Assistant Director Commissioning and Partnerships

Assistant Director Commissioning and Partnerships

Permanent Contract (or 2-year Fixed Term Contract / Secondment

Are you passionate about improving the lives of children, young people, and families? Do you thrive on partnership working, system leadership, and drivinghighimpactchange? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping Norfolks early help and prevention landscape.

We are seeking a motivated and visionary leader to head up the strategic commissioning of prevention and early help services for children and families across Norfolk. This role is central to ensuring that children and young people flourish, inequalities are reduced, and services across health, education, social care and the voluntary sector work together seamlessly.

As a key part of the Safeguarding, Partnerships and Opportunities leadership team, you will collaborate with senior colleagues across the CYP system, the Integrated Care Board (ICB), Public Health, and a wide network of partners to deliver an integrated approach to early help. You will also deputise for the Director of Safeguarding, Partnerships and Opportunities when required.

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together, make the most of our work spaces, enjoy a healthy work-life balance, and deliver excellent services.

Flexibility is built into the way we work, with hybrid working a key feature for many roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

These are some benefits you can enjoy:

• Generous holiday entitlement
• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service
• Flexible working opportunities dependant on your job role and business need.
• Financial benefits such as:
• Norfolk Rewards our employee discounts programme which helps yousave money on almost anything, from everyday groceries and clothes, to holidays, new technology, gym membership, trips to the cinema and days out.
• A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers
• Relocation expenses (where applicable)
• An advance of your expenses if you travel for work
• Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution, life assurance, death in service payments and dependants pensions.
• Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes
• Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new, ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)
• A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

Job Purpose

To lead an integrated approach to the strategic commissioning of prevention and early help provision for children and families across Norfolk, working with key partners and stakeholders to develop and deliver integrated commissioning that:

enables children and young people to flourish

improves outcomes for children, young people and their families and reduces inequalities

offers coherence for service users, providers, partner agencies and Children's Services and Health operational delivery frontline teams

enables value for money and ensures best use of available resources

reduces demand and prevents the need for more specialist provision.

aligns to government reform around Best Start in Life, Family Hubs, Families First Partnership and Integrated Neighbourhood Working.

To work with senior colleagues across the CYP system to embed commissioned prevention and early help provision for children, young people and families so that services are delivered in an integrated way that makes sense to children, young people and their families and support them to flourish.

To be a member of the extended leadership team for Children's Services, located within the Safeguarding, Partnerships and Opportunities Senior Management Team, with a shared responsibility for the overall management and delivery of services, deputising for the Director of Safeguarding, Partnerships and Opportunities as required.

Context

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