Head of Children's Services - Glasgow, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland

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Glasgow, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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The shift pattern is Monday-Friday.

An excellent recruitment opportunity has arisen for the position of Head of Children's Services within Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP).

The Head of Children's Services provides strategic direction, leadership and operational management of Children and Family services within one of the three localities - North East, North West and South.

Reporting to the Assistant Chief Officer, you will assume the leadership and operational management responsibility on key strategic or thematic areas of work; such as residential, fostering and intensive and specialist children services.

In addition, you will be required to represent Glasgow City HSCP at a national level on such issues as required.

You will require to work collaboratively with the Senior Management Team (SMT), Core Leadership, Children's Planning and Integrated arrangements and within the Locality Executive Management Team to achieve the objectives of the strategic plan within the locality and across the HSCP.

A key element of the role will require you to ensure the development of integrated approaches to the planning and delivery of health and social care services that effectively meet the demands for care of Children.

As a member of the Senior Management Team, you will work collaboratively and provide effective leadership for both NHS and local authority services ensuring the delivery of objectives through high impact transformational leadership and the implementation of a robust performance management framework.

You will hold a relevant degree in a Health and Social Care field along with a relevant management qualification.

In addition, you must have substantial experience of people, financial and resource management whilst being able to demonstrate commitment to CPD.