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Project Manager - Children & Young People's Services

£46,857 - £49,890 per annum
2 x Fixed Term until March 2025
1 x Fixed term for 1 year

About Us

You will work in the Change and Improvement team and drive through positive change across our services, positively impacting our children, families, young people and communities.

We are looking for three project managers to lead on:

• Social Care Transformation
• Family Hubs Transformation x 2

Newham has been identified as one of the 75 Local Authorities nationally who will be designated as a ‘Family Hub Development Borough’ by the Department for Education, which funds this project. This is an exciting opportunity to transform our services and develop an integrated and co-located service offer for our families. A Family Hub is not a prescribed range of services – it is an approach that offers families more coherent and effective services in a localised way. It may include, for example, health services (antenatal, maternity, health visitor, school nurses); early years and childcare and education, youth services, parenting support, safety and relationship support. Additionally, the borough is moving towards a Family Help model as we transform our operating models in response to the social care reforms Stable Homes, Built on Love.

Our improvement journey is well underway and we are looking for an exceptional colleague to make a real difference to the lives of our children and young people. We value career development, learning, and training and our positive organisational change will offer fantastic opportunities for social workers who share our ambition.

This role will help sharpen our focus, harness our strengths, and identify opportunities to ensure our children and young people can thrive. The role will deliver additional problem-solving capacity and the ability to think differently.

Working collaboratively across the directorate and wider Council, the core priorities of the role will be to drive innovative service improvements aligned to corporate priorities; ensure the broad range of strategies and services delivered by Children and Young People Services (CYPS) collectively work towards enhancing the lives of everyone working and living in our borough. You will identify opportunities to increase efficiency, with accountability for savings delivery and service delivery whilst supporting the continuous improvement agenda.

About the Role

We are currently looking for three experienced Project Managers who will lead complex transformational projects across Children and Young People’s Services:

Social Care Transformation

You will be working on projects within our Children in our Care and Social Care interventions portfolio such as Fostering transformation, sufficiency planning, brokerage development and in-house accommodation provisions to ensure positive outcomes for children in Newham and sustained financial benefits.

Family Hubs Transformation

You will either be leading:

• Our service development and delivery plans for the funded strands within the DfE Family hubs & Start for Life programme such as Parenting, Perinatal Mental Health, Infant Feeding and Early Language & Home Learning Environment
• The development of cross-cutting family hubs infrastructure such as the opening of new pilot sites, leading our digital offer and improving practice in Early Help embedded within communities.

You will lead a small team of specialist resources to lead the delivery of programmes and initiatives, embedding a robust approach to continuous service improvement and driving change throughout the service.

For a full list of duties and responsibilities please refer to the job description.

About You

You should be committed to being part of a strong and important team, with the ability to be proactive and hit the ground running – enabling the Improvement and Change team to provide staff and service users with a high quality service.

You will have worked in project roles in a large organisation with a track record of delivering successful change and improvement. Local authority experience is not needed, but an understanding and commitment to improving services for children is essential.

Our Offer

We will offer you:

• A competitive salary of £46,857 to £49,890pa.

• An opportunity to undertake a career defining transformation role at a high profile London Borough.

• Flexible working arrangements and the opportunity to work from home, including a hybrid model approach.

• Smarter Working with new modern technology.

• Excellent transport links to the rest of the capital, including nearby Elizabeth Line station at Custom House.

• Permanent and stable senior leadership with a consistent vision.

• Well-being service, leisure and discount benefits (Council scheme).

• Travel season ticket loan, cycle scheme, electric vehicle scheme, Local Authority pension.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Ryan Brock – Head of Strategy & Programmes on [email protected]

Please submit a CV and provide a supporting statement (up to 2 sides of A4) in the additional information section after clicking apply. The supporting statement should demonstrate how you meet the relevant requirements listed in the person specification.

Shortlisting decisions will be based on candidates' relevant experience and on candidates' suitability for the role in line with the person specification, as described in their supporting statement.

https://www.newham.gov.uk/downloads/file/6122/project-manager-jan-2021-jd

Closing date: 26th June 2023

IMPORTANT: If you are an LBN member of staff and applying for this role as a secondment you should note that secondments are subject to the agreement of your current employing service. Please ensure that you inform your line manager of your intention to apply for the post in the first instance.

Additional Information

We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need, that’s all that matters to us.

The London Borough of Newham has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role.

We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn .