This is a hybrid based role (3 days in the office, 2 days working remotely).
Key Responsibilities for the Transformation Manager (Children’s Services)
- Lead on providing specialist operational and technical support for transformational programmes and projects.
- Evaluate existing service provision and apply specialist expertise and judgement to develop innovative solutions in order to maximise service quality and meet customer requirements
- Improve children's social care; transform services for children and young people with additional needs and disabilities; enable all age learning; deliver new models for emotional wellbeing and mental health services; and health/social care integration
- Degree or equivalent experience at management level, demonstrating both knowledge and practical application of change management, project management and continuous improvement methodologies.
- Process review tools and techniques, e.g. LEAN
- Workshop planning, facilitation and output
- Project scoping, options appraisal and business case development
- Service and organisational redesign skills including Target Operating Model and blueprint development
- Benefits realisation methodologies
- Ability to liaise internally and externally at senior levels in a complex political environment to establish service requirements and priorities, and evidence of delivering tangible improvements to business processes and strategies.
- Ability to lead and coach staff and to develop broader internal consultancy expertise.
- Satisfactory DBS clearance is required for this role