Benefits of working for North Somerset Council

• Attractive area to live and work. Excellent schools and first class road, rail and air links.

• Competitive salary.

• Excellent pension scheme.

• Generous annual leave entitlements.

• High-quality supervision and support.

• Excellent training and development opportunities.

• Bicycle and electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.

• Ability to influence strategy and practice.

• Relocation allowance.

• Family friendly policies including childcare benefit scheme.

• Employer committed to equality and diversity.

• Employee assistance programme and occupational health support.

Useful Information:

North Somerset Council plays an important role in the life of the communities within the area and provides services to around 201,000 people in partnership with the private and public sectors, the voluntary sector and local people. The majority of our employees work from Weston-super-Mare.

North Somerset has a reasonably broad economic structure supporting defence, engineering, food processing, printing and packaging as well as agriculture, catering and the care industry. Tourism makes a significant contribution to the economic well-being of the area.

There are excellent roads and rail links to London and Bristol, and to Devon and Cornwall and the south west. Air transport is available at Bristol International Airport, which is situated in the North Somerset area, and there are port facilities at Royal Portbury Dock, which has contributed to attracting many new businesses to the area.

The council’s headquarters are situated in Weston- super-Mare, conveniently placed within walking distance of the shops, other town centre facilities, the railway station and bus stops. Weston-super- Mare is one of the premier holiday resorts in the West Country, and is the largest town in the area. It offers a large range of shops and restaurants that offer dishes from virtually every corner of the world. Local schools provide high standards of education, and there is a wide choice of housing in the area, both in the towns and surrounding villages.

Our leadership commitments

Each of us has a crucial role to play in helping meet the needs of residents, customers and communities and to ensure North Somerset Council is an effective, positive and collaborative place to work. As such we place as much importance on how our staff achieve our objectives and outcomes through demonstrating the right behaviours and values as what they do to achieve them.

Our Corporate Plan, Vision and Priorities set out the attitudes and approach we expect from all staff: how we do things, how we treat others, what we say, how we say it and how we can expect to be treated.