Project Manager (Changing Futures Programme)
- Employer
- Stoke-on-Trent City Council
- Location
- Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
- Salary
- £37,890 - £40,876
- Closing date
- 23 Jan 2022
- Reference
- 0000012898
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- Sector
- Central Government
- Job Type
- Management
- Contract Type
- Full time temporary
- Working Pattern
- Standard
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Directorate: Social Care, Health Integration and Wellbeing
Section: Adult Social Care
Grade: Level 12
Hours: 37 hours
Close date: 23rd January 2022
This advert is open to Internal and external applicants
There are two posts available, these are temporary, fixed term until March 2024.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council as part of the Changing Futures Programme are recruiting to a range of new posts, seeking a diverse team to join us and make a lasting difference.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council are the lead body in a partnership of organisations to deliver the DLUHC Changing Futures programme. This ambitious new programme will support people facing multiple disadvantage, including discrimination, homelessness, domestic abuse, mental health, drug and alcohol and interactions with the criminal justice system.
The programme's aims are: To improve the way that local systems and services work for people experiencing multiple disadvantage who are traditionally not well served by services. To use the learning from this to influence future government programmes and policy Promoting equality and diversity, and co-production with people with lived experience are central to the programme.
About the role: You will manage and deliver a range of complex and high-level projects and sub-programmes within the Changing Futures Programme as well as co-ordinating, monitoring and supporting other related strategic and enabling workstreams. Working closely with departmental and enabler leads, programme/project managers and multiple stakeholders to plan, manage and drive achievement of objectives using effective portfolio and programme/project management approaches, taking direct responsibility for the successful delivery of all elements to agreed levels of time, budget and quality. Working within the Adult Social Care Programme Management Office and in conjunction with the central Portfolio Management Office to ensure that Changing Futures projects are delivered on time and to budget.. You will promote equality, diversity and inclusion, learning and system change throughout.
About You You will demonstrate: Leadership skills - motivating and inspiring individuals and teams to be visionary, bold and creative. A track a record in project management in complex health, care or support services which deliver positive outcomes is desirable. Experience in implementing innovative service approaches or models, working in collaboration with multiple partners would be advantageous. Experience of promoting equality and diversity, and co-production would be advantageous.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. This position is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the successful applicant will be subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
To Apply - please visit our website https://webrecruitment.stoke.gov.uk/wrl/ If you have any queries or want an application form in another format, please email recruitment@stoke.gov.uk or call us on 01782 238189.
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About us
Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a unitary authority employing approximately 4,600 staff who deliver 700 services to more than 260,000 residents. Our city comprises of six towns: Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall. We are a city of strengths, with a proud heritage and bright future. We have undergone significant changes over the last few years. New ways of working have already transformed many service areas and we are determined to continue to develop more innovative approaches to ensure that we can maximise the benefits of transformation.
Our city
Although the 13th largest city in the UK, Stoke-on-Trent is rapidly outstripping a number of parts of the country with our economic growth and recovery.
Stoke-on-Trent is a city with a strong sense of civic pride - we’ve been voted the kindest city in the UK – and a place where you’ll receive a hugely warm welcome. We have a rich and diverse culture, steeped in our prestigious industrial heritage as the celebrated ‘world capital of ceramics’. But we don’t just want to celebrate our proud past – we firmly believe that Stoke-on-Trent’s best years are ahead of it. We are determined to raise aspirations and match them with high-quality education and health provision, as well as improved opportunities to secure fulfilling and well-paid work. Through uniting social and economic opportunities, we are maximising the full power of the city council as a secure and steadfast institution within the city.
Rewards and benefits
When you work for Stoke-on-Trent City Council you’ll be helping to improve the lives and wellbeing of our residents. We’ll provide you with support, learning opportunities and flexible working options and some amazing benefits including; a competitive salary, generous holidays, an excellent defined local authority benefit pension scheme, annual leave purchase scheme, cycle to work schemes just to name a few. We also have access to lifestyle benefits which offer a wide range of discounts such as family days out, travel, retail and many more.
Our commitment to you
Vibrancy and diversity are two of Stoke-on-Trent’s greatest assets. A city founded on creative endeavour should value and celebrate the multitude of voices, ideas and identities that shape its culture. We are committed to creating a culture which is truly inclusive, where all staff feel valued, listened to, supported and able to do their work to the best of their abilities at all times. And we must ensure that our decisions and policies nurture and empower communities across our city and do not inadvertently disadvantage groups and individuals that we want to help to thrive.
Our approach to Equality and Diversity is an invitation to all our communities to work with and for us so we can continue to improve how we deliver services residents need.
Our employee networks are inclusive, open forums for colleagues with similar lived experiences. They allow staff to meet, support and mentor each other, alongside being a voice for under-represented groups to advise and support the organisation when developing policies and services.
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- Telephone
- 01782 238189
- Location
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Stoke on Trent City Council
Civic Centre
Glebe Street
Stoke-on-Trent
Staffordshire
ST4 1HH
United Kingdom
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