Our Client, Sefton Council, is seeking a Children's Service Manager to join their Team.
Fantastic payrate of £500 Per day.
Are you a Children's Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!
Responsibilities of this role:
- Provide ownership, leadership, and expertise to identify, shape and deliver large and complex transformation and change programmes to successful implementation, underpinning the Medium-Term Financial Plan (MTFP) as well as supporting new 2 ways of working to deliver additional efficiencies, increased productivity and improved service delivery, making informed and consistent business focussed decisions and presenting a compelling rationale for the chosen options.
- Provide vision, direction and leadership for the Children's Services Transformation and Service Development function, managing a team of project managers. Ensure that the service is as effective and efficient as possible by maximising capacity, estimating workloads and timelines, supporting, and monitoring programme resource allocation, and reviewing and revising work schedules, as necessary.
- Work strategically with identified Senior Responsible Officers and operational leads to define programmes and individual projects, capturing benefits to be realised and any constraints within which projects must operate, including time, cost, scope, quality, resources, and risks.
- Design and implement programme governance, ensuring that relevant governance for programmes and projects conception, launch and inflight is embedded across the organisation, and that appropriate levels of delegation and accountability are in place.
- Lead on project planning, development, and monitoring of activity across Children Service's transformation programmes, ensuring co-ordination between projects and alignment with the budget setting processes so that timely outcomes and benefits are realised, and to enable the financial targets associated with individual projects and overall programmes to be met.
Requirements of this role:
- Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
- Must have a Social Work qualification (Diploma in social work, social work degree or equivalent)
- Must have minimum of 2 years experience working as a Qualified social worker in a similar team
Benefits of working through Reed, include:
- Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
- Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
- Free CV building and Interview support.
- Free DBS checks.
- Weekly payroll.
- PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
- CPD contributions.
- Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
- Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.
Does this role interest you? Apply today!