Head of Service: Coroners and Registration Services

6 months ago


Huntingdon, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire County Council Full time

About the role
As the Head of Service for the Coroners and Registration Services you will act as the senior professional lead with responsibility for providing inclusive and compassionate leadership, as well as managing and developing both services to ensure the highest quality services are delivered.

You will be accountable for the performance of the Services and work with colleagues, and external partners to ensure appropriate operating practices, policies, plans, contracts, and strategies are effective, embedded, and meet both legal and corporate governance requirements.

In your professional lead capacity, you will monitor regulatory landscape changes and ensure arrangements are in place to meet new requirements and to take advantage of future opportunities.

What will you be doing?
The Head of Coroners and Registration Services will
- Provide operational leadership to the Coronial and Registration Services teams
- Lead service development and change
- Ensure statutory duties are delivered and performance requirements are met, monitored and reported
- Act as the Proper Officer representative for the Registration Service
- Provide robust resource and financial management
- Produce service delivery plans, committee reports and briefings
- Develop strong internal and external collaborative partnerships
- Ensure necessary infrastructure requirements, including contracts are in place through commissioning to meet the needs of the services and its customers.

About you
To fill this role you will
- possess an extensive knowledge and understanding of the service areas
- be highly motivated, resilient, and self-aware
- have a successful record of achievement and delivering good performance
- have experience of successful leadership and management
- be able to think systematically, problem solve, and be outcome led
- have excellent interpersonal skills
- be able to analyse and interpret data to inform service delivery
- have experience of leading and coordinating projects

About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme



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