Organisational Structure

The Senior Management Team

The Senior Management Team of the Authority comprises of:

• The Chief Executive
• The Director of Finance
• The Director of Corporate and Legal Services
• Communities Director

Senior Management Salaries

*The Chief Executive is remunerated under a contract for services and is engaged for a set number of days per year. Expenses are claimed according to the Council's usual policies for employees. The contract sum will be increased by the % increase in the Chief Officers' pay award determined by Council, on 01 January in any year following the implementation of the pay award. The remuneration package for the Chief Executive was approved by Council on 29 September 2011. The contract sum is £65,000 per annum.

Service Areas and Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the senior management are:

The Chief Executive

The Chief Executive has responsibility for overall management of the Authority, its vision and strategy and is also the Council's Head of Paid Service.

The Department of Finance

The Director of Finance has responsibility for this department, which is organised into four sections as follows:

• Revenues and Benefits
• Financial Services
• IT Services (part of shared service with South Lakeland District Council)
• Customer Services

The department provides a mix of support services and front line services. The main support services are Internal Audit, Financial Advice and Accountancy, Insurance and Risk Management, Payroll, Purchasing, Treasury Management, Creditors, Sundry Debtors, and IT services. The main front line services for this department are Customer Services, Housing and Council Tax Benefits, Council Tax and Business Rates.

The Department of Corporate and Legal Services

The Director of Corporate and Legal Services has overall responsibility for the department, which is organised into three sections as follows:

• Legal Services
• Human Resources
• Property and Contracts

The department provides a range of services including: the provision of legal advice and support to members and client departments; the provision of the Council's licensing and land charges services; the arrangement of national and local elections; personnel functions or human resources, health and safety, training, recruitment and retention and the provision of administrative support. Since the restructure the property and contracts section has moved into the department providing contract management for; refuse collection, street cleansing, grounds maintenance and building cleaning; and technical consultancy, facilities management, engineering, parking and land management.

The Director is the Returning Officer for national and local elections.

The Department of Communities

The Communities Director has responsibility for this new department, which is organised into three sections as follows:

• Planning Services
• Environmental Services
• Communities

Planning Services encompasses planning policy which involves setting the planning policy framework for the district and managing building conservation policy and tree services, and developing management; dealing with planning applications and approvals, enforcement, and building regulation services.

Environmental Services - This section includes; food safety, health and safety enforcement, environmental pollution, dog warden, pest control, housing , including grants, private housing conditions and enforcement, homelessness and social housing services.

Communities - This new section incorporates a range of services; Community empowerment and support, consultation and communication services and web site maintenance. Also included is policy research including development and maintenance of the corporate plan and its performance monitoring.

Additionally economic development and town centre support and regeneration services including; events and produce markets, tourism promotion and support to tourist information centres. Staff in this section also manage the leisure services contract and sports facilities which provide sport and cultural services (including Penrith museum). Additionally there are responsibilities for participation in the crime reduction, children's partnership and equalities work across the district.

Senior Management - Job Descriptions

The job descriptions for the Chief Officers are currently being revised to take into account the recent structural and functional changes with the purpose of ensuring that the job descriptions are fit for purpose and will be published in due course.

The Chief Executive's job description is available to view at the bottom of this web page.

Organisational Scale

Employees by Department:

* The above information is based on the organisation's structure as at 1st February 2012. As a result of the Council's recent reorganisation the structure is set to reduce to 144.25 FTE from 1st April 2012. The information on this web page will be updated around the 1st April 2012.

Budget Expenditure by Department:

Budgets for 2012/3013. Waiting to be approved by Executive on 31 January 2012 by the Executive. Any significant amendments will be published after this date.

The 'pay-multiple' - Overview of the Council

The mean (average) average salary is defined as the total estimated salaries payable in 2012/13 for the full permanent establishment (headcount) divided by the Full Time Equivalent (FTE) of the full establishment. The pay multiple between the mean (average) salary at the Council (£25,192) and the highest paid employee (Chief Officer) is 1:2.5. The pay multiple between the "lowest paid employee" (£12,145) and the highest paid employee (Chief Officer) is 1:5.

The definition of "lowest-paid employees" adopted by the authority for the purposes of this Pay Policy Statement is those employees on the lowest pay point in use by the authority. The lowest pay point in the authority and in use by the authority at 1 February 2012 is Grade A; SCP 4-6; £12145 - £12489.

Workforce Profile

Organisation Structure Overview

• Protected Characteristics Workforce Profile - 31 December 2011 (PDF: 163Kb / 2 pages)
• Organisational Structure Overview (PDF: 74Kb / 1 page)
• Director of Corporate and Legal Services - Structure overview (PDF: 23Kb / 1 page)
• Legal Services - Structure Overview (PDF: 62Kb / 1 page)
• Structure of Human Resources section (PDF: 17Kb / 1 page)
• Structure chart for Secretarial Services (PDF: 21Kb / 1 page)
• Structure for the Department of Finance (PDF: 22Kb / 1 page)
• Structure chart for Financial Services (PDF: 20Kb / 1 page)
• Structure chart for the Revenues and Benefits section (PDF: 26Kb / 2 pages)
• Structure chart for the IT Services section (PDF: 20Kb / 1 pages)
• Structure chart of Customer Services section (PDF: 21Kb / 1 pages)
• Structure chart for the Communities Director and department of Communities (PDF: 32Kb / pages)
• Structure chart of the Communities section (PDF: 25Kb / 1 page)
• Structure chart for the Environmental Services section (PDF: 27Kb / 1 page)
• Structure chart for Planning Services section (PDF: 24Kb / 1 page)
• Job Description - Chief Executive (PDF: 38Kb / 1 page)

For further information:

• Contact: Human Resources
• Telephone: 01768 212210 / 212243
• Email: human.resources@eden.gov.uk
• Fax: 01768 890470
• Address: Eden District Council, Town Hall, Penrith, Cumbria CA11 7QF