Are you an ambitious leader, dedicated to improving the lives and experiences of children in care? Are you passionate about helping children in care to live locally in stable, loving homes? Can you lead and challenge across teams and partnerships, inspiring and motivating others whilst ensuring the highest quality of care? If so, we want to hear from you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Stable Loving Homes for Children in Care to join our outstanding Children and Families service in North Lincolnshire. Within this role you will provide systems leadership with key responsibility for fostering, adoption, children’s homes and commissioning. Working to the Assistant Director Standards and Regulations, you will drive best outcomes to achieve our One Family Approach ambition for children to thrive in their families, achieve in schools, and flourish in their community.
North Lincolnshire Council is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all sections of our community regardless of age, disability, sex, race, religion, belief or sexual orientation. North Lincolnshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment.
North Lincolnshire Council offers agile, flexible working with a focus on the wellbeing of our workforce with access to an array of training and resources and support in your continuous professional development.
To apply and be considered for this position your application will clearly evidence the job description and employee specification attached.
If you would like any further information or to arrange a conversation, please contact Tom Hewis, Assistant Director Children’s Standards and Regulations at [email protected] or (01724 296422)
Interviews will take place week commencing 7th September.
Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Candidates must be able to evidence their right to work in the UK. Please note the council does not hold a sponsor licence to sponsor people to work in the UK.
As an employer, we promote and safeguard the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from existing and prospective employees or volunteers. Recruitment to this post will follow our safer recruitment procedure which includes us requesting references prior to interview and a DBS check.
We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.
