Strategic Performance Lead

3 weeks ago


Croydon, United Kingdom Croydon Council Full time

**The Opportunity**

The post-holder will be the leading expert for the organisation on national and regulatory data and reporting frameworks for Children’s Services, including children’s social care and safeguarding and to ensure compliance with these. Demonstrable expert understanding and knowledge of statutory, policy and regulatory frameworks with regard to Children’s Services is required.

This role will be responsible for providing a sustained stimulus for service improvement and accountability within Children’s Services. This will be achieved through a combination of, measuring and assessing performance and information, providing critical challenge and support to services and providing high-quality intelligence to improve the quality of outcomes.

You will be the first point of contact for this area, providing advice to the Corporate Director, Directors and Heads of Service, consulting with other key stakeholders across the council and partners. You will possess significant experience, understanding and working knowledge of social work practices as well as systems and analytical skills, adding capacity and business knowledge to local authorities

**Why Join Us**
- A pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 20%
- 31 days’ annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays
- Investment into your staff well-being
- Good management support for colleagues and regular supervision
- Fantastic team spirit
- The ethos at Croydon is very much about working together to make positive change
- You will join an established team who can help you settle in and offer their expertise
- Will have the opportunity to work from home and work flexibly which provides you with more of a work-life balance.

**About You**
- In depth knowledge of children’s social care, SEND and Education service areas and performance and data relevant to statutory and operational performance indicators
- Significant experience, understanding and working knowledge of children’s service practices to provide high support and high challenge as well as systems and analytical skills, adding capacity and business knowledge to the service.
- Understanding of Children’s Social Care ICT systems (such as Liquid Logic, Framework I, Care First) working alongside with System Administrators.
- Excellent leadership skills
- Evidence of ability to build and manage effective and resilient relationships inside and outside of the organisation
- Advanced skills and understanding of the collection, recording and analysis of electronic and other data, identifying issues and able to prepare, plan and implement strategic solutions.

Closing date 26th February at 11:59pm

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