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Head of Finance and Resources (Children's Services Directorate)

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:23:26 +0000

Permanent

Employer: Worcestershire County Council
Location : Worcester
Salary: �71,195 - �78,876 per annum
Closing Date: 24/02/2012

At Worcestershire we are recognised as a high performing Council with a strong financial management culture. Despite reduced funding, we believe if we listen to what the users of our services really want and we deliver this efficiently and effectively we can continue to offer real value to the citizens of Worcestershire. Our Children's Services Directorate already have a well established Change Programme which is committed to making a positive difference to the lives of all our children and young people in Worcestershire. The current post holder has played a key role in our progress to date. With this experience she has been able to secure a promotion to a new opportunity, and we are now keen to recruit a replacement who can help us continue that journey and take us further.

We are seeking a CCAB qualified (or equivalent) and highly talented individual to provide strategic financial and operational leadership within the Children's Services and Resources Directorates. In this senior and influential role you will be an advocate for change, providing support and challenge to the transformation of Children's Services and Resources within the reducing envelope of funding.

You will be able to demonstrate a proven track record of creating and delivering improvements at strategic financial and operational level within a finance and service environment. As well as having significant experience of leading on budget preparation, expenditure monitoring and closure of accounts for a large organisation, you will have supported large change projects, including the provision of rigorous financial evaluation. You will be skilled in leading and motivating teams through rapid change and transformation to achieve improved outcomes. Possessing a strong commercial awareness and business focus, you will be able to evidence success in attracting and securing external funding.

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Chief Executive

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:00:43 +0000

Permanent

Employer: Barnsley MBC
Location : Barnsley
Salary: Competitive salary
Closing Date: 29/02/2012

Barnsley Council is a council with ambition and imagination and despite the challenges of today we are still focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow. We have highly motivated Members working closely with the senior officer team in a stable political environment.

This is a great opportunity for someone who believes in local government, relishes a challenge and can embrace change.

We fully support the role of a chief executive and are looking for someone who can lead and deliver through others, work positively with our partners and enable our communities to flourish despite the difficult times.

If you aspire to being the chief executive of a metropolitan borough where you can really make a difference then come and work with us.

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Head of Highways Infrastructure

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:30:54 +0000

Permanent

Employer: Sheffield City Council
Location : Sheffield
Salary: Grade: DG6 (�63,822 - �68,484)
Closing Date: 01/02/2012

Sheffield is one of the UK's largest cities and has been completely transformed over the last 10 years with major investment in regeneration and infrastructure. To fulfil the Council's Vision of being a modern vibrant City a major piece of the jigsaw to complete the job is to bring the City's highway infrastructure up to standard.

The Council is currently going through the final stages of procurement to appoint a Contractor for a 25 year Highway Maintenance PFI Contract, commencing in mid 2012 to bring the highway network back to a good standard over the initial core investment period (5-7 years) and to sustain these standards over the remaining period (18-20 years).

Your job as Head of Highway Infrastructure is to lead and be responsible for the Council's Highway Maintenance Service, primarily through the strategic and operational management of the PFI Contract. In addition, you will also be responsible for the associated services of: Highway Development Control; Highway Adoptions; Highway Records and Address Management; and Public Rights of Way Records, all of which impact on PFI Contract and Highway Maintenance.

You will be educated to degree level with a relevant professional qualification.

You wil have a compelling track record and extensive experience in either:-
- Strategic leadership and management of highway maintenance services, or
- Strategic leadership and management of projects delivered through PFI/PPP arrangements

However, you will also have a good understanding and experience of both.

The PFI Contract includes the rehabilitation and ongoing maintenance of the full range of highway infrastructure assets and all routine and emergency maintenance activities.

In addition you will control the procurement of Non Core Services such as Local Transport Plan schemes and miscellaneous works for other Council Departments off highway. These will be procured through the PFI Contract or by letting other contracts if necessary.

The post of Head of Highway Infrastructure is a new role and although some of the key service staff will be in post when you start your new job, you will be responsible for establishing the new team and leading it initially through the PFI Contract Mobilisation Period, leading up to services commencement mid 2012 and then during the PFI Contract period itself.

You will be the Council's strategic and professional lead for the Highway Maintenance Service and the complementary activities listed above, managing the PFI Contract worth in the region of £70 million per annum, procuring potentially up to £10 million per annum of other engineering design and construction work, primarily through the PFI Contract and managing an internal team staff budget of £4 million per annum.

Sheffield City Council is an equal opportunities employer and has publicly committed to this by signing up to the Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme. This ensures that all disabled applicants, able to demonstrate that they meet the minimum criteria of the job description are guaranteed an interview.

It is not enough to tick that you are disabled on the monitoring form, if you are disabled and feel this applies to you, please let us know by quoting:- I am eligible for a guaranteed interview under the two ticks scheme on your application form at the bottom of the Suitability for the Job section. Please make sure this is written as a separate paragraph to make sure it does not get lost in the content of your application.

Due to the level of organisational change within the Council, all vacancies that are advertised may be withdrawn at any stage if matched with an employee who is being made redundant. This not only mitigates a redundancy but helps the Council to retain talent. You will be notified directly if this happens and you have submitted an application.

Further information about the Highway Maintenance Service can be found on the councils website.

Programme Manager (Earls Court)

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:13:13 +0000

Permanent

Employer: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
Location : London
Salary: �71,000 (plus PRP of up to 10%)
Closing Date: 05/02/2012

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham are seeking a Programme Manager to successfully deliver one of the largest Regeneration programmes in the UK.

You will need a proven track record in successfully delivering regeneration projects, both in planning and execution across a wide range of partners in both the public and private sector. That experience could have been gained in either a public or private sector setting.

Further details about the Earls Court project can be found at www.myearlscourt.com

Director for Adult Social Care

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:13:30 +0000

Permanent

Employer: Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Location : Solihull
Salary: To �107,309
Closing Date: 27/01/2012

TAKE US TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council successfully serves a diverse set of communities across rural and urban areas, with a rapidly changing demography. These, and other unique features such as a resilient economy and an ongoing nationally recognised regeneration programme, make it stand out from the crowd. We have a good track record for service delivery for which we have been judged as performing well overall, providing value for money and working effectively with Partners.

But there is much still to be done, and none more so than in adult social care where recent changes in local arrangements have brought an under-performing service back into the direct control of the Council. To assist in our priority improvement programme we have a People Directorate that brings together public health, children and adult functions so that there is a holistic and integrated approach to improvement in transformation, performance and productivity.

Within adult social care, in particular, resources and expertise are being re-combined and augmented through closer alignment with our corporate services across the authority, together with developing effective partnerships across health and the voluntary sectors. We have had a challenging journey and the transformation of our adult social care services needs to continue at a pace - because there’s more to come.

We are now looking for a credible and ambitious corporate leader who is keen to build on what has already been delivered. We will provide the challenge. You will bring a diverse range of experience and innovative thinking together with the grit and determination to deliver a complex range of services with fewer resources, in partnership, and to a high standard.

Director of Public Health

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:29:51 +0000

Permanent

Employer: NHS Hertfordshire
Location : Hertfordshire
Salary: NHS Consultant Contract or Very Senior Manager Pay + allowances + relocation
Closing Date: 27/01/2012

Hertfordshire is a prosperous county with a high per capita income, excellent transport links to London and high standards of education. Our residents generally enjoy good standards of living but the County's affluence hides some challenging health inequalities across a number of localities. Annual spend on health service provision for our one million local people currently amounts to around £1.7bn alongside total Council spend of £780m; the sheer scale of the County presents an intricate mix of professional and strategic leadership challenges.

As Hertfordshire's new Director of Public Health, you will integrate public health into the work of the County Council and its partners. As strategic lead for the health and wellbeing of our communities within a dramatically changing NHS landscape, this is a fantastic opportunity to innovate and drive new ways of working to help our communities live longer, healthier lives.

You will be a member of the Leadership team of the County Council and NHS Hertfordshire with managerial accountability to NHS Hertfordshire, reporting directly to the Chief Executive. We are looking for a proven change agent who can think strategically and pragmatically to deliver significant, sustainable improvements to the health of our population.

This is a crucial role, supported by both organisations and we are looking for you to demonstrate:

Delivery of successful outcomes working across a range of partnerships.
A track record of leading a public health workforce, ideally at Director level, as a medic or non-medic.
The ability to innovate, inspire and achieve sustainable change in changing environments.