Programme Lead Circles to Success - Partnerships and Practice

Are you someone with strategic partnerships experience, able to influence external partners, stakeholders and customers to secure positive outcomes?

In this partnerships-focused role, you’ll bring agencies, providers and professionals together to deliver the ambitions of the Circle to Success programme. You’ll champion integrated working, strengthen key relationships, and drive collaborative approaches that improve outcomes for children and young people. This role offers you the platform to shape a system—not just a service.

We welcome the opportunity to speak to any interested candidates so if you have read the attached job description and still have questions please feel free to email:  or  and they can agree a mutually agreeable time to call you

We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

• 28 days annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years
• Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health pension protection.
• Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days annual leave
• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
• Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
• Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
• A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
• Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
• Subsidised town centre car parking scheme

• You’ll lead and coordinate the Circle to Success programme, ensuring consistent delivery across all partnership-driven work streams.
• You’ll build strong, strategic relationships with external partners, care providers, and stakeholders—creating joined-up approaches to meeting need and improving home stability.
• You’ll share insights and ambition across the system, influencing partners to work toward shared goals and adopt new ways of working.
• You’ll collaborate with partner agencies to expand integrated working opportunities, ensuring the right support is in place at the right time.
• You’ll work with Finance colleagues to track impact and ensure the programme meets agreed savings and performance targets.
• You’ll manage risks, maintain momentum, and ensure the programme delivers on time, on budget, and with clear measurable impact.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, we encourage you to submit your application as early as possible.

You’re a confident and influential relationship‑builder, able to bring diverse partners together around a shared purpose. You’re strategic, collaborative and skilled at navigating complex, multi-agency environments. Your strengths lie in communication, negotiation and creating the conditions for sustainable partnership-led improvement.

You have significant experience of working at a strategic level with partners and external agencies and can influence senior stakeholders and secure buy‑in for shared goals.

Highly organised you are able to balance multiple priorities and effectively use insights and data to shape decisions and drive innovation.

Are committed to positive outcomes for children and young people and understand the importance of a whole-system response.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore subject to an enhanced DBS certificate. It is also a regulated activity and will be subject to a Barred List…