📍 South West England | Hybrid Working
💷 £625 PAYE / £826 Umbrella - Per Day
📅 44-Week Interim Contract
🏢 Local Authority
We’re supporting a forward-thinking Local Authority in the South West to appoint an experienced Programme Manager to lead a high-profile transformation programme within Children’s Services.
This is a key leadership role focused on redesigning services that support vulnerable children and families, helping reduce reliance on residential care while improving outcomes across the system.
The successful candidate will lead a complex multi-workstream programme involving fostering, residential care, sufficiency planning, operational transformation, and stakeholder engagement across senior leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead delivery of a large-scale Children’s Services transformation programme
* Coordinate multiple interdependent workstreams across social care and commissioning
* Drive service redesign initiatives focused on improving outcomes for children and families
* Work closely with senior leaders, operational teams, and elected members
* Support transformation of fostering and residential care pathways
* Ensure programme governance, benefits realisation, and delivery milestones are achieved
* Help shape sustainable operating models and long-term service improvements
About You
We’re looking for an experienced interim leader with:
* Strong Programme Management experience within Children’s Services or Children’s Social Care
* A track record delivering transformation within Local Government
* Experience across fostering, placements, residential care, safeguarding, or permanence services
* Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging with Directors and senior executives
* The ability to lead change within complex public sector environments
* Strong commercial and financial awareness, ideally including savings or efficiency programmes
Additional Information
* Hybrid working model – majority office-based presence required
* Enhanced DBS required
* Inside IR35
* Interviews taking place imminently
If you’re an experienced change leader passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, we’d love to hear from you
Salary description
£625.00 - £826.00 per day