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Our team has been around since Morgan Hunt's inception into public sector recruitment in 2001 and is therefore a core part of our business heritage and pedigree. In fact, this team placed our very first temporary candidate, George Miller, whose name went on to inspire our highest achieving internal award.

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Together we have a combined 45 years of experience within the sector, recruiting into both local authorities and central government.

We recruit everyone from entry level administrative and support staff, through to team leaders, managers, and department heads within the following professions:

Revenues and benefits
Business support and customer services
Housing management and homelessness
Finance
HR
Policy and strategy
Marketing and communications
Procurement

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IR35 - Genuine Solution Ahead?

12 October 2022

Is the repeal of the 2017 and 2021 reforms to the off-payroll working rules as part of last month’s ’Mini Budget’ statement the good news our contractors, employers and agencies wanted? What do you think? Are you ready for a change and do we actually know what the new legislation will mean?

Dave Hedges is a tax partner at Azets and says there is “an absence of fine detail” around how HMRC will manage the transition over the coming months. “While the changes are welcome and have been lobbied for, we are advising clients throughout the engagement chain to tread carefully pending clarification,” he said.

Some questions remain following the chancellor’s announcement that the Off-Payroll Working (OPW) rules are to be repealed from April 6th 2023. There are three main reasons for this:

Is it really going to happen? Nothing has changed yet and we have a Budget coming up in November, preceded by a government already doing a U-turn on its 45p tax rate plan. The possibility of further U-turns therefore seems significant. Fingers crossed that this promised repeal of the OPW rules goes ahead. But it’s not certain.
End-clients (both public and private sectors), agencies, umbrella companies, accountants and IR35/OPW advisers are all taking stock and wondering how this could affect their business. And yes, that goes for me too!
Contractors are realising that unless they have always been outside IR35 and working for ‘small’ companies (not affected by the OPW rules), that their own circumstances are complicated. Notably where the contractor is:
1. currently with an umbrella, or
2. holding an SDS where the client has stated ‘inside IR35’, or;
3. regularly jumping between their PSC and an umbrella company depending on the IR35/OPW assessment.

At this stage (Q4 2022), nobody knows how the repeal of the OPW rules will work. That’s the unpopular, hard truth. Many commentators are reaching for their crystal balls, with some suggesting that there will be new rules for contractors added onto the IR35 rules of old (2000), such as requiring contractors to complete Status Determination Statements. There’s even the odd whisper that end-clients will continue to determine IR35 status; that blanket bans on using PSCs will continue indefinitely, and that HMRC will declare some sort of ‘amnesty’ on prior SDSs with ‘inside’ results. As interesting as they are, these really are only opinions at this stage and should be taken as nothing more.

So what can we do now? Every part of the contracting chain needs to use this time to analyse the effects on their own businesses and it is vital that all get up to speed with IR35 version one (2000).

Keep watching the contractor press for developments (the contractor ‘press’ that doesn’t just stick a press release up!).
Decide what you want to do -- if you could.
Collect and keep all evidence including SDS outcomes, online IR35 status tool outputs, end-client correspondence, contract review results, and working practices changes/opinions.
Find out about your personal situation now, to see what the options and (above all else) the risks are, and if a change in your status is feasible.
Speak to your client and find out what their position may be come April 6th 2023, especially if you are contracting with an organisation that has banned PSCs.
Take advice from only those that, as impartial as possible, understand all the rules (from 2000 onwards), and ideally those with hands-on experience of successfully defending IR35 HMRC investigations.

This could be great news for professional interim and self employed workers, it could be great news for large private companies and the public sector to attract and retain key skills to help them deliver growth and it could be great news for those involved in the supply of these people. For now, keep up to date, get planning and be ready, April will soon be here…

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Rosie and Josie are brilliant, always very helpful and proactive if on a rare occasion a timesheet is not approved. They are also very quick to answer other queries.

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Lauren Davies has been absolutely fantastic - Not one thing she couldn’t resolve when there was an issue. She is a highly dedicated and professional lady. I would gladly rate Lauren’s service as a high 10/10. She is an absolute asset to Morgan Hunt. I look forward to working with Lauren in the future.

Annabel I have spoken to when Lauren hasn't been available, I recall Annabel, who also was brilliant at resolving any queries I had. I think we need a Morgan hunt service based here in Newcastle upon Tyne as there are few recruitment agencies who provide a brilliant service like Morgan Hunt

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Latest jobs

Java/Typescript Full Stack Developer

Government

Up to £475 per day

Scotland, Hybrid working

Contract / Interim

We have a current opportunity for a Java/Typescript Full Stack Developer on a contract basis. The position will be based in Glasgow. For further information about this position please apply.

Job Title - Full stack Developer

Contract - 6 Months (Hybrid 2 OR 3 Days On-site per week)

Pay - £ 470 - 475 per day (Outside IR35)

Location - Edinburgh OR Glasgow

Job Description

Greenfield development of the Property Factor Register.
Deliver technical solutions that ensure the Housing Management Registers:
* Are upgraded to support compliance with accessibility standards
* Improve operational efficiency for administrative users of the services
* Improve the user experience and user interface
* Optimise the citizen interactions with the registers
* Ensure compliance with data protection legislation
* Effective support and maintenance of the system components underpinning

Essential skills & experience

* Java 11

* JavaScript UI frameworks, specifically React

* HTML / CSS and an awareness of accessibility considerations

* REST APIs

* AWS Significant and demonstrable commercial experience in the following areas:

* Delivering high quality software collaboratively in high-performing, cross-functional development teams.

* Designing, gaining consensus, and implementing technical solutions for software development projects

* Developing within Digital First or GDS quality standards

* Designing and implementing solutions using microservice and event-based architectures

* Developing solutions using human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices

* Using testing tools for unit testing, including system test automation frameworks

* Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana

* Working in Agile delivery models

* Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test Driven Development

* Using UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces

* Code quality, monitoring, telemetry and analytics tools

* Defining infrastructure as code.

Desirable skills & experience

AWS Lambda, S3, Cloud Formation, Aurora/Postgres, API Gateway, CDK

* Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress

* Modern DevOps and CI/CD practices including deployment pipelines, Jenkins and Docker

* OpenShift

* Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices

* Data modelling and SQL development

* Spring Web Flow, Spring Boot and Spring MVC

* Spring security and OAuth2 Template engines such as Thymeleaf

* Typescript

Note - Candidate must have worked with Register of Scotland before.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual\'s skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

Digital Senior Project Manager

Government

Up to £29 per hour

London & The South East, Hybrid working

Contract / Interim

We have a current opportunity for a Digital Senior Project Manager on a contract basis. The position will be based in East Sussex,. For further information about this position please apply.

Job Title - Digital Senior Project Manager

Contract - 3 Months (Hybrid 2 or 3 days on-site per week)

Pay - £ 25 - 29 per hour (Inside IR35)

Location - Hastings & Eastbourne

Job Description-

To manage the delivery of the complex projects throughout the project life cycle. Projects may have a significant IM and T and/or clinical element.
The post holder will have strategic change programmes and discrete projects to manage and will also be expected to provide professional advice, guidance supervision and support to other projects and programmes of work being undertaken within the team as required.
The post holder is responsible for the design of project plans ensuring their successful implementation within agreed timescales and budgets.
They will provide leadership and focus for their project team and will pro-actively communicate with key stakeholders on the development and delivery of projects, ensuring that they are managed in line with best practice standards and that risks are managed and benefits realised.
Projects will often require liaison with the wider health community.

Design & Delivery
Responsible for the planning delivery and organisation of complex projects making use of appropriate project management methodology.
Responsibility for comprehensive documentation for projects and work streams, ensuring that all stakeholders use an agreed set of processes and systems to monitor performance against actions, milestones and timescale.
To maintain an overview of all work streams performance against plan, identifying risks, issues, dependencies and relationships between work streams; advising on & implementing appropriate mitigating and corrective actions or adjustments to the project plan.
Manage resources, timescales and costs and provide regular reports to the project Board including highlight and exception reports
Maintain project risk logs and develop contingency plans for identified issues. Act as expert resource for queries on project implementation and processes
Liaise with other project managers and team members to maintain awareness of the project and identify conflicting resources and scheduling issues and risks.
Support other team members in gaining knowledge and experience of project processes and tasks.

Research Analysis and Data Management
Management responsibility for accuracy, integrity and confidentiality of project records.
Use advanced IT skills to analyse complex data and information for reporting and to inform project decisions.
Undertake market analysis & bench marking to identify best practice and to support the development of new programmes of work.

Required Skills -

Enterprise Ordercomms Project Experience
At least 1 or 2 years of Experience as a Project Manager with NHS.

Automation Developer

Government

Up to £475 per day

Scotland

Temporary

We have a current opportunity for a Automation Developer on a contract basis. The position will be based in Glasgow. For further information about this position please apply.

Job Title - Automation Developer

Contact - 6 Months (Hybrid - 2 day per week)

Pay - £ 470 - 475 per day (Outside IR35)

Location - Glasgow

Duties Include -

* Develop a product ionised automation service based on the findings from prior Research & Development.
* This service will leverage OCR and NLP analysis of deeds in order to build the rule set to safely deliver automation results.
* Requirement for technical automation services
* Develop system components to support deed OCR, NLP analysis, signature detection and title change prediction on RoS AWS server less platform
* Conduct spikes and research to increase the scope of the automation service.
* Robust data analysis to verify and improve system behaviour

Experience Required -
* Ability to engage with stakeholders, understanding context and requirements,from diverse areas of a business including Product Management, Service Design, and Operations.
* Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and server less architecture.
* Using written, verbal, and visual communication to explain complex topics concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences.
* Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes, including Grafana.
* Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
* Formal XP engineering techniques.
* Defining infrastructure-as-code

Technical Skills -