About Southwark:
Southwark is a large, ambitious and progressive council with a ‘can do’ attitude and enviable reputation. As a council, we are successful, passionate and forward-thinking. We are committed to our ‘Fairer Futures for All’ promise which ensures that our residents and businesses are central to everything we do. The continuous improvement of our Children and Families services is at the centre of delivering that vision for all our communities.
The role:
We are seeking a service development professional to support the identification and delivery of our strategic priorities for children's social care and wider supporting services. You will be be delivering the end-to-end improvement cycle across a range of significant and complex projects that will modernise and improve services for the benefits of vulnerable children and their families.
About you:
To succeed in this role you will need to be highly proficient in business analysis, change and programme management, as well as policy and strategy development. Robust written, numerical, analytical and problem solving skills will underpin your approach to proposing and delivering continuous improvement. You will be an independent thinker and self-starter who can use your initiative to understand, visualise and deliver opportunities for improvement across the system.
Additional Information:
Please note an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required for this role.
Benefits and more information:
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. You will benefit from 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 36 days with continuous service, a generous local government salary related pension, cycle to work and cycle loan scheme, season-ticket loan, confidential wellbeing and counselling support. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable:
Closing date: Sunday 22nd May 2022 at 23:59
Interview date: TBC
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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