Children's Social Care Performance Manager

Job Introduction

Children's Social Care Performance Manager

We have an exciting opportunity in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council Children’s Services to lead the Children’s Services Performance & Intelligence Team. We strive to make a positive difference to the lives of children and young people living in the BCP area, by providing high quality performance analysis and intelligence to inform and support the service on all levels.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced leader with extensive experience of strategic analysis and building cohesive, effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.

Please note that we offer a fully flexible working pattern and great benefits – we are happy to discuss this in more detail if required.

The role:

• Strategic lead for the delivery of performance and management information across children’s services and related other service units and external partners. 
• Strategic lead for performance management for the BCP Safeguarding Children’s Partnership. 
• Contribute to the production and monitoring of strategic plans for children’s services 
• Provide the performance framework for children’s social care and ensure that the Strategic Directors, Members and senior managers have a clear view of the performance of every area of children’s social care. 
• To manage the production of timely, accurate and accessible performance, management information, and intelligence for all levels within the local authority children’s services, wider LA and partnerships.

About you:

• Degree level with qualification relevant to statistics and data analysis 
• Management Qualification (at level 3 or above) or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of one or more programming languages for data analysis (such as T-SQL, Microsoft Access SQL, Python, R, etc.)
• Experience using Power Bi for insight reporting
• Experience of children’s social care management information and performance frameworks
• Experience of designing and implementing a performance framework
• Preparing and presenting complex reports to senior managers and governance boards
• Database management including implementing data quality/data system improvement
• Experience of making statutory returns 
• Experience of producing strategic plans

If you are interested in this role or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Stefanie Gehrig Clark, Head of Performance on 01202 093506 or stefanie.gehrigclark@bcpcouncil.gov.uk for an informal discussion.

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline.  We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services.  By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils. 

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward.  If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.

DBS

BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.