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Service Director: Children & Family Services

Employer
Cornwall Council
Location
Cornwall
Salary
up to £109k + relocation
Closing date
21 Oct 2019

Job Details

Together for Families is a new integrated service that is transforming services for children in Cornwall. It brings health visitors, school nurses and speech and language therapists together with educational and social care colleagues. Our one team approach will make sure families get the help they need, when they need it, and in one go.

As an integral part of our new leadership team, our Service Director for Children & Family Services will play a significant role in shaping the next stages of integration and creating better outcomes for Cornwall’s children through early help and prevention. We want to hear from qualified and  highly experienced Children’s Social Care leaders with outstanding vision, compelling ideas and an impressive track record of improving practice.

Flexible, open-minded and with strong relationship and influencing skills, you’ll be able to demonstrate a track record of impactful leadership across social care, health and education. And, with exposure to all of these areas, there couldn’t be a better grounding for career progression than the experience that this role offers. If you’re a driven and collaborative leader, with a genuine passion for delivering outcomes for children and young people that are beyond the ordinary, then we’d love to hear from you.

Visit www.leading-cornwall.co.uk to find out more. For a confidential discussion, contact David Weir at Tile Hill (07391 565064) or email togetherforfamilies@tile-hill.co.uk

 Closing date: Monday 21st October 2019

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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