Posted 25/10/2024
£56,707 - £57,747 per annum
Job Reference: 16940
A fantastic and exciting opportunity is available within Bridgend Children and Family Services to provide both senior operational management and strategic leadership for a range of Children and Family Services as a senior manager.
We are committed to the delivery of positive outcomes for children and their families by delivering supportive and effective ways of working in partnership.
We are looking to appoint a driven and inspiring individual who, as a team player will be committed to quality, innovation, transformation and partnership working to improve outcomes for care-experienced children, care leavers and children with disabilities.
You will role model adaptive leadership approaches to ensure a clear, inclusive and engaged approach across all of Children and Family Services to strengthen the involvement of service users, carers, local communities and key stakeholders. You will enable and participate in conversations to ensure planning to design and deliver services with and for children and families focus on outcomes.
You will evidence the ability to strengthen partnership working arrangements with multi-agency colleagues and provide collaborative leadership and direction to the development of high-quality support for children and families.
You will ensure the highest standards of strategic operational leadership and management. You will display a highly developed collaborative and compassionate leadership style, being values based in your approach to lead safe and effective care for the children and families in Bridgend with the ability to influence and drive positive outcomes.
If you believe you have the skills, values, knowledge and experience to provide compassionate, collaborative and dynamic leadership to Children and Family Services, then we would welcome your application. Bridgend has recently launched the Signs of safety practice model and as such you will receive full training in how to use this model of working.
The ability to greet customers through the medium of Welsh is a requirement for this post.
Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.
Criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.
The council’s Hybrid Working Policy applies to this post. This provides a framework for establishing how you will undertake working hours between your home and the office.
Contractual Hours: 37 hours per week
Bridgend County Borough Council (Welsh: Cyngor Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr) is the governing body for Bridgend County Borough, one of the Principal Areas of Wales.
Bridgend County Borough and Bridgend County Borough Council came into effect from 1 April 1996, following the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994. Bridgend County Borough Council largely replaced Ogwr Borough Council, though St Brides Major, Ewenny and Wick were transferred from Ogwr to the Vale of Glamorgan.
In November 2014 the council voted to propose a merger with the neighbouring Vale of Glamorgan Council, though this was rejected by the Welsh Government's Public Services Minister, Leighton Andrews, as not meeting the criteria to be able to proceed.
Civic Offices,
Angel St,
Bridgend
CF31 4WB
Bridgend Station 0.8 miles / 20mins walk
Bridgend, Broadlands 0.3 miles / 7mins walk