You will be a key member of the Corporate Leadership Groups, holding cabinet responsibility as a senior leader to implement our Purpose, Strategy and Theory of change. Ensuring a cultural shift and new ways of working to achieve our strategy, through Integration, Connection, Inclusion and Improvement.
As a member of the UK-wide Children’s Services Leadership Team (CSLT), and design and deliver the Children’s Services plan for Barnardo’s, ensuring the wider management teams are supported in achieving Barnardo’s Purpose and Strategy.
As well as leading Children Services in an assigned delivery area (Health Pillar) you will also be required to hold Lead Director responsibility for a population of children.
As part of our Strategy, you will lead the delivery of Excellent and Inclusive Services. Ensuring local and national services meet the needs of a diverse group of Children, Young People and Families.
You will collaborate with other departments to ensure that the voices and stories of our children and young people inform our service quality, system change in Practice and Policy and assist Barnardo’s to change attitudes to childhood, through our policy and influencing work, fundraising and marketing.
The safeguarding of the children and young people who use our services is paramount and therefore you will ensure that you have complete oversight of your areas of responsibility to ensure that the children and young people using our services are safe through effective practice, supervision, and risk management.
As a leader in Children Services, you will create a One Children Services Culture embedding our new Operating Delivery Model (ODM)and ensuring that all elements of Children Services work together to achieve the Strategy, Theory of Change and the Children Services Plan. Working cross the Charity to achieve best outcomes.
You will work to Barnardo’s behaviours ensuring these are implemented with those you lead. Corporately working to ensure we deliver our People and Culture objective to become an employer of choice.
