Programme Manager - Children Services

Programme Manager

Our Client is looking for a change maker to deliver one of their flagship changes in Childrens Services. Family Homes for Children pulls together multiple workstreams to help support children and families in the Council that need crisis support and potentially residential care. They are re-designing the way their system supports families through this process. Their priorities and goals for this work are:

1. To keep children safe and in their families
2. To profile children in residential care and match them to foster families
3. To support foster carers with support to enable them to take on children with specialist needs
4. To build their own care homes in the city to keep children near their families and support networks

In the current financial year they aim to save around 8m through changing how they operate to meet these goals.

They need a catalyst to pull the components of this change together and help operate the business to maximise the benefits to children and families in the city, as well as to the Council's budget. The right candidate will fill a role profile that they call a programme manager and is likely to have the skills and experience arising from this type of background, but this role also requires someone who will lead and operate the changes required to their system. Working with Service Directors, Strategic Directors and Councillors, you will have experience of Childrens Services so that professionals respect you and you will have demonstrated how to lead big changes in complex organisations.

This is a really exciting opportunity to join a team committed to change - if you think you can help drive these outcomes with them, we look forward to reviewing you application.