Remedy Recruitment Group are currently seeking an experienced Interim Service Director, Safeguarding and Family Support to work in Herefordshire Council.

Job Purpose

• Must be a qualified Social Worker Responsibility for Early Help, MASH and Assessment, CP and Court, and Corporate Parenting services As a member of the Directorate Leadership Team, you will be expected to lead by example, role modelling our values and working collaboratively and cohesively to deliver effective services. Leading with value-based behaviours, you will create a workforce who are committed to our organisational values and cultural aspirations.
• The post holder will be fully responsible and accountable for all areas within their remit and empowered to make decisions in relation to the outcomes they are working to achieve. Responsible for leading improved outcomes in Children's Social Care by raising Standards, Quality and Performance with specific responsibility
• Provide effective professional leadership, exercising overall responsibility for the management and performance of relevant Heads of Service, including supervision of professional standards and competence, management of individual performance and development and improvements to service delivery and practice.
• Keep children and young people, families and parents at the center of everything that you do and ensure that children and young people are involved in the development and delivery of local services.
• Lead the cultural, workforce and other changes to secure the transformation of Children's services by creating the conditions for others to perform and innovate. Robustly challenge ineffective working practices and poor performance.
• Develop and embed a performance culture that delivers results in terms of better outcomes for local people through rigorous open challenge, personal accountability, disciplined execution, and continual improvement.
• Ensure that effective risk management arrangements are in place to maximise the ability to identify and take up opportunity, and to minimise the Council's exposure to risk and uncertainty, whilst encouraging creative thinking and innovative practice.
• Maintain robust budgetary monitoring controls ensuring effective budgetary management is exercised by Heads of Service and that all resources are managed efficiently and effectively within finite resources.
• Ensure the existence of a common system of planning, monitoring, evaluation, and review for the service, complementary to the rest of the Council and consistent with statutory requirements.
• Maintain an oversight of and play a key role in shaping the market for high quality children's social care and early help services by building and maintaining effective relationships with key partners, service providers and stakeholders; managing risks to the local market and ensuring contingencies are in place.
• Maximise the availability of external partnership funding and resources to enhance service delivery.
• Cultivate and maintain productive relationships with Public Health, CCGs, NHS, police, and education more generally to identify and capitalise upon opportunities for promoting quality of life, independence and enablement of children and families.

You will need to be:

• Eligible to work in the UK

Why Choose Remedy?

• Competitive pay rates
• Access to exclusive roles that aren't available from other agencies
• 1st tier agency
• Up to £350 for each professional you refer to us who we place*

If you are interested and would like to find out more please apply to this advert with a copy of your updated CV. Alternatively, please send your CV directly