Regional Head of Together4Children

The position is based in Stafford, however, Together4Children operates from a range of office locations across our region and there is potential flexibility in relation to the main office base for the role. We also operate an agile working approach to service delivery. Regional activity and communication is supported through the use digital technologies including Microsoft Teams.

Key accountabilities include:

• System-wide leadership across the Together4Children Regional Permanency Partnership.
• Accountable lead for the Together4Children Regional Adoption Agency (RAA), ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance and representing the Agency locally, regionally and nationally.
• Leading the Regional Senior Leadership Team (SLT) for Together4Children to take accountability for the delivery of outcome focused services for children and their families.
• Leading change and transformation through the development of regional service provisions that enable children to achieve permanency.
• Act as the Principal Advisor to the Together4Children Regional Management Board, providing expert, specialist and timely information, advice and guidance to ensure the Partnership achieves its strategic goals, outcomes and priorities.
• Advocate for children, birth parents, foster carers, adopters, kinship carers and special guardians; and engage with the regional workforce to ensure that a broad range of views, opinions and lived experiences directly inform development and practice across the Together4Children region.

The ideal candidate
• We're looking for a passionate, committed and highly motivated individual to join us in this key leadership role. Reporting to our Regional Management Board represented by Directors/Assistant Directors of Children’s Services you'll be working with a range of national and regional stakeholders. You'll be an insightful thinker with a track record of delivering complex services, driving performance and developing practice.

You'll also be required to:

• Have a recognised Social Work qualification and be registered with Social Work England
• Bring your comprehensive management and leadership experience to the role
• Have expertise across Care Planning, Adoption, Fostering, Kinship Care and Special Guardianship.
• Be forward-thinking and able to deliver against the Partnership’s vision
• Have an understanding of current national policy and developments relevant to Children Social Care and the drivers for change.
• As a strong leader, you will utilise your skills to harness partnership working and navigating the complexities of adoption and other forms of permanence, whilst maintaining an absolute focus on children’s outcomes.

For more information or an informal chat:
Please contact nisha.gupta@staffordshire.gov.uk the Assistant Director of Childrens Social Care at Staffordshire or Jo.Britton@telford.gov.uk Children's Services Executive Director at Telford and Wrekin.