Head of Transformation

4 weeks ago


Oxford, United Kingdom Oxfordshire County Council Full time

Job summary

Children, Education and Families (CEF) is directorate of dedicated childrens services professionals faced with continuing increases in demand, costs, and complexity of needs across social care and special educational needs and disability (SEND).

In response, our vision and strategy are to transform services to secure even better outcomes for children and young people and improved financial sustainability.

To achieve this, we have a portfolio of service transformation programmes to shape and deliver, which will enable us, amongst other things, to become increasingly focused on early help and intervention, working more effectively with our local area partners.

Our investment in CEF has created several vacancies. We are looking for experienced transformation and change management professionals to join our newly established CEF Transformation Team to shape and deliver programmes of complex change that will make a difference to children, young people, and their parent carers. Its a really exciting time to join us

Main duties of the job

This is a senior specialist role, responsible for leadership of the newly established CEF Transformation Team and successful delivery of the portfolio of priority programmes, which involve service design and improvement, change management and continuous improvement. As part of this you will:

Lead and manage the CEF Transformation Team, to design and deliver priority programmes and projects within the directorates transformation portfolio, with a relentless focus on improving outcomes for Children and Young People (CYP) and financial sustainability of services. Work alongside the directorates senior stakeholders to identify priorities and bring shape and structure to the directorates transformation plans and delivery. Provide expert support advice and guidance to all transformation and change proposals including service transformation, service-led improvement, and business as usual continuous improvement activities. To provide a joined up and coherent approach to transformation, one that is aligned to the corporate approach, embeds the councils values (Delivering the Future Together) and aspiration (Childrens Oxfordshire Way) to develop new ways of working across all service

About us

Join Oxfordshire County Council on an exciting journey towardsDelivering the Future Together, our ambitious transformation programme which will enable us to be an employer, partner, and place shaper of choice. Were seeking the right people who can help us get there while embracing our value of daring to do it differently, as we continue to strive to do better.

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