Highland Council
Location
Inverness, Highland | United Kingdom
Job description
Post Title: Community Support Officer
Location: Various Locations within Inverness
Hours: 35 Hours Per Week
Duration: Fixed Term until 31 March 2025
Salary: £37,146 - £40,258 p.a.
Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.
Contact Person: David Haas Tel: 07799 072061
Job Purpose: To support engagement activity related to the implementation of the Community Empowerment Act and the Council’s ‘Placed Based approach’, including developing local relationships and networks with community bodies.
To provide support and build capacity amongst local community groups to enable greater involvement and participation in local planning and engagement activity. To support groups to take on local assets and develop resilience approaches in order to support the delivery of local priorities.
The posts will be part of the Community Support and Engagement team and will work across either the North and East, West and Mid or Inverness and South areas. The post holders will work as part of the wider area-based team to support projects and activity across the area.
Please APPLY ONLINE . If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact Business Support, T: 01955 608279 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the post reference number above.
Please find the Job Description below.
The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.
As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.
Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by email, unless otherwise stated. Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.
Demonstrate through experience of working in an equivalent job role, evidence of degree level of educational ability OR Educated to degree level or relevant professional qualification.
Driving licence and/or access to personal transport.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
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A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .
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Salary
£37.15k - £40.26k per annum
