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/day-in-the-life/video/pcvfilm/ http://www.lgcareers.com/day-in-the-life/video/pcvfilm/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 21:01:14 +0000 admin http://www.lgcareers.com/meet-the-employees/pcvfilm/

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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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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Sheila, Home Care Team Manager Herefordshire Council I joined the council originally as a home care assistant and have progressed since then to home care manager and then home care team manager. My current role involves managing the social care staff who provide home support services to disabled, vulnerable, frail or elderly people, to enable [...] Related entries:

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Introduction What do the following people have in common? An 80-year-old terminally ill man who needs physical help with getting in and out of his bath? A young woman who has multiple sclerosis and can’t get to the shops on her own? A 19-year-old who is back home after a motorbike accident and needs help [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Councils of all sizes provide food and beverage services for a range of people. Catering managers are responsible for these services. Their ‘customers’ include elderly or disabled people attending day centres, children eating school meals, people living in residential homes, people using sports and leisure centres, visitors entertained by the mayor or leader of [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Nowadays we expect quick and efficient service on the phone. In response to our expectations, local authorities are employing growing numbers of call centre agents/customer service advisers to provide local people with information and advice over the telephone. Increasingly, these telephone information and advice services are provided through call centres (sometimes known as contact [...] Related entries:

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Introduction There is a corporate services department in all types of local authority. As the name suggests, it incorporates the council’s ‘core’ functions. All the services provided to a local community rely on efficient administration, human resource management, information technology support, legal representation and advice, marketing and promotion and thorough policy development and research. But [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Children are potentially the most threatened members of society because they are among the most vulnerable. They are prey to physical, emotional, sexual and substance abuse. Some have learning difficulties, physical disabilities or mental health problems. Often the unstable, disadvantaged child is regarded as a menace and should be disciplined. But to social workers [...] Related entries:

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Introduction People can be mystifying, aggravating, fascinating, rewarding. But they are never boring. The old man next door may appear threatening, dirty, noisy, eccentric. But to social workers he may be depressed, frightened and lonely and it is their job to help him and the local community understand the problem. They organise care and support [...] Related entries:

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Introduction Social work is one of the fastest growing areas of local government provision, and one of the most difficult. It provides a range of services critical to the welfare of a large number of the most vulnerable membes of our society: the young, disabled, elderly people, the unemployed, single mothers, children and families involved [...] Related entries:

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