http://www.lgcareers.com Find information about working in local government at LGcareers.com Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:34:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.lgcareers.com/news/shine-week-recognising-talent/ http://www.lgcareers.com/news/shine-week-recognising-talent/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:22:56 +0000 admin http://www.lgcareers.com/2009/07/08/shine-week-recognising-talent/

Shine Week 6-10 July Thousands of children and young people from across England are taking part in Shine Week (6-10 July) showcasing hundreds of different talents from street dance to bee keeping, and skills in science and technology to working in the community. Here’s some of the events that have been taking place: Monday • [...] Related entries:

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Watch the film and find out more about Jackie’s job working as a PCV driver in a local council. Video transcript My name’s Jackie Auborn and I am a PCV driver, for Lewisham Council, it’s a bus driver basically, or a coach driver. I’ve got a license to drive big vehicles basically. Well my job [...] Related entries:

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Watch the film and find out more about Bobbie’s job as a family information service development worker in a local council. Video transcript When I was very young I wanted to be a trapeze artist and then as I got older, I realised that probably wasn’t a stable career move, so gave that one up. [...] Related entries:

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Watch the film and find out more about Sue’s job as a children’s services development officer in a local council. Video transcript (Sue brings a children’s puppet into the room with her, as she enters.) My name is Sue Wink and I’m a Young People and Children’s Services Development Officer, that’s a posh title for [...] Related entries:

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Watch the film and find out more about Lawrence’s job as a children and young people’s librarian in a local council. Video transcript I’m Lawrence Dunn and my job title is young people and children’s librarian. We have events at libraries for children and young people to attend and the main thing is to make [...] Related entries:

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Are you good at communicating with different types of people? Can you engage in a meaningful and honest way with children? Are you able to deal effectively and calmly with difficult and confrontational situations? Are you a good listener? Do you have report writing skills? If you can answer yes to these questions, then you [...] Related entries:

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The Local Government Association (LGA) has launched the first ever national campaign to respect, recruit and retain child social workers with a drive to recruit 5,000 professionals who have recently left to tighten the safety net and reduce the chance of children dying from abuse or neglect. Council leaders will highlight that, while there have [...] Related entries:

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The Department of Health have launched their social care recruitment campaign for 2009. The campaign aims to raise awareness of caring careers and recruit more people into social care work. What kind of careers can you do in social care? There’s a wide range of caring jobs in local government. From helping elderly people with [...] Related entries:

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Watch the film and find out more about Rachel’s job as a social worker in a local council. Video transcript My name’s Rachel Wilson and I’m a newly qualified social worker in the children and young people’s section in Lewisham Council. So basically, I have about nine to 15 case loads, which is nine to [...] Related entries:

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Kayleigh, Revenues Assistant Hartlepool Borough Council Before I worked for the council, I did some casual work for an event organised by the council. When I first started my apprenticeship, I was based at the Education Development Centre providing support to school co-ordinators and providing reception duties. During the second year of my apprenticeship I [...] Related entries:

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