Sheffield City Council Jobs

There are a wide range of Sheffield City Council jobs. A few examples of the variety of occupations employed by the council are teachers, educational psychologists, cooks, pollution control technicians, traffic planners, curators, lifeguards, social workers, solicitors, and IT programmers. But there may be problems on the horizon. A BBC article earlier this year stated that as much as 1,000 Sheffield council employees could lose their jobs over the next three to five years.

And Sheffield is not the only city in the UK with the sort of gloomy news. Other local authorities have indicated they may also have to axe a number of their council jobs. The article said that local authorities were planning cuts because they anticipated a fall in government funding. Sheffield is hoping to save £18m during the period these cuts are expected to take place. But for the time being, it is probably good news to note that the council is still hiring. At the time this article was written, there were 18 job adverts on the council’s general vacancies webpage. On the council’s school vacancies webpage, the number of job adverts shot up to 91.

The city council currently employs about 18,000 people. They are the workforce that provides around 550 services to the 535,000 or so citizens of Sheffield. These employees and the services they provide are organised into four directorates: chief executive’s directorate; children and young people’s directorate; development; environment and leisure; and neighbourhoods and community care. Those 18,000 people who are employed in a Sheffield City Council job are beneficiaries of the council’s decent benefits package.

To begin with, the council grants its full time employees at least 25 days of annual holiday. After five years of service to the council, that amount jumps to 30 days. They are also paid for eight public holidays each year.

Speaking of time off, sometimes people get sick or injured. In the case of Sheffield city employees, they are entitled to one month of sick leave at full pay during their first year of service to the council. Employees who have more than five years of service with the council are entitled to six months of full pay and six months of half pay sick leave. Another form of leave granted by the council would be maternity leave. Here, new moms are allowed to be off work for 52 weeks while they look after their new born babies.

If the new mom has worked for the city council for more than one year, she’s entitled to 13 weeks of full pay and 13 weeks of half pay. For those with less than one year service with the council, they will have to rely on statutory maternity pay, if they are eligible. Fathers of new born are allowed 10 days paid leave.

A normal week for a council employee is 37 hours; however, there are flexible work patterns available to most. But that information is only provided once an applicant has landed the job. Landing the job also means that the new employee will be subject to six months of probation. Salaries are paid in 12 equal instalments on the 30th of each month or the last business day before. Yearly raises are incremental until the employee reaches the maximum pay scale for their Sheffield City Council job.