Senior Officer Employment Committee

It is the role of the Senior Officer Employment Committee, subject to legal requirements relating to the Council’s Statutory Officers and to the Officer Employment Procedure Rules in Part 4 of the Constitution, to:

·       consider and make recommendations to the Council on all matters relating to the appointment of the Chief Executive and the dismissal of the Chief Executive, Monitoring Officer and Chief Finance Officer;  

·       determine all matters relating to the appointment of Executive Directors and other Officers who report directly to the Chief Executive, and the Council’s Statutory Chief Officers, other than the Chief Executive;  

·       determine all matters relating to the dismissal of Executive Directors and other Officers who report directly to the Chief Executive, and the Council’s Statutory Officers, other than the Chief Executive, Monitoring Officer and Chief Finance Officer;  

·       determine all matters relating to the discipline short of dismissal of Executive Directors and other Officers who report directly to the Chief Executive, and the Council’s Statutory Officers; and  

·       determine all matters relating to the appointment, discipline and dismissal of Officers who report directly to any of the Officers described above (other than the Monitoring Officer) for all or most of their duties (but not any person whose duties are solely secretarial or clerical).

It may establish such Sub-Committees as appropriate to undertake recruitment and to hear individual matters, which may include authority to make appointments and other decisions, and authority to make recommendations direct to the Council.

As a lot of the work deals with individual cases, meetings may not be open to members of the public.