Assistant Director Early Help and Family Help
Expired
Tameside
Full Time
Permanent
Expires 08/04/2025
About the Role
Contract Type: Permanent
Base Location: Tameside One, Market Place, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 6BH
Assessment Date: Week commencing 21 st April 2025
The Role
We are looking for a leader for early help and family help who can lead our established early help services, from early years; our family hubs; right through to our targeted youth provision.
Leading the implementation of Families First reforms that will grow to include our multi-agency safeguarding front door.
The successful candidate will be pivotal to our improvement agenda, ensuring that we improve the difference we make to children by getting the right support to families at the right time, delivered by a skilled and tenacious workforce.
They will have the energy, confidence and passion to drive high standards and an ability to bring partners and colleagues with us.
Working with the Director of Children’s Services, and the wider senior leadership team, you will contribute to a sustainable and enduring turnaround of services, building a service offer for the future for all children and families in Tameside.
About You
We are looking for a strong, credible leader who has passion and determination to empower, enable, motivate and develop the workforce, fostering a positive organisational culture to achieve our ambitious improvement plan to achieve better outcomes for children and families.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
* Openness to possibilities
* Ability to collaborate
* Belief in your team and people
* Personal resilience and tenacity
* Ability to create and sustain commitment
* Results and outcomes focused solutions
* Ability to learn continuously
* Evidence based decision making
Through your leadership, you will develop and support a committed early help and family help workforce and drive forward the improvement plan, setting out a bright future for children and young people.
Now is the time to join Team Tameside and be the difference for children and young people as part of a newly established children’s leadership team.
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About Us
Message from Jill Colbert, Director of Children’s Services
“I joined the council at the beginning of 2025 and was instantly charmed by the warmth, openness, and energy of colleagues.
“I came to Tameside for one reason; because I know we can do fantastic things for our families here.
“We’re a children’s service on a significant improvement journey. We know what needs to be different for our children and families and we’re ambitious to deliver that change.
“We have a growing range of specialist services for children, where you can test and grow your skills and practice. We have a Social Work Academy that is led by people who bring passion to learning and who know that the DCS’ of the future are right in front of them. We are working on our progression pathways so that staying in Tameside is rewarded and recognised. We have investment in innovation and improvement from the council so that we can grow services and support for families that we can sustain, from family hubs through to complex safeguarding.
“I am so certain that we can build a proud, inclusive and safe climate for great practice to flourish in Tameside. I’d love you to join me on the journey here at Team Tameside.”
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. This position is subject to Enhanced with Barred List Disclosure Procedures.
This is a politically restricted post.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, OL6 6BH, United Kingdom
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