About Us:

Driving major service change and transformation to improve the lives of children, young people and families. 

In Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea our Children’s Services are Ofsted outstanding. We put local people and communities at the heart of decision-making, working in partnership with them to provide quality services that are responsive, effective, and efficient. By sharing facilities and expertise with Westminster City Council, we’re able to offer joined-up services for children and their families.

The Transformation and Innovation team manage a variety of strategic change programmes that span Children’s services including social care, early years, early help, youth services education and special educational needs. We are a friendly and hard-working team, committed to improving services for local children and their families.

The Role:

You’ll be working across the two boroughs with responsibility for supporting the delivery of creative and tangible service improvements through a broad spectrum of transformation and change methodologies. You will be providing support on a portfolio of change programmes and working with teams that cut across different departments, functions and organisations, both internally with 

Council teams and services as well as externally with partners and suppliers. 

Using your experience in transformation and service improvement, you’ll help drive and deliver service-led change across Children’s Services. Providing project and programme management for cross-functional initiatives, you’ll focus on meeting increased demand and improving outcomes for children and their families. Although you’ll draw on a range of performance data and business intelligence, it’s customer insights that will be key. Putting the user at the centre of all we do, you will help us transform culture and processes. 
 

Please refer to the Job Description for more information

About You:

You’ll be motivated by improving the outcomes of children and young people and have experience of delivering service change and improvement resulting in improved service outcomes and efficiency. You will ideally have a good understanding of children’s services and the health and social care partner landscape. You will be someone who can form strong partnerships and make connections between different departments, partners and sectors. You’ll be ready to shape and deliver a range of ambitious projects, you’ll be a self-starter able to use your own initiative effectively. 

Resilient, determined and adaptable, you’ll need to be capable of synthesising complex information from diverse sources and making difficult decisions. You’ll also be a skilled collaborator, relationship builder and team worker. 

In return, you can look forward to a package that includes a competitive salary, a high-quality pension scheme and generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

Please apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description. CV’s will not be considered for this role.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applicants. 

Additional information

We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.

We engage our staff with a variety of learning types including face-to-face and virtual learning because we want to ensure our staff understand our values and behaviours, grow their skills and develop their careers.

This post is covered by the Fluency Duty, as outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers.

We do not accept speculative CVs from any source.

Please note, we will primarily contact candidates by e-mail throughout the recruitment process, please monitor your email junk / spam folder as our system generated emails may be allocated to these folders by your email settings.

If you experience difficulties with the recruitment application process, please contact the recruitment team by email: recruitment@rbkc.gov.uk