Assistant Director, Family Help & Safeguarding
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- Employer:
- Staffordshire County Council
- Location:
- Staffordshire
- Salary:
- £95,083 - £99,735 plus car allowance £4,395 and a market supplement up to £10,000 (subject to agreement). Potential maximum salary value of £114,130
- Closing Date:
- 21st March at 9am
- Job Ref:
- GSe120591
Description
Staffordshire is a great county to live, work and invest and is a place where most people enjoy a good quality of life. It is a county with a proud heritage and bright hopes for the future – well positioned at the heart of the thriving West Midlands with a growing and prosperous economy, where children, young people and families can flourish.
Under the leadership of our new Director of Children and Families, we are implementing a new structure designed to create a culture of practice excellence, delivering the best possible outcomes for our children and young people. Following our recent Ofsted judgment, our political and corporate leaders are committed to a sustainable journey of improvement, and the recruitment to these new posts will be vital to our success on that journey, and how quickly we get there.
We are looking to foster a culture of visible leadership, where all Children’s services staff and the wider system are empowered and inspired to collaborate to deliver the best outcomes for our children and young people.
We want leaders who are excited by the prospect of delivering meaningful change locally in response to broader changes that are taking place at a national level. You will have the opportunity to innovate and to remodel services to ensure they are fit for the future. If you know what good Children’s Services look like, and have the experience of helping to get there, we want to hear from you.
We want children and young people to live in homes and environments where they are safe and close to loved ones. You will share our values, central to which is the belief that intervention should always be a last resort, and that when it occurs should be in partnership with families. You will role-model visible and compassionate leadership, collaborating with our communities and partners to deliver the best outcomes for the children and young people of Staffordshire. You will be able to evidence significant experience of strong decision making linked to clear thresholds, supporting a multi-agency approach to anti-oppressive practice with families.
For further information please see or contact our executive search partners GatenbySanderson: Alex Hayes (0113 2056109) or Seb Lowe (07464 543442).
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