Performance Manager (Social Care and Early Help)

Do you want to make a positive and measurable difference to children’s lives?

Wandsworth Council is recruiting a permanent Performance Manager to work with Children’s Social Care and Early Help.

This person will be managing a well-respected team of four performance analysts who are dedicated to making data easy to access and use for performance monitoring and decision making. The Performance Manager is expected to work with senior managers at all levels to ensure that performance management and data is embedded across operational teams and that robust data is at the heart of service provision.

This role would be an ideal opportunity for a person who has…

• Extensive experience of working in children’s social care and early help, including a sound understanding of requirements for statutory returns and Ofsted inspections.
• Expert knowledge of reporting tools and visualisation software to extract and manipulate data and make data easy to use and interpret. For example, SQL and Power BI.
• A passion for data with expert communication skills to translate data to insight for operational and leadership audiences at all levels.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build purposeful relationships across organisation boundaries along with the confidence to challenge services and drive sustainable improvement.
• Strong self-motivation and an ability to identify and encourage innovative solutions to problems.

Contact details

For an informal discussion, please contact Jean Mallo at jean.mallo@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

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