£600 Per Day
Full Time
Temporary
North London, Greater London
Public Sector And Council
Posted 5 days ago
Expires In 24 Days
Job Description
- The purpose of this job is to support the Corporate Director, Directors, elected members, and other senior managers, by taking a leading role in responding to key strategic challenges, influence and embed organisational strategies, as well as change and improvement projects in the directorate and/or organisation.
- The Head of Programmes, Strategy and Improvement will be at the forefront of the department’s improvement journey, embedding change and improvements within the context of the new CQC Local Authority inspection framework. Ensuring that Adult Social Care have the effective policies, strategies and systems to deliver our Adult Social Care Vision and the council’s 2030 plan.
Responsibilities
- Working with the corporate and political leadership to identify and ensure delivery of their vision, priorities, and value to residents.
- Leading on developing partnership networks and relationships to improve the well-being outcomes for residents and strengthen collaborative working and integration.
- Facilitating joint working across the sub-region and region in relation to projects and services that affect our residents and people who use our services.
- Creating and delivering strategies for our communities, enhancing resident voice and influence producing an annual directorate service plan which reflects an effective use of resources and is underpinned by service improvement.
- Lead an effective Programme Management function within the Adult Social Care Directorate, providing strong and motivational leadership to the ASC Improvement Team.
- Support the development and delivery of the Adult Social Care improvement priority projects, including playing a lead role in inspection preparation and response.
- Oversee the departments communication and co production approach ensuring these align to delivery of our vision and link into the corporate strategy and priorities.
Requirements
- Education to degree level or equivalent experience in design, improvement, change and programme management.
- Successful and substantial senior management experience of developing strategy and change across complex public sector areas.
- Extensive experience of running successful programmes and projects which have driven or led to service improvements and/or change, managing risk and assurance programmes and delivering effective governance.
- Evidence of a track record of successfully operating as a leader in a large, complex and comparable setting and demonstrating political awareness with the ability to create effective working relationships with elected members to provide objective, complex and technical advice and support.
- Strong leadership and management skills and the ability to lead, motivate and enthuse teams and employees whilst creating a culture in support of organisational vision, values and behaviours.
- Strategic collaborative leadership which inspires, motivates and connects stakeholders to a common purpose to collectively bring about lasting system-wide change and improvement.
- Sophisticated understanding of working within a complex multi layer model of decision-making and influence (ideally within a political environment).
- Ability to influence, support and work together with senior colleagues across the directorate, council, and wider partnership.
- Understanding and experience of strategy and policy development including working with key stakeholders including members and residents.
- Financial acumen and reasoning, used to working with significant budgets.
Contract
- Initial 3 to 6 month ongoing contract with the opportunity to extend
- PAYE via Umbrella
- Monday to Friday 9:30am to 5:30pm
If you are interested in this position AND meet the requirements, APPLY NOW!
Peter Prince
Peter.Prince@voxconsultants.com
02081384125
Division V85
Vox Network Consultants London
34 Lime Street
Greater London
EC3M 7AT
0208 1384125
Recommended Jobs
Performance and Improvement Lead
Red Personnel
£450 Per Day
Greater London, Greater London
Temporary
Posted 24 days ago
Ref 176Performance
Clerk of Works
Vox Network Consultants
£36 - £40 Per Hour
North London, Greater London
Temporary
Posted 1 day ago
Ref V85102689
£31,650 - £49,084 Per Annum
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Permanent
Posted 18 days ago
Ref V-40447