Assistant Director for Send Transformation - Woking, United Kingdom - Surrey County Council

Surrey County Council

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Woking, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Job Introduction

The salary scale for this position is £81,877 - £92,278 per annum based on a 36-hour working week.

Surrey County Council and the "SEND" Local Area Partnership has a large-scale strategy and transformation programme seeking to improve experiences and outcomes for children and young people and enable long term financial sustainability of the High Needs Block.

This is a multi-year partnership programme and includes focus on inclusion in education and community, EHCP timeliness, Capital investment to improve sufficiency of specialist places and partnership accountability.

Our aim

Our SEND Strategy and Transformation programme is integral to Surrey achieving a desired step change in both culture and approach to SEND across our teams, partners and services.

By improving and joining up the availability, accessibility and inclusion of support across the whole system we can ensure that our programme moves forward positively, providing an offer that enables our children, young people and families to achieve consistently better outcomes and is financially sustainable.

We have co-produced the Inclusion and Additional Needs Partnership Strategy to guide the improvement work across the partnership, and have a 'Safety Valve' agreement with the Department for Education underpinning our progress towards financial sustainability of the High Needs Block.

Your role

Reporting to Director for Education and Lifelong Learning, Liz Mills, you will join a capable and motivated leadership team who are committed to working in partnership with transformation.

You will also lead a programme team who are embedded in the services and across the partnership supporting the delivery of impactful change.

This is a key leadership role with a big focus on stakeholder management to ensure that our transformation programme progresses positively.

An ability to quickly develop strong working relationships with internal and external senior stakeholders is critical, particularly with those beyond our direct organisational boundaries including education, health and care leaders, where you'll advise and influence them on the details and development of the programme.

You will ensure there is accountability for plans across the programme and that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined with all key stakeholders.

You will be adept at horizon scanning to pre-empt and mitigate risks associated with the programme, escalating these as required and feeding them into forward planning.

You will have a genuine interest and understanding of the SEND agenda and the education/health/social care sectors, recognising that each has its part to play in the overall transformation of the services we deliver.

You will have the natural ability to present yourself positively with both confidence and conviction, inspiring respect and trust amongst colleagues, partners and peers, working as part of the directorate team but with a real outward focus on successful collaborative working.

You will be passionate about design-led change that puts citizens at the centre. You will have strong programme management, financial management, performance management and report writing skills.

If you can demonstrate a proven track record of successful co-delivery of complex projects of similar scale across partnership structures, dynamic leadership skills, clear strategic thinking and strong influencing and negotiating skills, we would love to hear from you.

Your contribution to our transformation journey will build upon on the good progress we've already made in helping to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.

In the words of our Executive Director of Children's Services, Rachael Wardell, the latest addition to our permanent leadership team here in Surrey
:"We're constantly pushing ourselves to do better for children, young people and their families." This new role is critical to driving those improvements.

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Additional Information
The job advert closes at 23:59 on 18/08/2023 with interviews to follow.

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Benefits
From flexible working to job sharing (where possible) we are committed to providing a healthy work life balance. A laptop and mobile will be supplied if applicable to your role.

You will benefit from 26 days annual leave, rising to 28 days after 2 years' service, a generous local government salary related pension, as well as the option to join our car lease scheme.

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