County Council )
In return, we are committed to your continued personal development and offer an extensive Benefits Package.
The Directorate supports flexible working, including offering a 9-day fortnight and flexible hours to support caring responsibilities. The role is also well suited to working from home, although there will be some requirement to work from the office in Winchester depending on business needs. Full-time office presence can also be accommodated if preferred.

Values Based Recruitment:

Our 4 core values are:
Person Centred: Has a person centred and strengths-based approach that empowers service users and carers to live independent lives.

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Resilience:Successfully manages change and develops and maintains their wellbeing and resilience.
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Accountable: Takes responsibility for work, actions and development; and acknowledges individual and shared accountability.
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Works Together: Builds supportive internal and external working relationships through positive communication and constructive feedback.

Additional Information:

Vetting Requirements:

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Hampshire County Council 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 this commitment.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group.

All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs.

No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.