Strategic Lead for Business Support Service - Gateshead, United Kingdom - The Jeya Group Ltd

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We are looking for Strategic Lead for business support service.

What we want you to do:

  • To act as a member of the Senior Management Team and take a lead role in developing and implementing strategies, policies and plans related to the business support function.
  • Provide specialist knowledge, challenge, and support to the senior management team to support and shape business development and improvement.
  • Have direct line management for business support function and associated management responsibilities.
  • To take the lead in ensuring business improvement, transformation, delivery activities/programmes and
strategic quality assurance activity is planned and coordinated effectively to ensure the best outcomes and

inspection readiness.


  • Lead service improvement activity and quality assurance frameworks in relation to the business support
function across the service and implement the framework and systems to manage progress against targets,

where appropriate learning from best practice locally and nationally.


  • Continuously review, maintain, monitor and evaluate systems and processes to ensure they are streamlined
and eliminate duplication and develop systems and business models for ensuring value for money in all

service provision ensuring technology supports and improves service delivery.


  • To monitor and report on allocated budgets to ensure cost effectiveness and efficiency.
improvement projects with demanding priorities and system/service cross functional change.


  • To represent the service on corporate responsibility such as health and safety, business continuity and
emergency planning objectives to ensure they are met on behalf of the service.


  • Act as the service risk management lead and address areas of non-compliance following audits where
relevant to Business Support Service.


  • Horizon scan for new approaches and opportunities, learning from others in the region and beyond, feeding
back on developments, ideas and driving these forwards.


  • Benchmark best practice and create innovative ways to solve business problems, including methods and
alternative delivery models that are untested within the service.


  • Develop and implement systems for measuring and reporting progress to ensure new business ideas and
solutions are realised.


  • Establish monitoring and evaluation systems to measure activities against targets/timescales providing a
wide range of financial and performance data and reports for business monitoring purposes.


  • Suchotherresponsibilitiesallocatedwhichareappropriatetothegradeofthepost.
What you need to be successful... the essentials Qualifications


Knowledge

  • Extensive knowledge of Children's Social Work systems and procedures
  • Transformational Change
  • Quality Assurance systems and functions
  • Financial procedures and or regulations
  • Highly developed analytical skills with an ability to target information for different audiences.
  • Ability to work with competing demands in a fastmoving environment.
  • Ability to deliver effective working relationships across agency boundaries

Experience

  • Leading and motivating teams.
  • Developing and delivering on strategic visions and plans
  • Innovating new service delivery models and implementing change projects
  • Project management, including the introduction of new systems and technology
  • Delivering within tight deadlines and targets
  • Writing and delivering reports to high profile forums
  • Management and monitoring of budgets.
  • Human resource management and effective performance management
  • Implementation and development of manual and computerised systems

Job Type:
Temporary contract


Pay:
£35.53 per hour

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