Head of Permanence and Sufficiency

The Role

We have a fantastic opportunity available for a Head of Service – Permanency and Sufficiency to join our Children’s Services team here at Knowsley Council - an award-winning Local Authority.

As Head of Permanence and Sufficiency services you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of children and young people who access support from our service and their families. With overall responsibility for the development and delivery of the Council’s Children Looked After, Care Experienced People, Fostering, Adoption and Residential services you will play a critical role in ensuring our statutory duties are met, and high-quality outcomes are achieved for our children and young people from birth to 25 years.

Working as part of a supportive and collaborative senior leadership team within Children’s Services, you will also support the Chief Executive and Executive Management Team in the achievement of the Council’s priorities, helping to ensure that the Council meets its legal, statutory, and political obligations whilst effectively managing risk.

Our Vision

Following our recent Ofsted inspection, our Children’s Social Care Services (CSC) department are on an improvement journey - one we would love you to join us on.

We have high aspirations for our children and young people and are determined to work together to make the necessary improvements and get to ‘good’ whilst always aiming higher. This is an exciting time to join our service - improving CSC is one of the Council’s main priorities; there’s significant investment in the service, expertise on-hand and as a senior leader within the service opportunities for you to make a real difference; helping to shape the future delivery of CSC for the benefit of our children and young people.  

If you choose to join us, you will be coming to an inclusive, supportive, and friendly team.  You will be joining a new, engaging and ambitious leadership team, who will ensure that you work in an environment where you feel recognised, valued, and listened to.  As a service we offer flexible working, and a vast array of employee benefits details of which can be found on our website.  We welcome you to come and join us on this exciting journey– in return we promise to support, develop, and help you achieve your goals. 

The Person

As our Head of Service – Permanency & Sufficiency you will be an enthusiastic leader, with strong evidence of experience as a senior leader in Children’s Social Care. You will be passionate about leading a range of teams to deliver high quality services to children in care, care experienced people and children with disabilities and will have skills and experience high quality residential and fostering services that consistently evidence improved outcomes for children

If you enjoy working with passionate staff who truly care about what they do, a senior leadership team who work together to achieve a shared vision and a corporate team who wrap their support around Children’s Services to achieve positive outcomes - You may be the perfect candidate for this role

Further Information

At Knowsley Council we will consider requests for flexible working.  For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, part-time.

We promote applications from all sections of the community, regardless of background, belief, or identity, recognising the value that diversity brings to our organisation. We particularly welcome applications from individuals from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and candidates with disabilities as we acknowledge their underrepresentation in our workforce.

At Knowsley we value our applicants and want them to feel well-informed and welcomed. If you have any questions about this specific job role or what it is like to work at Knowsley, please contact: 

Jo Parry, Assistant Executive Director (Early Help and Children’s Social Care)

0151 443 2712

If you are interested in this vacancy, please upload your CV along with a supporting statement as one document in PDF or Word format. Your CV and supporting statement should be tailored to reflect the competencies within the person specification.

Please note if a CV and supporting statement does not reflect the person specification it is unlikely to be shortlisted.