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.
The Head of Service role is the operational lead for Cambridgeshire County Council’s Corporate Parenting Service including Looked After Children, and Young People Leaving Care, and will focus on delivering improved outcomes as well as value for money.
We offer flexible work base location options across Cambridgeshire.
What will you be doing?
Joining us now you will become part of a fresh and energetic team with an ambitious commitment to the children and families we support. We know we need to improve and are confident we can deliver the changes but we can’t do it without you.
By joining us you will be supported personally and professionally to deliver in this key role. Enabling you to provide leadership to children’s social care delivery teams ensuring a high standard of practice, taking key operational decisions to improve the outcomes for the children and families of Cambridgeshire.
You will hold statutory duties and work across the system with partners to deliver the best outcome possible for Cambridgeshire’s children and young people.
About you
You will be a qualified social worker with current Social Work England registration, and a post-graduate management qualification.
You will have comprehensive knowledge and experience of operational safeguarding children services and corporate. You must be confident to lead with compassion but be able to deliver creative and innovative solutions.
You must have a solid understanding of the issues and challenges faced by local government and the skills to establish and sustain positive relationships across the system building trust and confidence.
For an informal discussion please contact Assistant Director, samantha.howlett@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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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