Essex County Council

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As one of the largest County Councils in the Country we employ nearly 30,000 people in a vast range of jobs. The opportunities are huge whether you're pursuing a professional career, looking for a worthwhile local job, interested in flexible working, looking to return to work or just starting out.

How we develop and support staff is one of our core values and we reflect this in our Policies and Practices as well as the variety of benefits that we offer.

Our core values

Our core values apply to the whole of the Council, from the Chairman to the newest recruit and they apply in our dealings with everybody, whether they are residents, staff, visitors, or anyone else.

• We put people at the heart of what we do and value their views
• We make best use of all resources and seek to get better all the time
• We develop and support our staff and recognise their achievements
• We respect the environment for today and tomorrow
• We work with others to improve what we do

The Council is committed to fairness and equality of access in all our activities. We recognise the value of a diverse workforce in which people from differing backgrounds, with different skills and abilities, can bring new ideas to enable us to deliver high quality services.

Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults of Essex and expects staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

As part of our safer recruitment, selection and vetting process, the Council applies a variety of selection tools and procedures as appropriate to the post, in particular for posts that involve working with these groups. These may include but are not limited to the following:

• All applicants are required to declare spent convictions.
• Pre-employment checks, including Criminal Records Bureau checks are carried out.
• Interviews may be supplemented by written tests and other appropriate selection tools.

Work/Life Balance

We believe that everyone, regardless of age, race or gender, needs to find a rhythm that helps them to combine work with their other responsibilities or aspirations, and offer a variety of schemes and programmes to give you the flexibility to achieve this.

• Flexible Hours
• Job Share
• Term time working options
• Career Break Scheme
• Child Care Vouchers
• Generous holiday entitlements
• Discounted health care benefits
• Occupational Health Centre
• A range of other employee benefits- including discounts on fitness, travel and RAC Membership.

  Employee Support

  Staff Counselling Services
  We offer a range of staff counselling services to help employees at all levels who have worries or concerns and would like to talk about them in confidence.

  Training and Development
  We are commitment to the personal development of all our staff and to raising standards of performance.

  The Essex Competency Framework has been designed to reflect the abilities and skills needed to deliver our services and is directly linked to our University of Greenwich accredited Staff Development Programme.

  Equality & Diversity

  The Council is committed to fairness and equality of access in all our activities. We recognise the value of a diverse workforce in which people from differing backgrounds, with different skills and abilities, can bring new ideas to enable us to deliver high quality services.

  Our work on equality and diversity is closely aligned to the Council's core value on 'fairness and enabling equal access to opportunities for all'.