Assistant Director Children’s Partnerships and Sufficiency

Assistant Director Children’s Partnerships and Sufficiency

Salary: £100,545 to £111,533 plus relocation support

Location:

Northallerton and hybrid

Term:
Full-time, permanent

As Assistant Director Children’s Partnerships and Sufficiency, you will play a central, system-wide leadership role, connecting across the full breadth of services to children and young people. You will jointly lead delivery of the Council’s ambition for children, with accountability for strategic sufficiency, commissioning and partnership infrastructure that underpins education, care, early years and SEND services. This role offers exceptional exposure to senior leaders across the Council and key partners, including police, health, education, probation, elected members and the voluntary and community sector, and provides a strong platform for leadership development for those with longer-term ambition to progress into senior leadership roles in children’s services.

• Delivering corporate and Children and Young People’s Plan priorities through strong partnership working
• Providing clear, innovative leadership across strategy, commissioning and operational delivery
• Shared responsibility for the overall performance and improvement of Children and Young People’s Services

You will lead statutory responsibilities for school and childcare sufficiency, partnership coordination, and transport, alongside cross-system governance for safeguarding, SEND and early years. You will oversee commissioning, evaluation and market development, ensuring value for money and sustainability. You will work closely with fellow Assistant Directors, Corporate Directors, elected members and senior leaders across partner organisations, exercising significant autonomy and influence.

• CYPS commissioning and contract management
• Partnerships and safeguarding
• Transport
• Early years sufficiency
• School place planning, including capital and PFI

• Be a core member of the Children and Young People’s Leadership Team
• Lead collaboratively across the directorate to ensure strong practice and outcomes
• Sponsor cross-cutting transformation activity in response to local need and national reforms
• Lead prevention, commissioning and targeted services
• Manage delegated budgets and provide assurance on performance and savings
• Lead on resilience, risk and business continuity planning

You will provide outstanding strategic leadership, promote inclusion and model the Council’s values and behaviours. This is a politically restricted post and subject to DBS clearance.

The work base is County Hall in Northallerton and, in addition, you will work from a locality base at least one day per week, whilst being equipped with technology to work where it is must productive, with presence across the county, region, including working from home.