Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager
Government Internal Audit Agency - London
£50,595 to £55,756 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build ‘better insights, better outcomes’ for our clients. This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government. The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally. Job description The role of Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager is part of the Governance team, which sits within the Corporate Services division. This small but dynamic team provides a wide array of corporate governance services, including managing governance frameworks, risk management processes, and internal controls within the GIAA. The Corporate Governance and Transparency Manager holds a pivotal position within the Governance team and across the Agency. Working closely with senior colleagues, you will ensure the seamless delivery of a high-quality internal governance function. You will serve as the Agency’s lead on propriety, ethics, correspondence handling, and transparency reporting. Role responsibilities Deliver high-quality corporate governance aligned with best practice, ensuring accountability, transparency, and integrity across the Agency by developing, maintaining, and continuously improving governance policies, procedures, and frameworks to ensure they are effective, proportionate, and accessible. Promote compliance with corporate governance policies and ethical standards, including conflicts of interest, gifts, and hospitality, through assurance checks and by embedding a culture of accountability and transparency. Oversee transparency and information governance requirements, including publication schemes and external reporting obligations. Lead the development and continuous improvement of correspondence management policies and procedures in line with regulatory and statutory requirements (e.g., UK GDPR, FOIA, Data (Use and Access) Act 2025) and ensuring alignment with organisational policies, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) expectations, and lessons learned. Manage external correspondence processes including Freedom of Information requests, Data Subject Access Requests, complaints, and enquiries. Manage the Agency's whistleblowing arrangements, ensuring compliance with organisational policies while maintaining confidentiality and protecting the integrity of the process. Support effective organisational decision making by managing and delivering high-quality committee secretary services, preparing and presenting reports, analysis, and recommendations to senior committees. Provide governance advice and guidance to Directors, Board members, and colleagues as required. Manage and/or contribute to governance projects and complex work programmes as required. Examples include implementing innovative governance systems and practices, managing Non-Executive Director recruitment, co-ordinating the production of the Annual Report, and co-ordinating governance effectiveness reviews. Task manage and support the development of the Governance Support Officer (Executive Officer). Maintain an up-to-date understanding of government, regulatory, legal, political, and technological developments relevant to corporate governance.
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Support Caseworker - Referral Service
Muscular Dystrophy UK - London
£28,000 to £30,000 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
Muscular Dystrophy UK is a charity that connects a community of more than 110,000 people living with one of over 60 muscle wasting conditions, and all the people around them. We work so that everyone can access the healthcare, support and treatments they need to feel good, mentally and physically. This is an exciting time to join Muscular Dystrophy UK. We recently launched our new 10-year strategy to transform the lives of people living with muscle wasting conditions. Our vision is a world without limits, and we won’t stop until we achieve it. Our care, information and advocacy service coordinates our support for families, providing advice and practical support to enable individuals to access the services, benefits and equipment they are entitled to. As part of our support, we also connect individuals with others affected by these rare conditions through our peer support networks. The Support Caseworker will provide timely, person-centred support to individuals and families referred into Muscular Dystrophy UK services. The post holder will use structured holistic conversations to understand needs, agree appropriate support, and help people access information, practical guidance, peer support and other internal or external services. This role ensures individuals feel informed, supported, and confident to access the help they need at the right time, while contributing to consistent delivery of referral and support pathways across services. The role does not provide clinical advice, but works alongside healthcare and other professionals where appropriate, with consent and in line with safeguarding and data protection requirements.
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Financial Reporting Manager (Hybrid)
ESSENTIAL EMPLOYMENT LTD - Sutton, London
£60,393 to £60,393 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
Financial Reporting Manager (Hybrid) needed in Sutton, £60,393 PA - Reference: OR118382 The role is hybrid with time split between working on site 2 days per week (or more) and working from home up to 3 days per week. The expectation is for the postholder to work in the Sutton office once per week and in the Kingston office once per week. The post currently has 2 direct reports. The Shared Finance Service ambition is to add value, inspire success and this role is part of the Shared Finance Service (SFS) collectively responsible for delivering SFS activities to realise this ambition. The role provides direct support to the Head of Financial Reporting & Control and may be required to deputise as required. The post holder is required to support the Head of Financial Reporting & Control to maintain the integrity of financial records and accounts for Kingston and Sutton. The post holder will take responsibility for leading and managing the annual closing process and in year financial reporting to senior officers. The post holder will also provide leadership to the systems and control functions. The post holder will work as part of the Senior Leadership Team of the service to provide inspirational leadership and drive cultural change to ensure the service reflects the INSPIRE values and achieves excellent outcomes. This is a full time role on a Permanent basis If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to katie@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number. Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer. All our roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references so please be prepared. Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage. You can also follow us at Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn or via our website www.essentialemploy.co.uk.
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Business Support Officers (Local Authority)
Falconwood Recruitment Consultants Ltd - Bromley, Southern
£15.50 to £25 an hour
HybridContractFull time
Business Support Officers required to work within local authority settings in Greater London. Locations include: Bromley, Bexley, Lewisham, Merton, Croydon Lambeth, Southwark, Kensington, Camden, Islington, Barnet, Haringey, Tower Hamlets and Westminster. Candidates should have previous local authority of public sector experience ideally and have experience in working in services including social care, safeguarding, housing, HR, parking, environmental or corporate services. The contracts are often 3 - 6 months or longer and full and part time contracts are available. Salary range: £15.50 per hour - £25 per hour (depending on location and duties)
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Allocations and Verifications Officer (SO2) - Housing
SOHL ASSOCIATES LIMITED - Lambeth
£23 to £23.50 an hour
HybridTemporaryFull time
Key Areas of Responsibility 1. Provide a high quality, customer focused and responsive housing allocation service to Lambeth tenants and residents applying for transfers and social housing by the efficient and timely allocation of Council housing and nominations to Housing Associations and Housing Co-operatives including various mobility schemes where appropriate. 2. Advertise properties and short-list prospective tenants by matching need and qualification criteria through the processes of the choice-based lettings scheme and make direct offers of properties in accordance with the Council’s Housing Allocation Scheme and related policies and procedures. 3. Apply rigour and undertake detailed and thorough investigations (conducting home visits where necessary), in the verification process and in the approval of all housing applications through the housing register maintaining a detailed knowledge and understanding of Lambeth’s Allocations scheme and associated policies and procedures. 4. Work closely with housing providers, including ALMOs and Registered Social Landlords, maintaining and developing effective day to day to day working relationships and monitor their performance ensuring the most effective use of total social rented stock in the borough. 5. Provide timely and accurate management information, data and produce detailed reports to assist with the monitoring and supply of the social housing stock. 6. Liaise and work closely with other peer groups across housing and other directorates that have a direct influence on the section promoting a joined up approach in the operational deployment of services.
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23775 - Business Administrator - Psychology Services - National Security Division - DoS
Ministry of Justice - London
£34,063 to £35,866 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
Psychology Services Group are recruiting a Band 3 Business Administrator to join the National Security Division (NSD) Psychology team, which is part of the Psychology Counter Terrorism (CT) Team to contribute to the provision of psychological services. The National Probation Service has introduced a specialist dedicated and highly skilled National Security Division, which provides an enhanced level of management and intervention for the most high-risk, complex and high-profile offenders in the community. The National Security Division is based across 5 geographical units (based in Cardiff, Birmingham, Manchester, London and Reading), and each unit has a Senior Psychologist allocated to the team. There are several key elements to this role, based within the National Security Division Psychology Team: • Psychological services continues expanding in these areas of work. The post-holder will be actively involved in organising, producing and maintaining accurate records for area of work. As such, the post holder is required to be IT proficient, with advanced skills in MS Office applications, especially Word and Excel. • The post-holder will be required to develop relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders. In order to achieve this, there is a requirement to attend key meetings across the country. They will act as contact point for all communications to the team. Prioritise and distribute communications to the appropriate person or relevant department in establishment and interact with staff located in other establishments to exchange information. • The post holder will need excellent organisation skills and an ability to prioritise and manage their own work load amongst competing demands. • Due to the nature of this role and the information the post-holder will access, SC level vetting is required.
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Housing Adviser (SO2) - Housing
SOHL ASSOCIATES LIMITED - Lambeth
£23 to £23.50 an hour
HybridTemporaryFull time
Main Purpose of Job To prevent homelessness in accordance with the provisions of the Homelessness Reduction Act, associated Code of Guidance, case law and best practice. To undertake a housing needs assessments for people seeking housing assistance and create housing plans tailored to the individual�s needs and circumstances. To manage a complex and demanding case load in a busy and often challenging environment and prevent or relieve homelessness through the provision of advice, advocacy, negotiation and mediation. To ensure that all housing options have been thoroughly explored to ensure best efforts to prevent homelessness. To undertake the assessment and investigation of homeless applications under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 where prevention/relief is not possible, and inform clients of their assessment outcome. Key Areas of Responsibility To provide a front of house service for customers seeking housing advice and assistance, ensuring that both priority and non priority customers are directed to the appropriate part of the service. Provide an advice and mediation service for households who live with families of friends and have been asked to leave, conducting home visits if required in order to help them to remain in their current accommodation and to avoid them having to move into temporary accommodation To deliver a customer-facing service via drop in and appointments and work occasional evening meetings where required to accommodate the demand and flow of customers. To deliver a customer-facing service via a telephone advice-line providing a full casework service for callers, as required. Assess the temporary accommodation needs of customers as required and follow established placement and sign-up processes in order to provide a seamless service Manage a caseload of priority and non-priority need customers in housing need and maintain accurate and detailed casework records identifying priorities and meeting individual and service performance targets. Manage conflicting priorities between case work, face to face interviews and operate an effective telephone service to ensure all customers can speak to housing advisers on the day of enquiry To use a range of housing options to provide alternatives to temporary accommodation, assessing the suitability of private renting as an option, working closely with the Lettings service. To provide private sector advice and casework to prevent the loss of private rented and owner-occupied accommodation and to ensure that accommodation is affordable and in a fit state of repair. To gather, record and verify information in relation to housing and homeless applications and assist those customers or who need support to bid for permanent council or registered provider properties. To provide advice and support to tenants affected by welfare reform. The post holder will actively engage private tenants and other residents affected by benefit changes and prevent homelessness by negotiating with landlords, increasing incomes, helping tenants to move to more affordable accommodation or supporting them into work and engaging with other support services. To respond effectively to prevent homelessness through advice, negotiation, mediation or conciliation, or by securing immediate access to alternative accommodation and generally promoting a housing options approach to service delivery to a full range of customers, including people who are challenging and demanding To assess the housing-related support needs of single people and arrange access to appropriate housing related support services (Pathways services) via agreed referral procedures. To assist customers living in supported housing to move to suitable and appropriate accommodation when they are ready to move into general needs accommodation. To assess clients under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 and recommend outcome for approval by the Homeless Assessment Manager To maintain and develop an excellent knowledge of housing options, homelessness law and practice and related fields including housing benefit and welfare rights Generic Responsibilities Be a champion for excellent customer service delivery and customer care and contribute to the development and delivery of an integrated service. Be self serving with respect to administration, case record keeping and other related duties and utilise IT systems to update and record information required according to guidance and established procedures. Participate in appraisals, one to ones, objective settings, personal development plans and working group meetings and take a full and active role in service development, including service reviews.
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Lead Practitioner - Grade J
Wax Recruitment Ltd - Colindale, London
from £24.24 an hour
HybridContractFull time
Job title: Lead Practitioner - Grade J Job Category: Social Care Qualified Location: 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, London, NW9 4EW, Barnet Council Hours per week: 36 Salary: £24.24 per hour Social Work England Registration and Enhanced DBS Required 1 day a week in office, occasional travelling borough wide
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Community & Events Officer (1 year Mat cover)
CareTrade - London
£33,000 to £38,000 a year, pro rata
HybridContractPart time
The Community & Social Events Officer is responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering a programme of social activities, clubs and events for neurodivergent adults. The role works closely with beneficiaries to co-produce meaningful opportunities for social connection and personal development, whilst managing volunteers, monitoring outcomes, safeguarding participants, and building partnerships that strengthen the community engagement of the charity as a whole.
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Major Gifts Administrator and Individual Giving & Collection Development Administrator
Tate Gallery - London
from £29,759 a year
HybridPermanentFull time
We are looking to appoint two administrators - a Major Gifts Administrator and an Individual Giving & Collection Development Administrator - to join Tate's Development division. Both roles will play a pivotal role in supporting a range of fundraising initiatives that are central to Tate's mission and provide an excellent opportunity for those looking to build a career in fundraising for the arts in one of the most established Development departments in the sector. The Major Gifts team raises essential funds from philanthropic donors, charitable foundations and governmental sources to support Tate's vision, including for exhibitions and programmes, Learning, Conservation, and Library & Archives work, as well as local and national projects. The Major Gifts Administrator role provides central and reliable administrative support to the team for the efficient and effective delivery of these objectives. The Individual Giving & Collection Development team raises funds through Tate's International Council, Patrons and Collection Committees as well as for the management of key projects centred around acquisitions for Tate's collection. The Individual Giving & Collection Development Administrator will support the effective relationship management of these key supporters and provide administrative support to help realise dynamic fundraising projects in support of Tate's collection. We are looking for two proactive and reliable individuals who excel in a fast-paced environment. You will have excellent organisational, communication and research skills, paying great attention to detail. In addition, you'll be a positive, collaborative team member, contributing to Tate's fundraising success. All candidates who are shortlisted will be interviewed with the opportunity to be considered for either role, however, please state in your application if you have a preference to be considered for one role in particular.
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