Bath & North East Somerset Council
Location
Bath, Somerset | United Kingdom
Job description
Hours: 37 per week
Contract Type: Fixed term until 29/12/2028
Service Area: Sustainable Communities
Department: Heritage Services
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Fashion Museum within Heritage Services, part of Bath & North East Somerset Council.
Bath & North East Somerset lies between the Cotswold and Mendip areas of outstanding natural beauty. The city of Bath is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, built around Britain’s only thermal springs.
Heritage Services runs the Roman Baths & Pump Room, the Fashion Museum, Victoria Art Gallery, and Bath Record Office. The collections at the Roman Baths, Fashion Museum and Bath Record Office are Designated by government as being nationally / internationally important.
The Fashion Museum has been closed since October 2023 and the service is now embarking on a major project to create a new Fashion Museum in Bath city centre and a Fashion Collection Archive co-located at Bath Spa University’s Locksbrook campus. There is more information about the project here:
This is a varied role that involves supporting the Fashion Museum team with the administrative work to deliver one of the most significant capital projects in the country. The role will require the applicant to have strong administration skills, excellent data management skills and the ability to meet deadlines and manage a varied workload. Communications skills and an aptitude to be self-motivated are also key requirements to fulfil this role. The successful applicant will need to be flexible, proactive, calm, and empathetic.
Why B&NES Council?
We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. These include:
• A competitive salary package
• A range of flexible working and hybrid working options, including flexi-time, four regional offices and home-working, dependent on service requirements
• A generous holiday allowance and special leave provisions
• The Local Government Pension Scheme
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme – whatever life throws at you; we are committed to supporting you and your well-being at work and home
• Professional and personal development including in-house training and accredited qualifications including Aspiring Manager and Leadership Development
• Discount scheme including the VECTIS card that offers numerous local discounts including cycle to work and free entry to numerous local attractions with B&NES
Interested to find out more?
If you are interested in this post and require more details after reading the job description or just to chat through the role and what’s involved, please contact recruiting Sophie McKinlay, Re-Fashioning Bath Project Lead, 01225477824,
[email protected] To apply
Please use the online application facility.
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Bath & North East Somerset Council has one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives. We have four core values which shape every aspect of our working life and how we look to the future. These values are to be Bold, Empowered, Supportive and Transparent.
Please explain in your application how you could incorporate these values into the role you are applying for.
We are unable to sponsor candidates for this role under the Home Office Tier 2 points-based system (skilled worker route), therefore you must be able to obtain and provide your own right to work in the UK’. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable. Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to bring your right to work documents with you to your interview so they can be copied and verified at that stage.
As an equal opportunities employer, Bath & North East Somerset Council is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and is opposed to discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender reassignment, or marriage and civil partnership.
We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.
Interview Date: 27th March 2024
Safeguarding Statement:
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.
Please note the Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register. This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role, they will be interviewed before any shortlisting or interviewing of external candidates.
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£24.29k - £24.7k per annum
