Strategic Director Social Care and Education Leicester, England
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Strategic Director Social Care and Education
Leicester’s a vibrant, exciting and diverse city with a lot of complex needs, offering a variety of interesting challenges. That’s why we’re proud of the different approaches we take to support people across the city.
Uniquely covering Child and Adult Social Care services as well as Education. Your focus will be to develop and deliver a strategic vision. You’ll provide expert advice on all relevant policy areas and best practice to ensure we continue to improve our services and how we deliver them.
Join us and you’ll find a supportive team and a culture that focuses on the individual by doing the right thing to produce the best outcomes for them. And you’ll enjoy working in an environment that offers plenty of opportunities to develop your expertise, trusts your professional judgement and encourages you to build a rewarding career. As a leader at the council, you’ll help us to navigate a variety of complex challenges to meet the needs of the people of Leicester. That means using your leadership skills to balance public need and political expectations. Delivering real value for the city.
You’ll have a flexible approach to working location to include office, site based such as our children centres and home based, fitting the needs of the service. Typically, Monday to Friday office hours with flexibility as require.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll work in collaboration key partners including education settings, police, as well as colleagues regionally to ensure that everyone under your remit has the support and opportunities they need to learn, thrive, and achieve.
You’ll ensure that our statutory duties are met through the delivery of high-quality support. Creating a culture of respect, collaboration and inclusion so that people who work with us and the people we support can thrive. Leading by example, demonstrating and championing the role that the council should play in building good lives, within the organisation and with system partners.
Creating a reflective environment that enables staff to learn, develop and progress and for the voice of people who draw on support to be genuinely influential in-service delivery and improvement. In practical terms this will involve, managing a team of directors, creating robust procedures, engaging with colleagues to create a strategic plan and attending various complex meetings.
All to achieve and ensure services are safe, high quality and have positive impact on people’s lives.
What you’ll need
With a strong strategic vision, you’ll be able to provide direction and guidance regarding the allocation of resources, risk management, partnership working, change management and participation/engagement of those using services.
Drawing upon your experience as a leader within Children's and/or Adult’s Services to drive service performance. With key monitoring, evaluation, and budgetary control.
You will also be supported to complete an Enhanced DBS.
A diverse and inclusive employer
We serve a vibrant, multicultural city and we’re committed to representing the full range of Leicester’s diversity across the council. Why? Because we want to create an environment where everyone feels welcome and confident in being themselves. And by embracing different viewpoints and opinions, we can generate the innovative new ideas and opportunities that will drive our city forward.
That’s why diversity, equality and inclusion are part of everything we do. It’s why we listen to and engage with all our employee groups and involve them in decision-making. It’s why we encourage reverse mentoring, when senior managers are mentored by juniors from different backgrounds. And it’s why we work with external partners to understand people’s needs. Because we’re working hard to create a council for everyone.
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