Salary range: £42,149 - £51,799
FTE:
1 (35 hours/week)
Term: Fixed Term (12 months)
Closing date:
31/10/2021
Change-makers sought! Do you
want to help Scotland to Keep The Promise?
We’re looking for an experienced professional to help us to improve the
lives of children, young people and care leavers by supporting the stability
and security all children and young people have a right to.
As a leading improvement and innovation centre in Scotland, CELCIS
works to improve the lives of children and young people in need of care and protection,
their families and carers, and care leavers, by supporting the people and
organisations responsible for their care to make changes in the services,
practices and skills they use.
We’re
looking for someone to be part of our Children’s Services Implementation team
who’ll bring passion, insight and understanding to our work focussed on
enabling effective family support and, where needed, high quality alternative
care for children and young people. This role will work with partners and
stakeholders to create the readiness and conditions necessary to support
transformational change in practice.
This involves working with children’s services, other partner
organisations and with those who have lived experience to support and embed
impactful systems change and improvement. With others in the team, this post
will support the development of genuine partnerships, groups and forums to
share and embed best evidence and to facilitate staged based approaches to
change. At CELCIS we apply a variety of methodologies across our work, within
this team there is a particular focus on the use of Implementation approaches
to drive, enable and embed sustainable complex change.
Central to the role is the ability to apply evidence based approaches,
facilitation, coaching and practical skills to support improvement and support
implementation of innovative and evidence-based practices that will better
meet the needs of children, families and carers. The role would suit
candidates with compassion, sensitivity and the strong relationship-building
skills required to support, facilitate and encourage systemic and strategic
change in practices.
Do you have experience of working within the children’s care and
protection sector? Can you demonstrate a deep understanding of and commitment
the change and improvement set out in the Promise Change Plan, and respecting
lived experience of care? Are you passionate about using improvement
approaches to make this happen?
You will have an appropriate professional qualification / relevant
degree, with substantial practical experience and evidence of successful
collaborative working, including experience of using an improvement and
implementation approach.
Does this sound like you?
Apply now.
Funding for the post: Like for all colleagues in the team, this post is initially
funded for 12 months, with a further 2 years of funding indicated by Scottish
Government. CELCIS has received funding in this way from Scottish Government
since 2010 where we agree our funding level every year, as well as agree the
next two years indicative level.
All CELCIS staff are working remotely at home until the University has
ensured it is safe and essential to work in the office (we are based in the
Curran Building at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow). Flexibility for
blended working arrangements (from home, in the office, and travel to work
with local partners as required for the role) can be available and we are happy to discuss.
Informal enquiries about the post
can be directed to Claire Burns,
Director (Acting) (claire.m.burns@strath.ac.uk).
Formal interviews for this post are expected to be held on 25/11/2021 or
26/11/2021.
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