- Pay Rate:
Up to £222.00 per day PAYE depending on experience TBC
- Hours per Week:
35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- Dudley,
DY1 1HF
Interim Business Support – Service Lead – Children’s Services
Reference no: Dudley 1009692
Pay Rate: Up to £222.00 per day PAYE depending on experience TBC
This opening assignment is for 3 months
Basic DBS disclosure required for this role
Under the overall direction of the Head of Business Support the post holder will be responsible for the children’s services business & executive support function within the Directorate.
The post holder will be responsible for the co-ordination and management of all available resources to provide or commission a high quality service(s) to the Directorate. The post holder will provide effective leadership and management to the service area.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan, monitor and control the work of Business & Executive Support (spread over a number of buildings), setting priorities and liaising with other heads of service, service managers and team managers to ensure the provision of an effective and efficient business support service.
- Manage service provision to meet defined targets and quality standards.
- Ensure that the service meet expectations and achieves service objectives through adopting a proactive, positive and effective approach to performance management at individual and service level.
- Direct responsibility and accountability for the management of Business Support, including income and expenditure authorisation, ensuring effective and proper spend and compliance with statutory financial regulations.
- Promote and implement good employment policy and practice ensuring that individuals are effectively performance managed; supported in their professional development and fully equipped to deliver service expectations.
- Continually review the development of staff within Business Support in line with service requirements.
- Actively review processes and procedures within the Business Support to ensure high quality, accurate and effective support is provided.
- Define standards & documentation to ensure the smooth running of the Business Support & ensure that they are implemented.
- Foster relationships with individuals and managers across Children’s Services to ensure objectives are met.
- Contribute to the recruitment and selection process.
- Ensure effective communications within and across the service areas of responsibility.
- Actively lead and promote a positive approach to equality which ensures the Council meets its statutory obligations, engages with all of its communities and develops an inclusive culture which positively welcomes diversity.
- Make an effective contribution to corporate, directorate and service wide management teams and support the Council’s leadership in service developments and where appropriate key corporate policies and initiatives.
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*** Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Full UK driving licence is required for this role.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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