Essex County Council

About Us

We look after a large, diverse, complex region of the country. But our approach to meeting the needs of our 1.4 million residents is simple. We recruit creative, collaborative, talented people, and free them up to make an impact to be proud of.

Join us and you’ll be trusted to take control, manage change and do career-defining work. Safe in the knowledge that we’re right behind you with more opportunities, more development and more support.

What it’s like to work for us?

Wellbeing is everything.

Your wellbeing couldn’t be more important. We treat this as a moral obligation, but it’s so much more than that. A healthy, content and resilient workforce is a productive one – and when you serve the people of Essex in the wide variety of life-enhancing ways that we do, this is essential.

Our approach to wellbeing:

We work closely with all of our colleagues to provide strong and sophisticated wellbeing support based on their needs. We’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far, but our new strategy will take us to a whole new place for mental, physical, social and financial wellbeing.

The type of jobs we recruit for?

Multiple roles across our functions: Adult Social Care, Children and Families Social Care, Corporate Services, Finance and Technology, Customer Services, Place and Public Health, Education.