Head of Service (Interim) Children’s Services & Education MG4

Location

Bromley, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Category : Interims
Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £29.02

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

1. To develop and implement a robust strategic and business planning framework for Children and Education or Adults and Housing services, ensuring a ‘golden thread’ is embedded across all levels of planning and the appropriate engagement of Elected Members, senior managers, partner agencies, staff and service users.
2. To ensure that strategic and business planning is intelligence led and based on clear understanding of need and performance.
3. To understand and keep abreast of national and local legislative and public policy developments and undertake broader horizon scanning in respect of either Children and Education or Adults and Housing services and ensure implications are appropriately communicated to senior managers and elected members and fed into strategic and business planning processes.
4. To provide strategic level advice, verbally and in writing, on policy and performance issues to senior managers and portfolio holders.
5. To effectively provide support and influence of policy direction through Member decision making processes.
6. To lead working relationships and liaison with the council’s corporate centre in respect of the input of ECHS department services into corporate planning and performance management processes.
7. To develop and implement a comprehensive performance management framework for Children and Education or Adults and Housing services.
8. To develop and implement the reporting of high quality performance information and intelligence relevant to the needs of governance bodies; senior and operational managers and staff.
9. To ensure appropriate change control in respect of specification and/or configuration of IT information systems in response to legislative changes or changes in business processes.
10. To quality assure and ensure all statutory returns to central government departments and other agencies meet requirements and are timely.
11. To lead on information governance in respect of either Children and Education or Adults and Housing services, ensuring compliance with all statutory and regulatory requirements.
12. To lead on the development of, and compliance with, inter-agency data sharing protocols in respect of either Children and Education or Adults and Housing services.
13. To lead on the development and use of multi-agency intelligence ‘hubs’ in respect of either Children and Education or Adults and Housing services in the borough which inform and support JSNA, other needs analysis and planning purposes.
14. To lead on innovation in the use of data and intelligence, including in the use of IT data reporting tools for planning and performance management purposes across council and multi-agency services.
15. To lead and ensure the successful implementation of the Service Level Agreements with schools in respect of educational data and training and to lead on further income generation initiatives (Children and Education postholder).
16. To lead for the service on new and existing programmes of work to support the delivery of integrated Adults and Health services (Adults and Housing postholder).
17. To lead and co-ordinate risk management procedures in respect of the ECHS department services, reporting on risks to senior managers and co-ordinating risk management planning and implementation.
18. To lead on the deployment of strategic services capacity in the development and implementation of specific service improvement strategies across either Children and Education or Adults and Housing services.
19. To lead and act as project manager on specific improvement projects as identified and commissioned by the departmental leadership team.
20. To lead the input of strategic services in the preparation for and process of external inspection, regulation and peer review, including self-assessment, the provision of required data, information and evidence and fieldwork planning.
21. To lead on the engagement of partner agencies in governance bodies, strategic and service planning and in performance management of either Children and Education or Adults and Housing services.
22. To lead on the co-ordination and servicing of Bromley’s multi-agency Children’s Executive Board and the borough’s Children and Young People Plan (Children and Education postholder).
23. To lead on the development of partnership governance structures in respect of adults social care and health services in conjunction with the Director of Adult Social Care.
24. To lead, manage and deploy Strategy Officers; Performance Team Manager and Performance Analyst to ensure this capacity is maximised and adds value to the delivery of services.
25. To provide effective supervision to these staff, undertake appraisals in line with council policy and ensure the learning and development needs of all staff in the service area are identified and met.
26. To manage appropriately all budgets in this service area and comply with the council’s budget setting and budget monitoring procedures.
27. To liaise with corporate Audit, sign off audit terms of reference and lead on post audit compliance in respect of services within this portfolio.
28. To work closely with the equivalent Head of Service for Strategy and Performance in respect of the overall use of capacity and resilience across these service areas, deploying staff and deputising for the equivalent Head of Service as required.
29. To deputise for the Assistant Director as required.
30. To undertake any other duties commensurate with the level of post as required to ensure the efficient and effective running of the department/section.

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