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Welcome Letter

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It’s such an exciting time to join Camden right now. 

We are a hugely ambitious organisation, with a flair for creativity and innovation, putting residents at the heart of what we do.

 

Our Leader talks about Camden’s proud and rebellious spirit, a spirit that brings together communities to bring about real social change, ensuring that no one gets left behind. 

 

The Finance and Procurement team play a vital role in supporting the delivery of Camden 2025. We couple our innovative, bold approach with excellent advice and sound financial management. 

 

Members agreed our three year medium term financial strategy (MTFS) in December. Unlike many traditional budget setting processes, Camden’s approach focused on the delivery of outcomes, investment in early intervention and achieving better value for money. Although our approach has been different, we have proposed a budget that will deliver better outcomes for our residents. Procurement will play a pivotal role in the delivery of these outcomes.

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Increasing Social Value in our procurement of services is of huge importance to Camden. Our policy is to pay London Living Wage on all of our contracts and we have also signed up to the Ethical Care Charter. Where we can, we will encourage our suppliers to employ local, small medium enterprises as well as creating employment opportunities and apprenticeships for the residents of our borough. 

 

Camden is a fantastic place to work! I have an excellent, highly skilled and effective team, all of whom are committed to delivering their best for the residents of Camden. We are constantly striving for continuous improvement and we encourage a culture of creating opportunities for individuals keen to progress. 

 

We offer many employee benefits hare at Camden including competitive salary, interest free season ticket/travel card loan scheme and an excellent pension scheme. We reward people for their performance and contribution to Camden through our annual variable payment scheme and furthermore, we value output over hours so we offer good flexible working arrangements. Our employees’ health and wellbeing is very important to us so we offer subsidised access to an onsite state of the art gym and swimming pool, at our centrally located offices by London King’s Cross station. Camden is a fantastic place to work.

Kathy Freeman

Director of Finance

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