Salary range: Grade 17: £68,571-£71,055 plus fantastic benefits
Hours of work: 36 hours per week
An exciting opportunity to lead the operational delivery of Experts at Hand across Croydon, supporting the borough’s ambitious SEND transformation programme.
Experts at Hand will bring specialist education and health expertise closer to children, young people, schools, early years settings and colleges, strengthening intervention, mainstream inclusion and multidisciplinary support.
As Delivery Lead, you will coordinate implementation across education, health, social care and wider partners, ensuring effective deployment of specialist expertise and investment. You will lead a skilled multidisciplinary team, establish effective systems and governance, and ensure the programme delivers improved outcomes for children and young people with SEND. We are looking for an experienced operational and transformation leader with strong partnership skills and a proven track record of delivering change in complex, multi-agency environments.
If you are passionate about SEND, inclusion and early intervention and have the leadership skills to turn strategic ambition into meaningful delivery, we would love to hear from you.
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Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Subject to business needs, we will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements and support hybrid working, whereby staff attend the workplace for part of their working week and work from home, or elsewhere, remotely for the rest of the time.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.
Croydon council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
The Successful candidate will be subject to a DBS check, if the role requires one.
We provide a large number of services for local people, businesses and visitors to the borough, including services for children and adults, and environmental, cultural, sports, housing, planning and benefits services.
The borough is split into 24 electoral wards, and local elections are held every four years.
With a workforce of approximately 3,300 staff, including teachers in schools, Croydon Council is the largest employer in the borough. Spending over £900 million per year, the council makes a significant contribution to the local economy.
The council comprises three main political functions, the Executive (Leader and Cabinet), Committees, and Scrutiny.
The Leader and Cabinet are responsible and accountable for shaping policies and plans and recommending them to the council for approval. Cabinet also gives direction to departmental directors on the way services are managed and the budgets allocated to them.
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