Wandsworth Children’s Services we have the highest ambitions to deliver the very best for our children and young people. The Performance and Improvement service, sitting within Children’s Services, works to help ensure that we excel in our work with children and their families.

Challenging the status quo and driving transformation will be at the heart of our remit. We will use performance information, business intelligence, customer insight and horizon scanning to inform the delivery of innovative service-led improvement across Children’s Services.

Wandsworth Children’s Services is passionate about improving the lives and life chances of children and young people. The service is looking to recruit to an Policy Manager post on a fixed term contract for 12 months. This is a great opportunity for you to take a significant role in helping us in our work to provide every child and young person the opportunity to realise their potential.

In this role you will manage, you will lead on the design, articulation, and implementation of Children’s Services policies. The role will ensure appropriate support and information regarding national, regional and local policy developments are available to senior leadership, and service managers to inform decision making, planning and development and implementation. In addition to undertake and manage activities to support the departments information governance arrangements.

Contact details

For an informal discussion about the role please contact John O’Sullivan by email john.osullivan@richmondandwadnsworth.gov.uk or if you have technical issues please contact our recruitment team on recrutiment@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Benefits

We recognise the importance of a good balance between work and home life so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working including, working from home, compressed or part-time hours, term time only, job shares and other arrangements. Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process (and beyond) if these are options you’d like to explore.

We also offer a generous holiday allowance of 39 paid days (pro rata) including bank holidays and a wide range of learning and development opportunities. In addition, we offer a comprehensive range of staff benefits such as membership of the Local Government pension scheme, childcare vouchers, new technology scheme, interest-free loans on annual travel cards, discounts with many leisure activities, restaurants, shops and other establishments.

Policy Manager - Job Profile

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