Principal Officer - Social Work Transformation

We are looking to appoint a driven and inspiring individual who, as a team player, will be committed to quality, innovation, transformation and partnership.

The post holder will lead the continued implementation and embedding of the signs of safety practice model for children and family services, and the IT system that underpins it, in addition to the ongoing wider implementation of signs of safety with partner agencies.

You will also have lead responsibility and management oversight of policy development and quality improvement.

You will manage our corporate parenting and participation officer, ensuring the voice of children and young people is at the heart of strategy and service development.

You will role model adaptive leadership approaches to ensure a clear, inclusive and engaged approach across all of Children and Family Services to strengthen the involvement of service users, carers, local communities and key stakeholders. You will enable and participate in conversations to ensure planning to design and deliver services with and for children and families focus' on outcomes.

You will display a highly developed collaborative and compassionate leadership style, being values based in your approach to support safe and effective care for the children and families in Bridgend, with the ability to influence and drive positive outcomes.

If you believe you have the skills, values, knowledge and experience to provide compassionate, collaborative and dynamic leadership to Children and Family Services, then we would welcome your application.

Protecting children, young people or adults at risk is a core responsibility of all council employees.

Criminal records check by the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) is a requirement for this post.

Standby Duties are a requirement of this post.

Closing Date: 04 December 2024

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