Essex County Council Employer Reviews

My job role is very diverse, get to network with several schools, operators and the public, friendly and supportive team.

I have worked for Essex county council for 29 years ,I have mostly enjoyed my time with the council,due to public service cut backs the work satisfaction has gone down and the caring side of the council towards its employees has fallen.
management tend to have grown apart from the working aspect of the job due to being bogged down with red tape and – more... workloads.
Hardest part of job-working withing budgets and restrictions
best part of job- working outside in the countryside and job satisfaction when getting compliments from members of the public. – less

there was no typical day: working with the general public means that no two days are the same.
i enjoyed all aspecst of this job, from class visits to shelving.

Due to being occupied with our work for the residents/customers, a day runs pretty first a lot is archived by both staff and customers.
I have yet learned more skills to communicate and providing 1:1 care for certain individuals.
The management team is very supportive and enable staff to mentain the good standards in the organization. Fellow staffs – more... are so helpfull and were very welcoming. They encourage team work and share new informantion.
The hardest part of the Job is when the weather is very bad that activities cannot take place and customers all seem bored and there is nothing much one can do taking in mind both staffs and customers' safety.
The most enjoyable part of the work is when a set goal for a customer has been reached and gained. – less

In my role for the Blue Badge department I was an integral part of the team responsible for the process of issuing Blue Badges to members of the public.

My role was to make sure the paperwork was correctly filed away in Alphabetical order in the correct files for retrieval; I was also responsible for updating the information of clients on the in-house – more... Blue Badge Database, as well as scanning and uploading photographs onto the computer and editing them.

I was also responsible for checking the paperwork received by clients and checking the information they sent in matched the Blue Badge requirements, if not I was responsible for sending out Missing Information letters. – less

Working alongside children watching basic interaction and being able to stear the children into making well thought through choices. Friendly atmosphere within the work place, getting along with all my co-workers

easy going boss,put herself out to help you where poss,always kept upto date with changes in department.

really enjoyed working for the councilin the summer holidays

Working with small children. Very friendly. Constant training and review. Police checks provided.

challenging work most days,learned every young person has their own needs,some needs very small while others needs a lot more complex,i was a team leader and line manager in which i tried to be fair to all staff and young people at all times,other management wasn't always fair .i had a good team .hardest part of the job ,learning to switch off and not – more... take your work home .enjoyable part of the job helping young people. – less

A typical day does not exist in my role - it is quite usual to plan certain tasks for completion, only to receive a request for something which needs to take precedence - this could be a call to request the research and collation of some information urgently required, to incoming information about staff sickness and arranging cover/alerting the team – more... to enable them to update the website.

Being flexible is essential for any role, I believe, and over time, I have come to realise this is even more important than I had previously thought. It makes for a far more positive relationship with managers, customers and colleagues, and makes for a pleasant environment. – less

ECC started a 5 year transformation programme 3 years ago. Since then our environment has been constantly changing. Working as part of the Change Management Team for Adult Social Care I was at the heart of it. My roles over the last 5 years have constantly challenged me do strive to do my best, pulled on my values and behaviours to excel in my performance – more... and offered so many opportunties to learn new skills and development my career. They value their employees and their Change Management approach has been engaging, communicative and transparent. I have had the opportunity to work on extremely varied projects and developed a large network within these projects – less

I had an enjoyable time while on placement and was given the opportunity to learn new skills. I would help faciliate on all the evening sessions, and ensure that all materials and resources were gathered. I would help fill out the evaluation sheets at the end of the sessions.