24 government jobs found in Swindon

Join our growing team at Anglian Home Improvements, a leading provider of high-quality installation services for windows, doors, conservatories, and roof trims. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional craftsmanship and excellent customer service. We are looking for skilled installers to help us continue our tradition of excellence. The Role Due to continued growth and demand, we are seeking experienced self-employed Window & Door Installers to join our hardworking team. In this role, you will be responsible for the precise installation of our fantastic products in and around the local area. You will work closely with clients to ensure that all installations meet our high standards of quality and safety. Key Responsibilities Install and fit windows & doors with precision and care. Install and secure products using the appropriate tools and techniques. Accurately measure and cut materials for optimal fitting. Complete interior and exterior finishing work, including...

Experienced Social Worker - Family Safeguarding Swindon (Hybrid Working) £42.00 per hour (Umbrella) Locum Contract Are you a passionate and experienced Social Worker ready to make a real impact in child protection? Swindon Borough Council is looking for dedicated professionals to join their forward-thinking Assessment and Child Protection team. Safeguarding and the welfare of children is core to providing a service dedicated to ensuring all children grow up safe from harm. Why This Role? This is more than just another locum position-it's your opportunity to: Join a supportive, motivated team that values your expertise Work in a flexible hybrid model - 3 days per week in Swindon office Make a tangible difference in children's lives every day Be part of a service that's driving positive change in child protectionWhat You'll Be Doing In this varied and rewarding position, you will: Work independently to hold and effectively manage a more complex and multi-faceted caseload...

Experienced Social Worker - Disability Children's Team Swindon (Hybrid Working) £42.00 per hour (Umbrella) Locum Contract Are you a passionate and experienced Social Worker ready to make a real impact in child protection? Swindon Borough Council is looking for dedicated professionals to join their forward-thinking Assessment and Child Protection team. Safeguarding and the welfare of children is core to providing a service dedicated to ensuring all children grow up safe from harm. Why This Role? This is more than just another locum position-it's your opportunity to: Join a supportive, motivated team that values your expertise Work in a flexible hybrid model Make a tangible difference in children's lives every day Be part of a service that's driving positive change in child protectionWhat You'll Be Doing In this varied and rewarding position, you will: Work independently to hold and effectively manage a more complex and multi-faceted caseload Work directly with children,...

Experienced Social Worker - Assessment and Child Protection Swindon (Hybrid Working) £42.00 per hour (Umbrella) Locum Contract Are you a passionate and experienced Social Worker ready to make a real impact in child protection? Swindon Borough Council is looking for dedicated professionals to join their forward-thinking Assessment and Child Protection team. Safeguarding and the welfare of children is core to providing a service dedicated to ensuring all children grow up safe from harm. Why This Role? This is more than just another locum position-it's your opportunity to: Join a supportive, motivated team that values your expertise Work in a flexible hybrid model Make a tangible difference in children's lives every day Be part of a service that's driving positive change in child protectionWhat You'll Be Doing In this varied and rewarding position, you will: Work independently to hold and effectively manage a more complex and multi-faceted caseload Work directly with...

Job Title: DV Cleared Network Developer Location: Corsham Duration; 6 months Rate: Up to £550 per day via an approved umbrella company Must be willing and eligible to go through the DV clearance process Our client, a leading organisation in the Defence and Government sector, is hiring for a skilled Network Developer to join a dedicated team of network specialists. This is an exciting opportunity to work on delivering and supporting technical changes within a large-scale programme, ensuring secure and reliable global WAN services. What you'll be doing: * Designing and developing technical solutions to meet evolving customer needs. * Configuring and troubleshooting network devices, including WAN routing and LAN switching technologies such as MPLS and BGP. * Implementing encryption overlays like IPSec, GRE, and hardware encryption to secure communications. * Producing and maintaining detailed technical documentation, including Low-Level Designs (LLD), build guides, and...

Gloucestershire County Council Advanced Practitioner – Children and Families Team Pay Rate: £42 per hour Hours: 37 per week Contract: Locum About the Role Gloucestershire County Council is seeking an experienced Advanced Practitioner to join its Children and Families Team. You will work with children and families across a varied caseload, providing high-quality assessments, safeguarding interventions, and long-term planning to improve outcomes for children. As an Advanced Practitioner, you will also support colleagues with complex cases, contribute to practice development, and help maintain high standards across the service. Key Responsibilities Manage a complex caseload of Child in Need, Child Protection, and Children in Care cases. Complete Child and Family Assessments and safeguarding investigations. Undertake Public Law Outline (PLO) work and court proceedings where required. Provide guidance and mentoring to less experienced social workers. Undertake direct...

The role will support the development of a privacy-preserving generative AI ecosystem designed to protect personal and sensitive corporate data by design, including data residency, anonymisation and secure deployment protocols and principles, as well as model-based data protection achieved during both training and inference time. Working within a multidisciplinary and multi-partner environment, the postholder will research technical concepts core to the program and contribute towards developing them into dependable systems and components that can be used in live settings, while also supporting the broader technical development of the Lab and its collaboration with CODAS and other project partners. Additionally, the postholder will create publishable material based on the work carried out in the program, and attend events such as conferences and workshops to disseminate the progress made. Responsibilities: * Lead or substantially contribute to technical research workstreams...

We’re Aioi R&D Lab – an AI tech hub in one of the fastest-growing insurance companies. We research and develop AI systems that catapult insurance from a slow-moving, traditional past into a data-driven, technology-lead and society-defining future. We’re looking for dynamic, driven professionals like you to help evolve our business in new directions. You’ll need first-class credentials and a proactive attitude to help us drive the change the underpins our mission. As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will support the development of a privacy-preserving generative AI ecosystem designed to protect personal and sensitive corporate data by design, including data residency, anonymisation and secure deployment principles. Working within a multidisciplinary and multi-partner environment, the postholder will help translate research and technical concepts into dependable systems and components that can be used in live settings, while also supporting the broader technical development of...

Location: Oxfordshire (Agile Working – flexible across county offices) Rate: £400 per day Contract: 21 July 2026 – 21 September 2026 (Initial 2 months with potential extension to 6 months) Hours: 7.4 hours per day Lynx Employment Services are recruiting on behalf of our public sector client for an experienced Finance Business Partnering Manager to provide strategic financial leadership and lead a high-performing team of finance professionals supporting complex council services. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified finance professional with strong business partnering, leadership and transformation experience to support the delivery of financial planning, governance and service improvement across a large local authority. ### The Role Reporting to the Head of Financial Services, you will lead a team of Business Partnering Accountants and Assistant Business Partnering Accountants, providing financial advice and challenge to senior stakeholders while driving continuous...

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Commissioning Manager to support development of a project on a secure national defence site within a highly secure and technically demanding environment.' I would just replace first sent small para with this one. This Commissioning Manager role is ideal for someone with a strong electrical background who enjoys leading commissioning activities, managing stakeholders and ensuring complex building services systems are successfully delivered through testing, commissioning and handover phases. The successful Commissioning Manager will play a key role within a major programme, working closely with project teams, subcontractors and client representatives to ensure commissioning activities are delivered safely, efficiently and in line with programme requirements. The Role As a Commissioning Manager, you'll be involved in: Leading commissioning activities across major building services installations Managing the commissioning process from...

We are currently seeking experienced Communications & Engagement Specialists to support a high-profile programme operating within a complex, highly regulated, and sensitive environment. This role will sit within a central strategic communications function, providing specialist expertise in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of communications and stakeholder engagement activity aligned to wider organisational and programme objectives. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing communication strategies, shaping internal and external messaging, supporting senior leadership teams, and delivering effective engagement activity designed to build trust, improve stakeholder understanding, and support critical programme delivery within a secure and high-profile operating environment. This is an excellent opportunity for communications professionals with experience working within complex organisations where confidentiality, professionalism, and strategic stakeholder...

Our client Oxfordshire county council is looking for an Experienced Social worker to join their family support & safeguarding team. Job purpose To provide professional social work to a caseload of children, young people, and families, appropriate to experience and capabilities, ensuring their views are heard. To ensure the highest of professional standards and good overall knowledge of relevant law, legislation, and practice in line with the values and principles of FSS. To ensure provision of good quality services which integrate government and local guidance and initiatives including, Children Acts 1989 & 2004, Working Together, local Child Protection and Looked After Children procedures, and the DoH, Assessment Framework 2000.Job Responsibilities To provide an efficient and effective service to children, young people, and their families, ensuring that the needs of the children and their parents/carers are professionally assessed, and that relevant interventions are...

Join our growing team at Anglian Home Improvements, a leading provider of high-quality installation services for windows, doors, conservatories, and roof trims. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional craftsmanship and excellent customer service. We are looking for skilled installers to help us continue our tradition of excellence. The Role Due to continued growth and demand, we are seeking experienced self-employed Window & Door Installers to join our hardworking team. In this role, you will be responsible for the precise installation of our fantastic products in and around the local area. You will work closely with clients to ensure that all installations meet our high standards of quality and safety. Key Responsibilities Install and fit windows & doors with precision and care. Install and secure products using the appropriate tools and techniques. Accurately measure and cut materials for optimal fitting. Complete interior and exterior finishing work, including...

Mechanical & Electrical Manager - Housing Repairs & Maintenance Lead the delivery of a critical Mechanical & Electrical service within a busy Housing Repairs & Maintenance team. This is a senior operational role with real impact across social housing stock and service performance. As Mechanical & Electrical Manager, you will take full ownership of Gas, Plumbing and Electrical services across reactive repairs, planned maintenance, and external contracts. You'll lead supervisors, operatives, contractors, and admin teams, ensuring works are delivered safely, efficiently, and in line with regulatory standards. Key responsibilities include: Managing internal teams and sub-contractors across multiple programmes Ensuring compliance with all relevant M&E legislation, H&S, and CDM regulations Monitoring KPIs, driving service improvements, and delivering performance targets Budget management, forecasting, and reporting on service performance Building strong...

Belmont Recruitment are currently looking for Recovery Workers who have experience of working with a Criminal Justice caseload in the Reading area. The role that we currently have available is working within a CJ/Substance misuse charity, in the Reading area. The position will include a caseload of no more than 45 clients, whom of which have Criminal Justice backgrounds. You will be required to carry out duty tasks and assessments, also working with prison releases, court orders, police etc Initially the role is up to 3 month working full time - Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, but is expected to extend past this initial period.. We also have other various Substance Misuse/Criminal Justice roles in the area. Please contact Daniel Baker at Belmont Recruitment for more information or apply. Benefits of working with Belmont Recruitment; * Free compliance (DBS, training etc.) * Single point of contact consultant. * 24h support. * Regular communication updates. * Referal Benefit...

Our client Bristol City Council is looking for a Qualified social worker to join their Discharge to Assess team. Assessment and Review post hospital discharge CAA and Support planning , BI, MCA, Safe Guarding Duty cover , attend QA panel for funding provision. Benefits of working with Remedy A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant. Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed. Double payrolls each week. *Terms & Conditions apply You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions. Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour,...

Advanced Social Worker – Child Protection Team Bristol City Council £42 per hour | Locum Opportunity | Child Protection Team | 1 Day per Week Working from Home Key Highlights £42 per hour Advanced Social Worker opportunity Child Protection Team Locum contract 1 day per week working from home Complex and rewarding frontline practice Supportive leadership and strong team culture Opportunity to mentor and support less experienced practitioners Immediate interview and start opportunities available Are you an experienced Advanced Social Worker looking for your next locum opportunity within a dedicated Child Protection Team? Bristol City Council is seeking a highly skilled practitioner to join its frontline service, working with children and families where robust safeguarding intervention is required to ensure children remain safe and achieve positive outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity for an accomplished social worker who enjoys managing complex cases,...

Position: IMS Core Engineer Location: Reading and customer offices as required Salary: On Application Duration: Ongoing Hours: Monday–Friday, 9am–5:30pm Overview of an IMS Core Engineer As an IMS Core Engineer, you’ll be part of a specialist technical team responsible for testing, validating, and supporting mission critical communication solutions. This role is key to ensuring the performance, availability, and reliability of IMS Core services across Core, RAN, and Application layers. You’ll work closely with test, support, and delivery teams to ensure systems meet customer expectations, contractual milestones, and service level agreements. Responsibilities of an IMS Core Engineer • Provide technical expertise in IMS Core and MCX, supporting the definition and execution of test strategies for all network elements and software releases. • Define and execute Functional, Performance, Accessibility, and Compatibility testing to agreed project timelines. • Perform end-to-end testing,...

Role: Prison Security Escort Location: HMP Huntercombe Standard Rate: £12.71 per hour + 33 days holiday pay Overtime rate: £16.89ph (overtime after 39 hours) Duration: Temporary with the potential to be long term Typical hours: Monday to Friday: 08:00-17:00 As a Prison Security Escort, you will work alongside the prison service, supporting our client who is responsible for the maintenance of the buildings. You will be a part of security team where you will escort and oversee contractors such as carpenters, plumbers and electricians, whilst they complete their maintenance work. Duties of a Prison Security Escort Include (but not limited to) Checking the identification of the contractors Booking in and out of the contractors Escorting contractors through the prison to their place of work Overseeing contractors whilst they are working Checking contractor tools are all accounted for prior to leaving work area Using the radio to request permission to move contractors within the...

Social Worker – Fostering Service – Somerset Council £38 per hour | Hybrid Working | 3 Days in the Office | Locum Opportunity Key Highlights: £38 per hour Fostering Service Hybrid working – 3 days per week in the office Supportive and well-established fostering team Opportunity to make a lasting impact on the lives of foster carers and children Flexible locum contract with competitive rates Are you an experienced Social Worker looking for your next challenge within a dedicated Fostering Service? Somerset Council is seeking a motivated and passionate Social Worker to join their fostering team, supporting foster carers and ensuring children receive safe, stable, and nurturing placements. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a progressive local authority that places children and carers at the heart of everything they do. You'll play a vital role in recruiting, assessing, supporting, and developing foster carers while contributing to positive outcomes for...