Head of Stable Loving Homes for Children in Care

Head of Stable Loving Homes for Children in Care

Rate: Negotiable day rate, Inside IR35 (via umbrella)

Duration: 3 months initially

Working pattern: Hybrid - minimum of 3 days per week in Lincolnshire

About the Role

This is a senior leadership opportunity with responsibility for fostering, adoption, placement commissioning, and a children’s home. The main focus will be delivering the Council’s sufficiency strategy, ensuring there is sufficient, high-quality care provision to meet the needs of children in care and care leavers, within a wider transformation agenda. Working as part of a visible senior leadership team, you will lead service improvement, ensure statutory and regulatory requirements are met, and drive better outcomes for vulnerable children and young people.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the children’s care sufficiency strategy, ensuring appropriate placements and accommodation are available to meet local need.
• Oversee fostering, adoption, placement commissioning and children’s home provision, ensuring quality, safety and regulatory compliance.
• Drive transformation and service improvement, developing efficient and sustainable ways of working.
• Provide strategic leadership and assurance in relation to perfo...