Job title: Associate Applications Engineer

Salary: C3 £32,061 - £33,699

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract: Fixed Term / Temporary 2 Years

Location: Tech North / Other council and social care buildings / Hybrid

The Virtual School is excited to be seeking an Associate Applications Engineer to join our passionate, experienced and skilled team working to promote the education of children who have, at some point in their lives, needed the support of a social work intervention to keep them safe. That might mean children who currently have a child in need or child protection plan, those in our care or care experienced, children living in kinship families and those who are adopted.

As an Associate Applications Engineer you’ll thrive on using both technical knowledge of systems and working with system users to maximise the user experience.

It’s not about an on-line learning service! Your role will be to manage our digital personal education planning (PEP) planning platform. You will ensure that the system holds accurate records for all our looked after children and that key contacts in the child’s school and their social worker can access the system to record the details of each child’s PEP. Whilst you won’t be working directly with children and young people, you will be a key person in how we deliver better outcomes for the children in our care. You will be an enabler between education and social care, through the platform, bringing together the practice so that our children get better outcomes.

Leeds City Council is one of the largest employers in the region with over 14,000 employees. We seek to recruit and develop talented individuals who embody our council values and ambitions.

As an Associate Applications Engineer, you will bring to the role skills in:

The Associate Applications Engineer plays an important role within the Virtual School Team, supporting the effective administration and maintenance of the digital Personal Education Plan (PEP) platform. The postholder will help ensure the system is secure, reliable and fit for purpose, with responsibility for managing user access, maintaining data quality, supporting schools and social care professionals to use the platform effectively, and working closely with suppliers and Integrated Digital Services (IDS) colleagues to resolve issues, implement system upgrades and support service delivery.

The role is integral to our Virtual School team and you’ll be working alongside skilled and knowledgeable practitioners with strong links to integrated digital systems teams. You’ll help us deliver PEP improvements in quality and timeliness and build effective and helpful relationships across schools, settings and social care services. You’ll report to an experienced Senior Data and Applications Officer and benefit from an inclusive team who work collaboratively together. You will need to be skilled at managing a high and variable workload where priorities can change on a daily basis and where being able to account for the difference you make is key. You will be doing more than managing user licenses – you will be contributing to better outcomes for our children and we want you to be as passionate about that as we are.

We take pride in offering the best employee experience, with benefits including:

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If you have any queries or would like an informal chat about the role please email Jancis Andrew jancis.andrew@leeds.gov.uk or Glenn Simpson Glenn.Simpson@leeds.gov.uk with a preferred number to contact you and we will get back to you.

What a C3 Application Operation – Associate Engineer does

Engineer – Application Operation roles

There are 5 levels of Engineer role in Application Operations:

Each role has a set of essential and desirable technical skills associated with it alongside complimentary essential core competencies. The roles require a wide range of skills. The essential and desirable skills shown below demonstrate this, it is not expected for any one individual to have every skill at the identified level.

PERSONAL SPECIFICATION: Method of Assessment will be through one or more of the following Application Form, Test, Interview, and Certificate.

DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS: It is desirable that the candidate should be able to demonstrate the following criteria for the post within the context of the specific role. Candidates are not required to meet all the Desirable requirements however these may be used to distinguish between acceptable candidates.