Sanctuary Executive is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Strategic Manager to fill a full-time role within a Children's Services based in North East England.
The pay rate for this locum Strategic Manager job is £450 per day (Assignment rate) and is an initial 3-6 month contract.
Duties:
- Providing strategic leadership for the delivery of high-quality social work practice within assessment and safeguarding services.
- Contribute to the wider service area management team and will lead by example in terms of embedding the vision, values and behaviours of the council.
- Assume a corporate remit as appropriate and engage with other service areas to achieve better outcomes for the council.
- Set the priorities, policy and direction of the teams under their remit.
- Contribute to a culture of learning and improvement which puts children and families at the centre aligned to Corporate and Service priorities
Requirements:
- Experience of implementing and managing change and business transformation, proactively pursuing continuous improvement
- Experience of successful strategic management and the formulation and delivery of strategic objectives, plans and policies
- Proven ability to manage a significant budget and meet financial efficiencies
- Working with Members and Senior Officers, advising on specialist areas of responsibility
- Strategic level planning and people management, including motivation, engagement, empowerment, performance management and development
- Experience of managing complex projects and matrix management
- Experience of implementing and delivering partnership working with both internal and external partners.
- Substantial extensive experience of the practice and management of children and family social work
- Experience of people and teams
- Senior Management experiences in statutory Children's Social Care
- Knowledge of Ofsted Frameworks and experience of work within regulated service provision
- Experience of managing complex change within a children's services environment
- Leadership in a complex organisational environment
- Substantial experience of performance monitoring, reviewing and improvement planning.
- Final professional qualification in Social Work
- SWE registration
- Degree in related professional area
- MBA or management qualification
Contact:
This Strategic Manager job is advertised by Billy Holland; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
