Responsibilities
Tim has responsibility for over 3,000 staff and a net budget of around £120 million, which equates to 23% of the Authority's net budget.
Tim manages many of the most visible frontline services including highways, transport, waste and recycling and the catering, cleaning and landscaping services that the Council provides to many local schools.
Tim also has responsibility for the Council's support services that are essential in ensuring the delivery of the Council's services including finance, HR and customer services, procurement, property and ICT.
Tim is heavily involved in planning the resources available to the Council - its people and money - to help maximise the use of the Authority's finances and assets to deliver value for money services to people living in Nottinghamshire.
Achievements
Tim has been a key player in the Council’s transformation and improvement programme. He has generated significant savings across the Council by introducing more modern ways of working and automated systems to help streamline processes and improve efficiency.
In his first 18 months, Tim was responsible for the former Corporate Services department and established the framework and key priorities for the Council’s transformation and improvement programme. This included establishing major change initiatives to introduce a new Business Management System, reforming procurement and reducing the number of buildings the Council owns to achieve savings and make those retained more flexible.
Since taking on Highways, Transport, Waste and Catering and Facilities Management in December 2010 Tim has been determining the right way forward for the provision of these key operational services.
Background
Tim joined Nottinghamshire County Council in 2009 following four years with Wiltshire County Council as the Council's service director for ICT and procurement. Tim led on the creation of Wiltshire Council as a unitary authority.
Prior to his local government experience, Tim served for 27 years with the Royal Marines reaching the rank of Brigadier and fulfilling significant roles as the Corporate Director for the Defence Communications Service Agency and acting as Deputy Defence Attaché at the British Embassy in Washington. This was after military posts in all three Commando units and service in Northern Ireland, Cyprus and Iraq.
Tim completed a BA Geography degree at London University in 1975, attended and instructed at the Army Staff College and attended the year-long Royal College of Defence Studies in 1998.
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 |
March
| | £64.80
| £155.00
| £219.80
|
April
| | | £55.50
| £55.50
|
May
| | £146.70
|
| £146.70
|
August
| £65.21
| | | £65.21
|
September
| | £212.40
| £157.00
| £369.40
|
| October | | | £174.00 | £174.00 |
| November | | £193.05 | £15.50 | £208.55 |
| Total | £65.21 | £616.95 | £557.00
| £1,239.16 |
January - December 2011
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
| April | | | £20.50 | £20.50 |
| June | | £206.30 | £20.50 | £226.80 |
| October | | £88.20 | £48.60 | £136.80 |
| November | | | £41.00 | £41.00 |
| December | | £193.50 | £7.70 | £201.20 |
| Total | £0.00 | £488.00 | £138.30 | £626.30 |
January - December 2010
| Month | Accommodation costs | Business mileage | Other expenses including car parking, train fares | Total |
| April
| |
| £20.50 (train fare)
| £20.50
|
| June | |
| £20.50 (train fare) | £20.50
|
October
| | | £38.60 (train fare)
| £38.60 |
| November | |
| £41.00 (train fare)
| £41.00
|
| Total | £0.00 | £0.00 | £120.60
| £120.60
|
