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, risk and compliance.
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders and across multi-agency partnerships.
If you have the relevant experience, please apply today!
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