282 government jobs found in Swindon

Project Manager (Local Government Transformation) - Paying up to £600 Per Day, Inside IR35, Based in Reading, Hybrid Working (On site 2 or 3 days per week), To Start ASAP, 6 Month Contract Your new company Step into a key delivery role within a large, forward-thinking Upper Tier Authority delivering a high-profile Local Government Reorganisation (LGR). This is a once in a generation transformation programme that will reshape how services are delivered, bringing together multiple councils into a single, modern, unitary organisation. The programme is now moving from proposal into delivery, with a clear focus on pace, coordination and execution. As a result, there is strong demand for Project Managers who have recently been involved in LGR activity, particularly during early-stage conversations and proposal development within other local authorities, in order to maintain momentum and delivery confidence from day one. Your new role This is a hands-on Project Manager role...

Digital & Technology Programme Manager – Local Government Location: Southwest London (Hybrid – 1–2 days per week onsite) Contract: Initial 6 months (likely extension) Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35) Overview: Our local authority client is seeking an experienced Digital & Technology Programme Manager to join their Digital & Innovation team, leading a broad portfolio of enterprise technology and business transformation projects. While Housing is becoming an increasingly strategic area, the majority of the programme covers digital transformation across Planning, Public Protection, Public Realm, Highways, Land Charges, Parking and Corporate Services. The successful candidate will inherit several live programmes while initiating and delivering new projects from inception. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives managing multiple stakeholders, suppliers and technology workstreams within a complex local government environment. The Role: You will be...

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...

CYBER SECURITY ANALYST (SOC ANALYST) CCL Global are currently recruiting for a Cyber Security Analyst to support a high-security Security Operations Centre (SOC) environment within a critical national infrastructure setting. This role will play a key part in protecting enterprise systems by monitoring, detecting, analysing, and responding to cyber security threats in real time. Type of Contract: Contract (Inside IR35) Location: Bath (100% office) Contract Length: Until April 2027 Key Duties Will Include: * Monitor, investigate, and triage security events and alerts within a live SOC environment. * Analyse security incidents to determine scope, impact, and priority, ensuring appropriate escalation and response. * Manage end-to-end incident response activities from detection through to resolution. * Support the development and enhancement of SIEM use cases, detection rules, analytics, and playbooks. * Conduct real-time analysis of logs and security data to...

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...

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...

Oracle Data Warehouse Developer (SC Cleared) Andover (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract £450-£500/day (Outside IR35) Oracle Data Warehouse Developer needed with active SC Security Clearance. 6 Month Contract based in Andover (Hybrid). Start ASAP in July 2026. Hybrid Working - 3 days/week remote (WFH), and 2 days/week working on-site. Paying up to £450-£500/day (Outside IR35). A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation on a large-scale Government project: Designing, developing + implementing Oracle Data Warehouse solutions including data modelling + integration. RPD Repository design in Oracle Analytics. Designing, developing + implementing Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) mappings for ETL processes. Designing, developing + implementing Oracle Analytics Server (OAS) security including users, roles + data-level security. Developing + implementing OAS reports and dashboards to support business analytics and reporting needs. Providing Production Support for existing...

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...

Our client Reading Borough Council is looking for a Higher Specialist Social Worker to join their Single Point of Access team. Job Purpose This role is situated within the front door for early help and safeguarding. You will work as part of a team to gather, review and evaluate information in regard to children's needs, including children in need of help, intervention and protection. This is not a case holding role; the role requires a number of children and families to be considered and for informed and timely recommendations to promote the welfare of children, ensuring they receive the help they need at the time they need this. Your role Work within BFfC policy procedures and good practice guidelines in order to meet the needs of children enabling them to source the help, support and protection they need. Ensure and deliver on the timely progression of contacts, promoting a whole family approach while focusing on the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. Be...

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...

Oracle Fusion HCM Payroll Developer SC Cleared | Hybrid (Bristol – 3 days onsite) | Contract to March 2027 | Inside IR35 - £613 PD Intex are partnered with a Central Government corporation that are seeking an experienced Oracle Fusion HCM Payroll Developer to join a major government transformation programme supporting one of the UK's largest Oracle Cloud Payroll environments. This is an opportunity to play a key role in the ongoing enhancement and development of a business-critical payroll platform, delivering high-priority payroll changes, pay awards and continuous improvements within a DevOps delivery environment. The Role Working within an experienced Oracle HCM team, you will be responsible for developing, configuring and supporting Oracle Fusion Payroll solutions while collaborating with functional teams, business stakeholders and technical specialists to deliver payroll enhancements and integrations. This is an operational development role rather than a project-only...