Serving the highland community
As you would expect from the largest employer in Highland, we have an unrivalled range of excellent opportunities. You can develop your career with us right across the spectrum of professional and trade areas. Whatever your educational background, whatever your age, whether you have little work experience or a lot, there are jobs at Highland Council for everyone. With our excellent job package and unique flexibility, we offer you much more than the average employer.
Based in local communities across the Highlands, our committed workforce delivers the essential services that support our outstanding natural environment and safe communities. What could be more essential than educating our children, caring for vulnerable people, managing household waste, building our roads and keeping them clear?
Whichever role you join us in; we’re committed to providing you with a quality job package. We reward our staff with excellent conditions including generous leave entitlement, training and promotion opportunities and a final salary pension scheme. And because we want to recruit the best people and retain them, you’ll enjoy a competitive salary. No surprise that we have high levels of staff satisfaction.
Why the highland council?
In return for your dedication and enthusiasm we offer stimulating, busy and varied opportunities. You can also count on us to support you in combining a balance between your work and home life through flexible working practices such as job-sharing, home working, term time working, flexible working patterns and flexitime.
Whatever your educational background, whatever your age, whether you have little work experience or a lot, there are jobs at Highland Council for everyone. Did you know, for example, that our workforce is made up of such diverse groups as civil engineers, building workers, environmental health officers, social workers, teachers, grave diggers, sports and leisure assistants, architects, solicitors and nursery nurses, to name but a few?
And remember, if you cannot work full time, most of our jobs are open to job sharing and there is also a range of part time, standby, casual and sessional jobs.
You’ll find a level playing field here. Providing equality of opportunity for all applicants and employees is among our most important goals and values. We’re just looking for the best candidate. Nothing else matters. So we welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We’ll match your commitment all the way with personal development opportunities. You’ll start with our induction programme which helps all new employees get to know about us. The learning doesn’t stop there, we’ll give you all the training you need for your role. We have a regular review system which focuses on your development needs and gives you the chance to talk about your job, and your future.
You are our most valuable asset when you work for us, so we care about improving your health, welfare and training. We’ll manage your workload and stress levels, your working environment and support you through ill health. But we’ll also promote healthy living options for you through a range of events and initiatives.
We are a forward thinking and forward looking organisation and among the best run councils in Scotland. Through the use of new technology, we are at the forefront of modernising the way that we operate and deliver services. This makes us more efficient and means that our customers come first. We are committed to supporting staff to manage and deliver this exciting but challenging agenda.