Search Results for "officers"
Searching in version 12.0.0.0 - Found 520 results
Chapter 54: Introduction
Officers
General. The Council may engage such staff (referred to as officers) as it considers necessary to carry out its functions.
Chief Officers. The Chief Executive (designated as Head of Paid Service by Council) on behalf of the Council will engage persons for the following posts who will be designated chief officers:
The above posts may be subject to change from time to time in which case this Constitution will be updated as soon as reasonably practicable to reflect any change in the designated chief officers.
Statutory Officers
The Chief Executive will determine and publicise a description of the overall structure of the Council showing the management structure and deployment of officers. This is set out below.
Officers will comply with the Employees’ Code of Conduct and the Member/ Officer Relations’ Protocol set out in Part H section xx of this Constitution.
Chapter 56: Employee Code of Conduct
An Officer’s off-duty hours are their personal concern but they should not subordinate their duty to their private interests or put themselves in a position where their duty to their private interests conflict. The employing Authority should not attempt to preclude Officers from undertaking additional employment, but any such employment must not, in the view of the Authority conflict with or react detrimentally to the Authority’s confidence in the conduct of the Authority’s business.
Each directorate maintains a confidential register of declarations which must be in writing, giving information about the nature of the interest and the names of the parties and the functions involved. Chief officers and directors are also required to complete returns to be included in a confidential register maintained by Human Resources. These records may be accessed, on application to the monitoring officer, during the process of an investigation if the conduct of an employee is brought into question.
You should exercise discretion in offering and accepting hospitality. You should bear in mind how it might affect your relations with the party offering it and how it might be viewed by elected Members, other potential suppliers/contractors, the public and other officers. The criteria which determine whether you should accept hospitality from firms or other organisations include: