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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailMy Client believes in putting people at the forefront of our mission. Our commitment is to provide unparalleled service, pushing the boundaries of customer service. We aim to create an environment that fosters growth, innovation, and potential. As leaders, we:
Corporate Duties and Accountabilities:
Main Purpose:
Support the Executive Director for Children s Services in providing strategic leadership for children and young people's services. As a member of the Children s Services Directorate Management Team, you'll exemplify our values, driving strategic use of data and quality assurance to improve outcomes. You'll be instrumental in transforming our approach, ensuring we're always at the forefront of service delivery.
1. Corporate duties and accountabilities:
The post holder will comply with and promote the Council s Health, Wellbeing and Safety at Work policies and ensure these are implemented effectively within his/her areas of responsibility.
A priority for the Council is the protection of vulnerable people, ensuring they are able to live as independently as possible. The post-holder will promote and engage with Council s responsibility to safeguard the welfare of children, young people and adults, and protect their right to be safe from harm.
Through personal commitment and clear action, the post-holder will promote the Council s employment policies, with particular reference to diversity, equality of access and treatment in employment, service delivery and community involvement. To support/develop a working culture within these services that reflects the corporate vision.
Ensure that the services provided aligned to the Council strategy, vision, aims, objectives, priorities and continuous improvement programme and play their part in achieving these. This includes compliance with Standing Orders, Financial Regulations, Code of Conduct and the Councils Policies and Procedures.
2. Main purpose of the job role:
To support the Executive Director for Children s Services (Statutory Director of Children s Services) in providing strategic leadership to the delivery and development of services to children and young people in Walsall that achieve positive outcomes, working closely with commissioners and key stakeholders, which include children and young people.
As a member of Children s Services Directorate Management Team, you will be expected to lead by example, role modelling our values and working collaboratively and cohesively to deliver effective services. Leading with value-based behaviours, you will create a workforce who are able to deliver on the WR4C vision.
Reporting to the Director of Early Help and Partnerships you will have the day to day responsibility for driving and facilitating an increased focus on the strategic use of data and quality assurance frameworks to strengthen service delivery to improve outcomes for children and their families.
Acting as the lead service business partner for the Council s BI Hub, you will have key responsibility for ensuring that accurate and timely performance information, data, quality assurance and analysis is turned into purposeful business intelligence, to support the senior leadership team and operational managers drive service improvement that has a positive impact on outcomes for children and young people.
A key success measure in this role will be to provide service leadership and translate this into clear goals and objectives to deliver outcomes that make a positive difference to people s lives, You will be pivotal in providing visible and accessible leadership across Children s Services, collaborating with colleagues in the corporate centre and wider strategic partnership, on strategic planning and service improvement. You will be a leader who can motivate and inspire others and champion best practice, being aspirational as you lead change; transforming the way we work.
You will have key responsibility for ensuring that accurate and timely performance information, data, and analysis is turned into purposeful business intelligence, to support the senior leadership team and operational managers drive service improvement that have a positive impact on outcomes for children and young people.
Your role will have a significant influence on the achievement of the service transformation plan in achieving service improvements alongside the identified cost benefits
Lead on the preparation for inspection, including development of the annual self-evaluations and ensuring that learning from inspections / peer reviews is integrated into continuous improvement plans for the Directorate. This includes an active role in sector led improvement activity across the region
Work with corporate colleagues, in particular the Business Insights Hub, in developing and maintaining a corporate, Walsall-wide and regional business intelligence infrastructure that meets the needs of Children s Services.
Lead on large-scale Directorate transformation programmes, including but not exclusively Supporting Families, HAF, Family Hubs, Family Safeguarding Model and SEND Improvement. Provide the necessary support to maximise claim and monitoring arrangements, as well as recognise best practice that can be shared across the service and partnership.
Lead the cultural, workforce and other changes to secure the transformation of children s services by creating the conditions for others to perform and innovate. Robustly challenge ineffective working practices and poor performance.
To take a lead role in implementing the services Big Conversation Participation Strategy, keeping children and young people, families and parents at the centre of everything that you do and ensure that children and young people are involved in the development and delivery of local services.
To be the Children s Service s lead for system development working with ICT in ensuring that systems support the effective delivery of Children s Services.
To provide expert advice, guidance and leadership for corporate processes including Freedom of Information requests, Member Enquiries, customer complaints, data protection, liaising with corporate teams to ensure that the department is represented at corporate meetings and delivers its responsibilities.
To deputise for Director s across Children s Services as required.
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Join us in making a difference in the lives of the children and young people of our community.
Duration of assignment: 12 weeks
Working hours: 37 hours per week
Full Time