Responsibilities
Jayne has a broad remit for a range of strategic County Council functions covering improvement, policy, planning, communications and marketing as well as corporate governance. She is responsible for around 280 employees.
In her role leading the County Council’s Improvement Programme, Jayne is responsible for transforming the way in which services are delivered to the public and ensuring that the public receives the services they need in the most efficient and effective way ensuring value for money.
Jayne leads the Policy, Planning and Corporate Services Department which deliver a diverse range of strategic services, including:
Legal and Democratic Services provide legal advice, advocacy, assistance and support to the County Council across all of its activities and functions. The Group supports the Council's 67 CountyCouncillors and is responsible for administering all the meetings of Committees and Full Council.
The Corporate Strategy Group manages the overall performance of the Council, ensures that all policy is in accordance with the strategic priorities of the Authority, provides research and ensures that our obligations relating to equalities are met. The Group also supports economic development, prosperity and the growth of businesses within/around the County and manages complaints for the Council.
The Safer and Engaged Communities Group delivers the Council's responsibilities in respect of community safety, domestic violence and grant aid allocations. The Group provides support to community groups, the voluntary sector and parish councils.
The Planning Group is responsible for the development control function, minerals and waste planning and providing official planning comments on all major developments that affect the Council but are determined by other planning bodies. The Conservation team work with partners and communities to conserve and enhance Nottinghamshire’s natural environment and heritage including its historic buildings.
As the Authority’s Monitoring Officer, Jayne is ultimately responsible for ensuring that all the County Council's activities, business and associated decisions are carried out in accordance with the constitution as well as providing support to the Chief Executive in his role as Returning Officer during local elections. Jayne also undertakes this role on behalf of the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Panel.
Achievements
In 2006, Jayne established EMLawShare - a consortium of 56 public sector legal departments across England. The consortium works in partnership with five private sector legal firms to provide cost-effective legal services and training. The partnership has helped to deliver savings of more than £4 million in the first four years of its operation.
Jayne has twice been nominated for the East Midlands Business woman of the year. She is a former Chair of the Nottingham Employment Tribunal User Group and former member of the Law Society Committee for practice management standards. She has published a number of articles and has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences.
Under Jayne’s management, Legal Services secured and retains the LEXCEL quality standard for legal practices and the team were finalists at the 2010 Lawyer Awards for the Public Sector in-house team of the year. Within Democratic Services the Scrutiny team were highly commended in the 2009/10 Centre for Public Scrutiny awards and the Civic Office received the award of Civic Office of the year in 2009/10.
Background
Jayne was born in Doncaster and educated in Nottingham at Greenholme School and Bramcote Hills Grammar schools respectively. Jayne subsequently studied for her Law Degree and Law Society finals at Leicester and Nottingham Trent Universities. Jayne is a qualified solicitor and has worked at the Council since 1989 joining as an Assistant Solicitor from Derbyshire County Council. Prior to this she worked in the private sector. Jayne has held a number of roles at the Council, including the position of Assistant Chief Executive, and was appointed to her current post in March 2012.
Salary and pension
The overall remuneration package includes a basic salary as well as the amount the Council has to contribute to the Local Government Pension scheme. Senior managers also personally contribute 7.5% of their salary to the scheme. Senior managers are expected to be on call at all times including weekends. Nottinghamshire County Council does not at this time provide any benefits that an equivalent senior manager in the private sector might receive in addition to the basic salary - for example performance-related bonuses, private health care or company cars.
| Period | Total salary | Employer pension contributions at 18.3% |
| April 2013 - March 2014 (subject to national pay award negotiation)
| £121,371 | £22,211 |
Expenses claimed
All expenses are paid to employees in the course of carrying out duties in line with the Council's Travel and Accommodation Policy which is part of the nationally agreed terms and conditions of service and detailed in part six of the Council's Constitution, on pages 6-73 to 6-78. These conditions are supplemented by the Council's local conditions laid down in the Policy on the Payment of Travelling Allowances and Policy on the Payment of Subsistence Allowances, as set out in Appendices 11 and 12 of the Pay Policy Statement.
Expenses paid are liable to tax.
January - December 2012
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
April
| | £19.80
| | £19.80 |
July
| £65.21
| | | £65.21
|
August
| | £218.70
| £5.50
| £224.20
|
September
| | £25.20
| £32.00
| £57.20
|
| November | | £59.85 | | £59.85 |
| Total | £65.21 | £323.55 | £37.50 | £426.26
|
January - December 2011
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
| July | | £257.40 | £2.00 | £259.40 |
| November | | £40.95 | | £40.95 |
| Total | £0.00 | £298.35 | £2.00 | £300.35 |
January - December 2010
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
| January - December 2010 | | £465.20 | £22.80 | £488.00 |
| Total | £0.00 | £465.20 | £22.80 | £488.00 |
