Thank you for your interest in joining our team at Oxfordshire County Council. You’re potentially just a few steps away from the best career decision you’ll ever make. With exciting changes in the local government environment coming soon, it’s the perfect moment to join us.

You may already know that we're the local authority for Oxfordshire, committed to delivering top quality services and value for money on behalf of the county's 800,000+ residents. These services range from museums and libraries to the disposal of waste, from the maintenance of our roads to the provision of adult and children’s social care services. We employ almost 5,500 people to deliver those services.

Here are some of the things that you might not know about us:

• We received a Best Companies 1 Star accreditation in 2024 with a focus on Wellbeing, Fair Deal, and My Manager.
• We were ranked the 9th Best Big Company to Work for in the UK in 2024 by Best Companies.
• We were ranked the 6th Best Not-for-Profit Body to Work for in the UK in 2024 by Best Companies.

What makes us special?

Whatever you do, you’ll be able to look around and say, “I made a difference”. Because we’re all bringing lasting change to people’s lives in Oxfordshire. Every day, you’ll be challenged in a new way, supported by your team, in an organisation that is free-thinking, flexible, and helps people achieve their ambitions. Working for us, you can create a unique career for yourself – while raising the bar for the future of the UK public sector, together.

Our focus for the past year has been shaping our organisation to be successful and sustainable for the future. We’re on a journey to Deliver the Future Together and become:

• An employer of choice, where everyone recommends working here
• A partner of choice, nurturing purposeful relationships with partners who feel well supported by us
• A place shaper of choice, where we act as a convener across public, private and community groups to shape and lead an ambitious and more equal future for our place and our residents

Delivering the Future Together

We’re on an exciting journey to Deliver the Future Together. By embracing change and new ways of working, we’ll secure a successful and sustainable future and achieve our goals of becoming an employer, partner and place shaper of choice.

Our future challenges

As we move into the future, the nature of the challenges we face and how we respond will be very different. Having leaders that can create and lead an organisation that is forward thinking, collaborative, and inclusive, which embraces continuous improvement and holds itself to account will be important in addressing these challenges.

Leading through our values and behaviours

Our values are at the heart of all we do here at Oxfordshire County Council. We all share a common purpose to deliver excellence for the residents of Oxfordshire. Our 5 values act as a guide to how the organisation and our people should approach everything we do. Leading through these values every day, putting them front and centre of every behaviour, decision and action will unite us as we strive to deliver this excellence together. By doing this we will attract and retain great talent, we will reward great performance, we will create a positive environment where people can thrive and grow, we will nurture talent and create excellent leaders for now and the future.

Our purpose

We’re proud of the job we do and the communities we serve. We provide over 800,000 local people and businesses with day-to-day services they can trust. Join us and help shape the future for Oxfordshire.

How we work

With us you'll get the care and support you need to develop. If you like a bit of variety, or thrive on innovation, then you’re in the right place. We’ll give you plenty of opportunities to make your job as different and interesting as possible.

Your career journey

We need the best from our team and want them to enjoy what they do. Coaching and mentoring schemes, regular one-to-ones, on the job training and review, and an online portal to help you manage your own development - it’s all designed to help you grow in your role.

Financial perks

We offer competitive pay and up to 32 days paid holiday every year, with the chance to buy more. You’ll also be enrolled into our pension scheme where we contribute 19.9 per cent. For some roles there is also help with relocation expenses and settling in costs. Our bike and green car purchase schemes also make moving around financially flexible.

Family friendly

Family comes first, that’s why we’ve built a range of different benefits to support you. As well as our flexible ways of working around the role you do, you can make the most of our maternity and paternity schemes, and tax-saving childcare vouchers. But family isn’t just about the kids. If you have elderly relatives to care for, we’ll help out there too.

Rewards and recognition

With Vivup highfive, our colleague recognition scheme, we celebrate success across the organisation. Vivup also gives great savings on holidays, insurance, eating out and more.

Health and wellbeing

Wellbeing is a big priority for us. You’ll get access to a range of different support opportunities such as our round the clock employee assistance programme. Salary Finance is also on-hand to help with financial wellbeing. There’s also the chance to manage your health and wellbeing through regular one-to-one sessions and team meetings.

The environment

We’re committed to Oxfordshire becoming net-zero by 2030 and enabling us to be carbon neutral before 2050. Our Climate Action Framework sets out how we will tackle climate change. We’re also signed-up to the UN’s Race to Zero, a global campaign to bring individuals, businesses, and the public sector together to fight the climate crisis.

Feeling inspired? Join us and help us shape our 2025 moments and beyond!