About the role
Can you rise to the challenge? Cambridgeshire County Council is embarking on a new phase of service delivery after a period of joint working with Peterborough City Council and this brings some exciting opportunities to work with us. With a new Executive Director for Children, Education and Families joining us soon, we will focus solely on the children and families of Cambridgeshire, and we have bold ambitions to achieve excellent standards. If you have the passion for putting children at the heart of everything you do and the ambition to help shape our future, we would love to hear from you.
We strive to be recognised as a service in which early help and social care can develop and prosper. We are keen to foster a culture of collaboration, integrity and compassion; promoting development and wellbeing of children, young people and their families; protecting them from neglect and abuse. This newly created role will be integral to realising our vision.
Reporting to the newly appointed Executive Director, this role will be accountable for the provision of children’s social care (CSC) business planning activity, aligned to our strategic priorities, outcome measures, operational practice, and policy development. It will play a key role in contributing to the development of the income generation strategy and will be responsible for developing bids and activity to build the CSC expansion of externally funded projects and practice development.
What will you be doing?
This is a unique opportunity for you to not only shape the future of Children’s services, but also to develop a brand-new role for the organisation. Acting as operational lead you will find creative and sustainable solutions to deliver our vision for Children’s services at Cambridgeshire.
Working closely with Commissioning, Communities, Transformation and corporate teams, you will take the lead on process and pathway development and implement new ways of doing things, across the Children's Directorate.
You will offer strategic support on regional, national inspections and peer reviews, including the delivery of these. You will need the skills to switch easily between operational and strategic activities and be able to work with members and senior managers as well as operational staff, service users and their families.
Work is what we do, not where we work from. At Cambridgeshire County council we are committed to hybrid working and have no set pattern to how we expect people to balance their working time between different locations, including their home. Working together with your colleagues you will determine the best approach to take for you and your teams.
We offer flexible work base location options across Cambridgeshire.
For more information, please view the attached job description or for a chat about this opportunity, please contact Assistant Director, samantha.howlett@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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