Children's Social Care – Assistant Director Improvement

Job Description

Children's Social Care – Assistant Director Improvement

Initial 6 month interim contract

IR35 TBC - £650 per day – full time

Midlands, Local Authority

A new, fantastic opportunity for an Improvement specialist within children's services in local authority for an initial 6 month interim contract within a Midlands authority.

Though leading on improvement work, the role will also encompass supporting the Director of Children’s Services.

My client will be holding Teams/telephone interviews early January 2025 and looking to review CVs ASAP with a view to starting immediately.

About your duties as Children's Social Care – Assistant Director Improvement:

• The primary purpose of role is to produce results and make a positive impact on the improvement journey.
• This will include preparation of some written documents for the Improvement Board and other time limited pieces of work that are required across the Directorate. 
• Experience of working in Children’s Social Care at a Head of Service/Director level is essential, as is working in an improvement environment. 
• You must be able to manage difficult and challenging/supportive conversations and situations.
• Have experience navigating and monitoring Ofsted visits.
• Able to implement change.
• Project work skills are an advantage.  A key driver for this role is to ensure a relentless focus on the pace and impact of improvement to services for children at a critical point in the teams Children’s Services improvement journey.
• Data and performance would be of a huge benefit, as well as a good working knowledge of Liquid Logic.

Your experience needed as Children's Social Care – Improvement Lead:

• Experience within improvement based role for children’s services
• Ability to work in an agile and flexible manner’
• Understanding of social work, Ofsted inspection readiness and criteria
• Active registration with Social Work England
• Available references for most recent 2 year's roles.

If you’re interested in discussing this opportunity in more detail or know someone who this may be of interest to, please contact me on 0117 3137110 or apply today.

(We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact)