Children's Social Care Transformation Lead

Randstad

  • Carlisle
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 22 days ago
Children's Social Care Transformation LeadLocation: Carlisle, Hybrid (3 days a week in office, flexible)Are you a strategic leader with a passion for transforming Children and Families services?We are seeking an exceptional individual to lead the development and implementation of our strategy for Children and Families, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, inclusive, and professionally safeguarding services for children and young people in Cumberland.Role Purpose
  • To lead the development and implementation of the strategy for Children and Families services, ensuring high-quality, inclusive services.
  • To ensure professional safeguarding, support, and care for children and young people in Cumberland.
  • To translate the council's corporate strategy into an actionable plan for Children's Services, including residential home openings and reducing children in care services.
  • To lead and continuously improve services, focusing on a system-wide approach and innovative practices.
  • To ensure compliance with legal responsibilities for safeguarding (e.g., Children's Act 1989, 2004).
Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement the overall strategy for Children and Families, including Cared For services, quality assurance, and provider services.
  • Lead the service area to translate strategy into successful delivery, ensuring high-quality services that meet the needs of children, young people, and their families.
  • Identify trends in Children's Services, anticipate future issues, and promote creative and innovative approaches.
  • Foster and maintain constructive relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to achieve shared objectives.
  • Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks, and hold self and others accountable to commitments.
  • Collaborate with various teams, departments, and external partners (e.g., health, education, police) to create a supportive network for children and families.
About You You will have demonstrable experience at a Head of Service (HOS) level, specifically as a Responsible Individual for children's homes and provider services at a strategic level. We are looking for someone with extensive, in-depth experience of reducing cared for children numbers, joint commissioning, and transformation of these services and sufficiency strategies. You will have "lived and breathed" these services at an outstanding/good level, demonstrating a deep understanding and a track record of success.Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.

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