Member Job Opportunity: Barnardo's - Assistant Director Children's Services - Essex

Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 36.25
Salary: £45,252 - £59,896 (Full Time Equivalent)
Closing Date: 27 October 2022
Interview Date: 14 November 2022

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There is an opportunity to join the Barnardo's senior management team working across the South East region of England. If you are an inspirational and aspirational leader in Children's Services with a drive to ensure excellence for children, young people and their families then this opportunity may be for you.

The senior leadership team for the region, including our Assistant Directors Children's Services and School Principals provide oversight, guidance, supportive challenge and leadership presence for our teams and services across the region. The post therefore requires the applicant to be able to travel. Barnardo's does have a work from anywhere policy and the postholder will need to be confident in digital communication and remote working.

Please see the generic Assistant Director Children's Services job description, person profile and additional information.  The successful post holder will be responsible for a varied portfolio of work in Children's Services operations encompassing all areas of Barnardo's Corporate Strategic aims. The building portfolio also includes the senior leadership oversight and development of further provision across the communities we serve in Essex and the wider South East region. This particular Senior Leader's portfolio currently includes oversight of a partnership held with HCRG Care Group to deliver the Essex Child & Family Wellbeing Service.

The successful postholder will work with senior colleagues across the region to ensure we continue to develop services to best meet the needs of children, young people and their families in line with our Barnardo's Corporate Strategic aims to achieve Better Outcomes for more Children.

The ideal candidate will be able to evidence:

• Determination to create immediate and systems wide change for children and young people within the challenging health and social care systems.
• Your ability to maintain a child focussed approach as a senior leader.
• Depth and breadth of management experience across a range of service areas including holistic Family Support, Early Support and Early Help.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation, guidance and quality standards that apply to children's services.
• Strong leadership skills and capabilities to ensure the standards of care, help, protection and support are of the highest quality.
• Commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and anti-racist behaviours.
• Solution Focussed attitude and approach.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including employee engagement, workforce development and change management.
• Good working knowledge and experience of business development and service development within children's services.
• Commitment to co-design, co-production and co-delivery.
• Commitment to work in the best interests of the charity and our objectives.
• Commitment to continuous learning and development as a senior leader.

When completing your application form please refer to your skills, knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Profile as well as those specified above. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the post described.

If you have questions about the role or would welcome a discussion please email  [email protected] in the first instance. 

Emma Bowman is Barnardo's Director Children's Services  - South East and London regions.

Barnardo's offers a hybrid working model covered under our `Work from Anywhere' Framework, therefore vacancies advertised with this as an opportunity are open for applicants to either work from home or any location within the UK, including Barnardo's Hub/Office that is a reasonable distance from your home address. 

Flexibility
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.

About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.

Full details and application documents here