At Cheshire East we’re offering a rare opportunity to help shape the strategic direction of a system in transformation and to play a defining role in the next chapter for children and families in Cheshire East as we build something special, to last.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Policy and Procedures Officer, based at Delamere House, Crewe. Developing, maintaining, and communicating policies and procedures that support consistent, legally compliant, and best practice-aligned delivery across children’s services.
About the Role:
The role leads policy reviews, undertakes legislative research, coordinates governance and training, provides expert advice to practitioners, and designs accessible learning materials to embed updated policies across the workforce.
In this role you will lead on:
- Policy Development & Writing
- Policy Governance and Oversight
- Training Strategy & Delivery
- Change Programme Support
- Research, Legislation & Best Practice
- Stakeholder Consultation & Focus Groups
- Monitoring, Evaluation & Improvement
- Presentation & Governance Reporting
- Awareness Raising & Practice Advice
- Staff & Service Engagement
- Training Materials & Accessible Information
- Workload & Demand Management
The successful candidate will bring:
- Advanced education qualification or equivalent professional experience with strong numerical, verbal and written skills.
- Extensive experience working in Children’s Services or related field developing policies, procedures or strategies.
- Demonstrable skills of influencing, negotiating and managing complex conversations.
- Experience of independent working, managing conflicting and competing deadlines.
- Experience of writing high-quality policies, procedures and strategies supporting organisational change or improved practice.
- Experience of developing and delivering training and presentations to diverse audiences, translating complex information for specialists and not-specialists.
- An understanding of policy development and implementation in the context of children’s services.
- Demonstrable development and maintenance of positive working relationships.
- Experience of producing
Cheshire East is an amazing place to live and work. As one of the largest employers in the borough, we are able to offer you a wide range of challenging and rewarding career opportunities.
We are working for a brighter future – together and our commitment to you is that our workplace culture will provide a shared purpose, a well-led organisation with valued people succeeding together as one team and one council to deliver the best service for our customers and communities.
If you want to be part of our award-winning council and contribute to our ongoing success, have the flexibility and drive to enable us to innovate, are committed to working as part of a team and striving to deliver exceptional service wherever you can, we would especially like to hear from you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and want our workforce to reflect the diversity of our local communities so that we can all work for a brighter future - together.
Applicants should ensure all sections of the application form are completed as failure to do so will result in their application being rejected. Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date then it is likely that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion, however, please do not be discouraged from applying again.
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To arrange a confidential conversation about this post prior to application, please contact [email protected].
Cheshire East Council is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults across the Borough. As such, any cautions, convictions, reprimands or final warnings that are ‘not protected’ as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) order 1975 (as amended in 2013) relating to the non-disclosure of spent convictions do not apply to this job. You must therefore, disclose whether you have any previous convictions where prompted to do so within the application process.
