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At Dorset Council, we are a team with diverse skills, backgrounds and experiences. We all work together to make Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Join us and you’ll face exciting challenges like:

  • tackling digital exclusion
  • providing quality housing and care for local people
  • improving education
  • helping our children and young people to thrive
  • building partnerships to strengthen local communities
  • supporting economic growth
  • protecting our natural environment, including England’s only natural UNESCO World Heritage Site

You will play a key part in improving the lives of the people who call Dorset home.

What we can offer you

We want you to build a rewarding and successful career with us. That is why we offer a generous range of benefits. They are designed to help you perform at your best by providing the work/life balance to support your wellbeing and encouraging your personal and professional growth.
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At Dorset Council, we are a team with diverse skills, backgrounds and experiences. We all work together to make Dorset a great place to live, work and visit. Join us and you’ll face exciting challenges like:

  • tackling digital exclusion
  • providing quality housing and care for local people
  • improving education
  • helping our children and young people to thrive
  • building partnerships to strengthen local communities
  • supporting economic growth
  • protecting our natural environment, including England’s only natural UNESCO World Heritage Site

You will play a key part in improving the lives of the people who call Dorset home.

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Our approach to recruitment

Our recruitment process is open, fair, promotes equality. The process will be proportionate to the role advertised. We have a duty to ensure that anyone who applies to work with us is not discriminated against in any way. We hope that our recruitment process can put you at ease, bring out the best in you. We want to make you feel welcome at Dorset Council.

We respect you

We respect and recognise the unique qualities every individual brings to our team. That is why we’re committed to being an inclusive organisation that supports a diverse workforce – a Disability Confident employer.

We encourage an environment where everyone’s a potential leader, because we all feel valued for who we are. It is why we support a range of employee networks that give different groups a voice to challenge us and promote change.
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