Head of Stable Loving Homes for Children in Care
Rate: Negotiable day rate, Inside IR35 (via umbrella)
Duration: 3 months initially
Working pattern: Hybrid - minimum of 3 days per week in Lincolnshire
About the Role
This is a senior leadership opportunity with responsibility for fostering, adoption, placement commissioning, and a children’s home. The main focus will be delivering the Council’s sufficiency strategy, ensuring there is sufficient, high-quality care provision to meet the needs of children in care and care leavers, within a wider transformation agenda. Working as part of a visible senior leadership team, you will lead service improvement, ensure statutory and regulatory requirements are met, and drive better outcomes for vulnerable children and young people.
Key Responsibilities
Lead the delivery of the children’s care sufficiency strategy, ensuring appropriate placements and accommodation are available to meet local need.
Oversee fostering, adoption, placement commissioning and children’s home provision, ensuring quality, safety and regulatory compliance.
Drive transformation and service improvement, developing efficient and sustainable ways of working.
Provide strategic leadership and assurance in relation to performance, risk, budgets and statutory responsibilities.
Work collaboratively with senior leaders, elected members, partners and other stakeholders to improve outcomes for children and care leavers.
Champion corporate parenting and ensure children and young people’s needs and voices inform service development.
Support commissioning, contract management and regional partnership arrangements.
Key Requirements
Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
Significant senior leadership experience within children’s social care, particularly services for children in care.
Strong knowledge of fostering, adoption, placement sufficiency and relevant statutory and regulatory frameworks.
Experience of commissioning, service development and delivering transformation or improvement programmes.
Proven ability to lead teams, manage budgets and oversee performance...
Head of Stable Loving Homes for Children in Care in Lincoln employer: Venn Group Careers
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