Performance Manager Children’s Social Care & Education

Location

Bromley, Greater London | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Title : Performance Manager Children’s Social Care & Education
Job Category : Social Care & Health Non-Qualified
Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council
Hours Per Week : 37.50
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 08:30
End Time : 17:00
Salary: £21.06
Performance Manager Children’s Social Care & Education
MAIN PURPOSE:

1. To develop and deliver a comprehensive business intelligence function to inform strategic and operational planning and key decision making.
2. To ensure strategic performance management information relating to key statutory services including Adult and Children’s Social Care, Housing and Education management oversight is comprehensive and robust leading to continuous improvement
3. To lead on the provision of high quality performance information to, front line managers through to governance bodies to support the embedding of a performance culture and the continuous improvement of services.
4. To lead on collaborative work with partner agencies to maximise the intelligence available for planning and performance management purposes. Including developing multi-agency data sharing hubs and protocols
5. To lead on the delivery, and ensure the quality, of all relevant statutory returns to government and the provision of data and information required by external regulators.

SKILLS & ABILITIES

1. Skills in developing and operating within performance management frameworks.
2. Highly developed ICT skills in the manipulation, analysis and reporting of data
3. Ability to specify ICT systems to deliver appropriate data for performance management and statutory return purposes.
4. Proven written and oral communication skills.
5. Good interpersonal skills with established negotiation and influencing skills.
6. Proven problem solving skills with the capacity to devise and implement innovative solutions.
7. Well developed analytical skills.
8. Good management skills including a proven ability to coach and enable staff to improve ICT and reporting skills.
9. Strong commitment to collaborative working and proven ability to work collaboratively across services and agencies.
   Ability to work flexibly and under pressure and possessing proven prioritisation skills.

KNOWLEDGE

1. Detailed knowledge of either Children and Education or Adults and Housing services, their legislative and regulatory frameworks and their operating models.
2. Detailed knowledge of the types of performance information required to support the performance management of services.
3. Detailed knowledge of the statutory returns frameworks in respect of either Children’s Social Care and Education or Adults’ Social Care and Housing services.
   EXPERIENCE
4. Experience of managing a performance function in a local government /similar.
5. Experience of leading the delivery of statutory returns to government.
6. Experience of the design and delivery of training and packages of continuous professional development to professionals.

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