Programme Manager - Grade L MR

Job title: Programme Manager – Grade L *MR
Job Category: Interims - Senior & Executive
Location: Ballard House, West Hoe Road, West Hoe, Plymouth, Devon, PL1 3BJ, Plymouth City Council
Hours Per Week: 37
Pay: £625.00 per day

Enhanced DBS required
4 days in the office, 1 day remote

Job description
Family Homes for Plymouth Children Programme Manager
Plymouth City Council are looking for a change maker to deliver one of our flagship changes in Childrens Services. Family Homes for Plymouth Children pulls together multiple workstreams to help support children and families in Plymouth that are need crisis support and potentially residential care. We are re designing the way our system supports families through this process. Our priorities and goals for this work are:
1. To keep children safe and in their families
2. To profile children in residential care and match them to foster families
3. To support foster carers with support to enable them to take on children with specialist needs
4. To build our own care homes in the city to keep children near their families and support networks
In the current financial year we aim to save around £8m through changing how we operate to meet these goals.
We need a catalyst to pull the components of this change together and help operate the business to maximise the benefits to children and families in the city, as well as to the Council's budget. The right candidate will fill a role profile that we call a programme manager and is likely to have the skills and experience arising from this type of background, but this role also requires someone who will lead and operate the changes required to our system. Working with Service Directors, Strategic Directors and Councillors, you will have experience of Childrens Services so that professionals respect you and you will have demonstrated how to lead big changes in complex organisations.
This is a really exciting opportunity to join a team committed to change - if you think you can help drive these outcomes with us, we look forward to reviewing you application.
The position is being advertised as a short term contract to ensure the role is covered as soon as possible. The Council will be looking to recruit to permanent positions to take on these responsibilities during the course of our current financial year.