Job Details:
Salary range: GBP 69,537 : GBP 92,772 per annum
Work location: 145 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 9XY
Hours per week: 36
Contract type: Permanent
Vetting requirements: Enhanced DBS Check
Closing date: 11 June 2025
Interview date: Week commencing 23June 2025
About the role
In H and F, we are on a successful journey of improvement with an Outstanding Youth Justice Services, and Children's Social Care Services whose Ofsted report praised our 'highly effective and committed leaders that have continued to make improvements. We are in a positive place with a strong and skilled Children and Young People's management team, outstanding practitioners and a culture of care, openness and aspiration.
We are seeking to appoint a passionate, experienced, and committed permanent Head of Performance and Improvement with a strong focus on outcomes for children and young people, high practice standards and excellent service delivery
As Head of Performance and Improvement, you will ensure outstanding services are provided both to the department and to our partners that help us improve performance and secure quality and value for money in service delivery. Working as a key member of the Children's Services senior team, you will be instrumental in the design and delivery of new policy and strategy that achieves the ambition that H and F is an outstanding borough for children to go to school and grow up.
You will provide professional leadership to staff, setting and embedding consistently high standards of practice through the Principal Social Work Role. You will be the first point of contact for children's services policy, strategic planning, and performance management, providing advice to the Director, Assistant Directors and Heads of Service.
You will:
Lead on the development and delivery of a robust Children's Services performance management framework
Develop and champion our approach to continuous improvement
Lead on the development and maintenance of departmental strategies, policies, and procedures
Ensure that children and families' voices are heard across all our policies, strategies, and emerging initiatives.
Work with the Director, Operational and Assistant Directors lead on service planning, needs analyses and innovative practice.
Ensure the most appropriate configuration of data and performance functions across the department.
You will bring in depth knowledge of the legislative and policy context for children's services and a track record in leading performance, policy and strategy teams, working closely with senior managers, stakeholders, partners, and Elected Members. You will possess excellent analytical skills as well as the ability to lead successful projects and change programmes.
Your track record will include demonstrable improvement in outcomes based on delivering effective quality assurance and performance management. You will be able to evidence leadership, negotiation, and relationship management skills appropriate to delivering high profile, complex services that have a profound impact on the effectiveness, availability and value for money of services to the department and to children and their families.
Please refer to the
Role Profile for more information
Role Specific Qualifications:
Professional Social Work qualification CQSW, DipSW, CCETSW and registered with Social Work England.
Our People Values:
We are caring
We care about our borough anddoing things well. We focus on standards and continuousimprovement; learning fromour mistakes and celebratingsuccess.
We are collaborators
We work together for a bettersociety. We work with ourresidents, businesses, schools,third sector and others forbetter outcomes for everyone.
We are driven
We will only settle for the verybest. We seek to continuallyimprove and put our residents,customers and businesses atthe heart of everything we do.
Our commitment to you:
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