Innovation And Improvement Team Leader

Are you looking to make a positive impact on the lives of children and their families? Do you enjoy making improvements to the way things are done? Are you a team player who is able to motivate those that you work with? Then we might have an opportunity for you…

Greenwich Children’s Services is an exciting place to work and we are ambitious for our children and families.  We put children, young people and families at the centre of everything we do and pride ourselves on delivering effective and values driven services, relentlessly focused on continuous improvement. 

As a member of our new Delivery and Improvement Service which sits within the Quality Improvement Division, you will be responsible for helping continue to shape and deliver our new Quality Improvement Framework as well as managing a portfolio of projects to improve the lives of  children, young people and families. 

We are recruiting to a range of posts in our new service which is comprised of our Innovation and Improvement team and Partnerships and Participation team (including the statutory Safeguarding Children Partnership and the Children and Young People Partnership):

Innovation and Improvement

-             Innovation and Improvement Team Leader (PO6) x 1

-             Innovation and Improvement Officer (PO3) x 1

Partnerships and Participation

-             Partnership Manager (PO6) x 1

-             Insight and Influence Lead (PO4) x 1

-             Partnership Officers (PO3) x 2 FTE

-             Partnership Support Officer (SO2) x 1

Recent projects and initiatives that the service has helped to deliver have included:

-             Opening a new children’s home for adolescent young people

-             Innovation projects for children and young people at risk of harm due to contextual safeguarding

-             Mentoring programme for Children in our Care and Care Leavers

-             Comprehensive Innovation and change management projects

-             Developing an in-house service for participation which leads on ensures the insight from children, young people and families is aligned to strategic decision making.

Sitting at the heart of the Children’s Services Directorate, you will be part of a team responsible for enabling, introducing, and ensuring the sustainment of continuous improvement activities alongside delivering bespoke Innovation and Improvement projects that support the delivery of effective and efficient services.

We are looking for individuals who thrive in working in fast-paced environments, who are comfortable working with senior leaders and have the ability to challenge conventional ways of working whilst motivating and leading multi-disciplinary project teams to bring lasting positive change.

Applicants are required to submit a full application addressing the individual Person Specification.  Please do not submit CVs.

If you are interested in finding out more, please contact:

Caroline Ringwood, Partnerships and Participation Lead on 020 8921 3533 for Partnerships and Participation posts.

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact David Travis ;    David.Travis@royalgreenwich.gov.uk     020 8921 6467  

JD & PS

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