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Service Director: Children’s Health & Wellbeing

Employer
Cornwall Council
Location
Truro, Cornwall
Salary
Up to £107k
Closing date
7 Jun 2019

Job Details

Our Service Director for Children’s Health & Wellbeing is one of the 4 senior roles that comprise Together for Families - Cornwall Council’s new Integrated Children’s Services Directorate. The post holder is also a member of the Council Leadership Team, reporting directly to Strategic Director for Children, Schools & Families who is our system wide lead for Children’s Services across Education, Health and Social Care for the whole of Cornwall.

As Service Director for Children’s Health & Wellbeing, you will play a key role in bringing forward new ideas and working with health colleagues to improve outcomes for children, ensuring that we deliver on the Council’s obligations to promote public health outcomes. In addition, you will play a key role in leading the integration strategy for children, young people and their families and further enhancing integrated working in Cornwall.

You will lead a team of 350 staff undertaking the following functions:

  • Children’s Community Health Services (Health Visiting, School Nursing and Specialist Speech & Language Therapy) 
  • Early Years Foundation Stage Services
  • Special Education Needs & Disability (SEND) Service
  • Children’s Psychology Services
  • Business Support & Administration

You’ll also bring exceptional professional capability, the highest possible calibre of leadership, and a philosophy of excellence and open-mindedness to a team that’s already making waves.

To find out more, visit www.leading-cornwall.co.uk or for a confidential discussion, contact David Weir at Tile Hill (07391 565064) or email togetherforfamilies@tile-hill.co.uk to arrange a time to speak.

APPLY BY: Friday 7th June

Company

Cornwall has an area of 354,628 hectares and is the second largest county in the region in terms of area but has a relatively low population density. Cornwall comprises the westernmost part of the southwest peninsula, and has an estimated 697 kilometres of coastline including the lower reaches of the main estuaries, the longest of any English county. The sea forms the northern, southern and western boundaries. To the east, Cornwall's border with Devon is formed by the River Tamar, which forms a physical and cultural divide with the rest of Great Britain, for all but 18 km of its length. The Isles of Scilly lie 45 km off Lands End.  The nearest major centre outside the county, Plymouth, is 125 km from Penzance, while Bristol, the regional centre, is 290 km from Penzance, with London 450 km away. The distance between the north and south coasts varies from 72 km at the eastern boundary to as little as 8 km at the western end of the county between Hayle and Marazion. In length Cornwall measures a maximum of 132 km between Lands End and the northeastern boundary at Morwenstow.  Despite a past history of mining, tourism has gradually developed into one of the major industries and there has been some more recent development of the manufacturing industry. Farming is still a key contributor to the local economy and agriculture is the predominant land use. In more recent times Cornwall has seen developments in its renewable energy sector and knowledge economy led, in part, by the creation of the new Combined Universities in Cornwall. The fishing and marine industries contribute greatly to the character of Cornwall.

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0300 1234 100
Location
County Hall
Treyew Road
Cornwall
United Kingdom

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