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Establishment Changes

Meeting: 25/01/2021 - General Purposes Committee (Item 6)

Establishment Changes

(Reasons: LGA 1972 - Sch 12A Paragraph 1 – Information relating to an individual)

 

This report sets out for Members’ approval a number of establishment changes recommended by Management Team.  Members should note that, in accordance with adopted conventions, all of the savings/costs referred to in this report reflect the salary at the top of the scale/grade plus associated on costs.

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Minutes:

(LGA 1972 Sch 12A Paragraph 1 – Information relating to an individual)

 

The report of the Director of Central Services set out for approval a number of establishment changes arising from the ongoing operational management of the Borough Council’s services.

 

RESOLVED: That the proposals and establishment adjustments set out in the report be endorsed as follows:

 

(1)                                            post DA0301 be re-designated from Principal Administrator Democratic Services to Principal Democratic Services Officer, re-graded M7 (from M6) and the hours attached to the post be increased from 22.5 to 30 hours per week with immediate effect;

(2)                                            the hours pertaining to the vacated M9 post DA0304, Democratic Services Officer, be reduced from 29.5 to 22.5 hours per week with immediate effect;

(3)                                            a new full-time, scale 6, post of Animal Welfare Officer be established in the Licensing Team with immediate effect;

(4)                                            the release of the ring fenced sum of £10,000 in the Land Charges team, plus the saving of £8,353 resulting from the review of Democratic Services, be utilised to partially offset the cost of the establishment of the post of Animal Welfare Officer;

(5)                                            the hours pertaining to the post of Senior Revenue and Benefits Officer, agreed at the 1 December meeting of the Committee, be reduced from 37 to 27 hours per week, with effect from 1 March 2021;

(6)                                            the hours pertaining to the post of Senior Revenue and Benefits Recovery Officer, agreed at the 1 December meeting of the Committee, be reduced from 37 to 22 hours per week, with effect from 1 March 2021;

(7)                                            a new post of Senior Revenue and Benefits Officer (Processing), grade SO, 32 hours per week, be established with effect from 1 March 2021;

(8)                                            post DF0527, Overpayment Recovery Officer, scale 5/6, 22 hours per week, be deleted from the establishment with effect from 1 March 2021; and

(9)                                            a contingency provision of £13,750 be made in the re-structure of the Revenues and Benefits Team to enable further adjustments to working hours in the light of experience of the working reality of the proposed amended structure.