London Borough of Camden

🌟 Exciting Opportunity with the NCL Health and Social Care Academy! 🌟 The North Central London (NCL) Health and Social Care Academy is a dedicated team helping those furthest from work find employment in the Health and Social Care sector. We collaborate with a diverse range of partners, including Local Further Education Colleges, Inclusive Economy Teams, The NCL Integrated Care Board (ICB), and Primary Care Training Hubs. We are thrilled to announce a unique role focused on community engagement, specialising in International Recruitment. This role involves: 🔹 Engaging with displaced international recruits whose social care sponsor lost or revoked their license. 🔹 Collaborating with social care employers to enhance their recruitment pipelines and address sector challenges through innovative solutions. 🔹 Developing best practices for in-work support and maximizing staff retention. 🔹 Hybrid responsibilities encompassing employer engagement, resident engagement, and job brokerage for displaced workers. North London Councils (NLC) envision a future where local employers can recruit more efficiently and engage more actively within their communities. This role will spearhead sector-specific initiatives to foster employer engagement in Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington, driving growth in the health and social care sectors. Join us in making a difference and supporting our community! 🔗 Apply Now https://lnkd.in/eaFR2jXQ #HealthCare #SocialCare #CommunityEngagement #JobOpportunity #NCLAcademy #InternationalRecruits #EmployerEngagement #NorthLondonCouncils

We're running a consultation on creating a trial motor traffic-free zone on a section of Camden High Street!   The High Street is an iconic destination for visitors and a key shopping and transport hub for locals, but large crowds coupled with traffic can negatively affect visitors' experiences. That's why we're proposing to trial a motor traffic-free zone on the northern section of the High Street. This would improve pedestrian safety, improve air quality, provide more space for businesses, encourage customers to spend more time in the reclaimed space for people and allow us to host cultural activities that would celebrate Camden's unique culture.   This consultation process is key for us to receive feedback on our proposals from key stakeholders, but it also provides a forum for locals, visitors, businesses and more to share their ideas on how they can bring about positive change in their community.   Input from our community helps us learn - so play your part and respond to our consultation now! More information on the proposals and survey available here: https://lnkd.in/ds4XNZ2u

We’d like to send a huge thank you to everyone who helped the Camden election count run smoothly last week 👏 Since last year there’s been a lot of work happening behind the scenes to prepare for the general election – so when it was called just over six weeks ago, we got to work transforming five floors of our council offices at 5 Pancras Square into the count venue for our two Camden constituencies, Holborn & St Pancras and Hampstead & Highgate. It takes a lot of people to run a successful count – a huge thank you to teams across the council who pulled together under Acting Returning Officer (also Camden Council Chief Executive) Jenny Rowlands. Our teams managed everything from the recruitment of 320 count staff, to preparing the building’s systems and set up and making sure it looked the part, to looking after national TV broadcasters so they had everything they needed to report live from the count. You might have spotted some of them on your TV screens alongside some familiar faces that night. We’d also like to thank all of our staff for your hard work in the run up to election day - everyone who worked at a polling station on Thursday, on the night of the count, and of course to all our teams who continued to provide council services for our residents. This truly was a team effort!

📣 Alfred Place Gardens wins another Pineapple Award! We are very excited to share that the West End Project’s brand new public space at Princes Circus has the Public Space category award at the Pineapple Awards. Sponsored by the Design Council, the awards showcase the best urban developments from across the UK and abroad. This is the second Pineapple Award that the project has won, having picked up joint winner in the Future Place category back in 2019. Princes Circus marks the end of the West End Project’s £40m transformation of the Tottenham Court Road area. The new space has beautiful planting beds with spacious seating to enjoy - the beautiful Grade II listed fountain has also been restored to return as an ornamental centrepiece. Why not potter down and explore? #PrincesCircus #Camden #TottenhamCourtRoad #Council #Redevelopment #Planning

🎉 Welcome to Nana Bonsu, Director of Relational Practice, Children and Learning Nana Bonsu, our new Director of Relational Practice is now in post. Nana will be leading on embedding relational practice into the Directorate. 💬 Nana says: “When I saw the role for Director of Relational Practice at Camden, my immediate reaction was excitement and gravitas. It is an ambitious role, creating a coherent relational approach to all aspects of council run services.” “As Director of Relational Practice, what Relational Practice means to me is an understanding that we are all connected in systems. Systems that are malleable and offer feedback that helps us to consider where we need to make changes for social justice and equality. "I truly believe we can create the social worlds we wish to live in, through our language, dialogue, intentionality, and actions. I look forward to further embedding this into Camden culture and practice.” We are excited to welcome Nana, and to work with her to ensure the best possible outcomes for children and families in Camden. #NewInPost #Director #Camden #LocalAuthority

🌟 Join Our Adult Early Help Team: Make a Real Difference in People's Lives 🌟 Are you passionate about making a positive impact on adults facing complex challenges? Our Adult Early Help team supports individuals dealing with mental health issues, poor physical health, criminal justice involvement, or housing instability. We are recruiting to the following: 🔹 Adult Early Help Pilot Lead: Drive the development and consolidation of our offer beyond the pilot phase. Support a team of four autonomous workers with personal budgets to creatively solve problems and help adults achieve their goals. 🔹 4 Adult Early Help Workers: Shape the Adult Early Help offer by bringing your insights to consolidate a practical vision beyond the pilot phase. 👌 Interested? Join our webinar on Friday 7th June to see if these roles are right for you: https://lnkd.in/g5c5dEKJ To apply for either role, follow link to our career site: https://lnkd.in/gffncXiB #SocialWork #MentalHealth #CommunitySupport #CareerOpportunity #JoinOurTeam

📣 Camden's Community Investment Programme is in the running for another housebuilding award!    Our New Homes for Small Sites team working with Inner Circle Consulting have been shortlisted for an Award for Increased Housing Delivery for this year’s Planning and Placemaking Awards.   With funding from the Mayor of London’s Small Sites, Small Builders Fund, we have been able to build on our small sites community engagement programme through our ‘Call for Ideas’ and work towards a robust risk-assessment toolkit to assess and categorise suggested areas with the aim of bringing more sites forward for the delivery of new homes in our borough.    This will allow us to cut down on unnecessary costs and boost new home delivery – helping us address the housing crisis in an innovative way, efficient way that is representative of Camden residents' housing needs and wishes.   📅 Winners are announced June 13 – stay tuned for updates!    #Housing #Construction #Development #PlanningAndPlacemakingAwards #Housebuilding #Camden

📣 Introducing Camden’s new Mayor: Councillor Samata Khatoon. She has taken over from Councillor Rahman following the Mayor making ceremony at Camden Town Hall, with Councillor Eddie Hanson being named as the new Deputy Mayor of Camden. Cllr Khatoon has held several voluntary roles in Camden including as a Trustee of New Horizon Youth Centre, Trustee of St Pancras Welfare Trust, Parent Governor at Edith Neville Primary School, Treasurer at Bangla Shur and Women’s Officer at The Chunarughat Association. She is also currently a Governor at the Working Men’s College. 💬 Cllr Khatoon said at the Mayor making ceremony at Camden Town Hall: "I am particularly focused on supporting young people who are at risk of homelessness and championing the positive impact of introducing young people to the world of arts, which has a remarkable ability to stimulate curiosity, creativity, and imagination." #Mayor #Camden #TownHall #Council #LocalAuthority

📣 Zarin Bakhshzaad has been elected as Camden’s new Youth MP in a boroughwide election which took place in schools and youth centres. Zarin, 17, a former La Sainte Union Catholic Secondary School student who is now studying for her A-levels at South Hampstead High School, GDST, received 962 votes out of a staggering total 4,818 votes cast – about 20 per cent of the vote. Meanwhile, Niesha Akyeampong, 14, and Harvey O'Brien, 13, have been elected as the borough’s new Deputy Youth MPs. Niesha is a student at Maria Fidelis Catholic School and Harvey attends Acland Burghley School. They will be the voice for Camden young people, seeking to put forward their interests in local decision-making, and representing the views and interests of local young people at regional and national level. 🌠 Let's wish the three young people all the best in their two-year term of office. #Camden #YouthMP #YouthParticipation #LocalAuthority #Council

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Mount Anvil as our development partner to build new homes in the heart of Gospel Oak, as part of Phase II of the Bacton Community Investment Programme (CIP) #redevelopment.   Mount Anvil will work closely with the Council, and in consultation with the community, to deliver at least 61 social rent homes of varying sizes to tackle overcrowding.   Through the new partnership, Mount Anvil and Camden will invest in the local community both through the project itself, but also through wider #socialvalue commitments.   With only 6% of our funding for building and refurbishing homes coming from central government, we must continue to find ways to innovate to further housebuilding progress.   Adopting redevelopment partnership models like this will enable us to unlock investment to build more affordable housing across Camden whilst ensuring our financial resilience.   Find out more about our new partnership with Mount Anvil: https://lnkd.in/gbpb37zx