Implementation Partner (LGR)
£51,536 - £54,595 Per annum (Pro rata for part time) Pay award pending
24 Months Fixed Term Contract
Nottingham - 2 to 3 days per week in office (Hybrid)
🌍 Preparing for transformation. Supporting critical services. Making a real difference.
We’re looking for one experienced strategic leader to join us as Implementation Partner (LGR), playing a pivotal role in preparing Adults’ and/ or Children’s Social Care for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR).
This is a high‑profile role, working closely with senior leaders to ensure statutory services are robust, well‑governed and fully prepared for significant organisational change.
About the Role
You will act as the single coordination point for all LGR activity across Adults’ and Children’s Social Care. You’ll provide grip on performance, drive transformation activity and ensure strong governance, communication and readiness across complex, highly regulated services.
This role is central to assuring continuity, quality and improvement while new organisational arrangements are developed.
🔑 Key areas of responsibility include:
- Directorate business strategy and performance management
- Policy development, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Governance, forward planning and senior decision‑making support
- Service planning, risk management and LGR readiness assessment
- Partnership working across health, safeguarding, education and system partners
- Internal and external communications and engagement planning
- Emergency planning, business continuity and assurance
- Leading key programmes and projects aligned to LGR workstreams
You will also line‑manage the Performance and Quality Manager, ensuring strong oversight of quality, performance and improvement activity across statutory services.
About You
We’re looking for someone who can demonstrate:
✅ Senior leadership experience in a complex organisation
✅ Strong understanding of Adults’ and Children’s Social Care or other statutory services
✅ Proven ability to drive transformation, service improvement and change at pace
✅ Strong political awareness and confidence working with senior officers and elected members
✅ Experience shaping and delivering strategic vision, backed by strong analytical skills
✅ A clear commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
✅ Experience of governance, policy development, programme leadership and performance frameworks
✅ The ability to influence, collaborate and work across services to deliver shared outcomes
Why Join Us?
🚀 Play a central role in one of the most significant transformations in local government
👥 Work closely with senior leaders and system partners
🏗 Shape future ways of working across Adults’ and Children’s Social Care
💡 Lead high‑impact work that supports vulnerable people and communities
If you’re a strategic leader who thrives in complexity, understands statutory responsibilities and wants to help shape the future of social care in Nottingham, we’d love to hear from you.
What We Offer
- A role with real influence and visibility across the Council
- Opportunities for learning, development and progression
- Supportive, collaborative colleagues who care about quality and outcomes
- A chance to shape how we listen to and engage with our communities
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Nottingham City Council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we want our workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences and are committed to ensuring everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and actively encourage applications from disabled people. If you wish to apply under the Disability Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please let us know as part of your application. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
We also proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from serving personnel, veterans, reservists and military families. We recognise the skills, experience and values that members of the Armed Forces community bring to civilian roles.
At Nottingham City Council, inclusion is central to how we lead, how we work and how we deliver services for our city.
You can find the job description for this post here.
Job description ‘Business Performance Manager’ included here has been renamed Implementation Partner - LGR to better reflect the job scope.
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Claire Brown - Head of LGR Implementation, by email at claire.brown2@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Closing Date: 8th September 2026
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
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Contact Details:
Nottingham City Council, Leicestershire County Council, East Midlands Group Recruitment Team
