Childrens Assistant Transformation Manager

• Reference: SCC/TP/287914/2767
• Positions: 3
• Salary: £40,296 per annum
• Category: Transformation and Change Management
• Contract type: Fixed term
• Working hours: 36 hours per week
• Posted on: 10 March 2025
• Location: Woking, Surrey

This starting salary for this role is £40,296 per annum, based on a 36 hour working week.

We have 3 Assistant Transformation Manager roles available which are offered as 12 month fixed term contracts to support our Children, Families and Lifelong Learning Directorate with focused programmes of work.

This role offers hybrid working with an expectation that at least two days per week will be spent in locations across Surrey. This includes one day a week with the team who are based in our Woking office, with another spent in Surrey dependent on business requirements.

Rewards and Benefits

• 26 days' holiday (prorated for part time staff), rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5 years' service.
• Buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave
• Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) supporting health and wellbeing
• A generous local government salary related pension
• Lifestyle discounts including gym, travel, shopping and many more
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Learning and development hub where you can access a wealth of resources
• Paternity, adoption and dependents leave

About Us

Our guiding principle, 'No One Left Behind', is at the heart of everything we do in Surrey. It shapes our priority objectives and the way we deliver services. The Children, Families and Lifelong Learning (CFLL) Directorate is committed to investing in internal transformation teams. These teams are crucial in driving high-impact changes in Children's Social Care (CSC) and Additional Needs and Disabilities (AND). They will also spearhead various projects aimed at improving service delivery and efficiency, ensuring we stay true to our guiding principle.

The transformation teams are dedicated to shaping, driving, and facilitating sustainable change and improvement for children in Surrey. By partnering with, challenging, and supporting our stakeholders, we strive to achieve better outcomes for children and young people, against a challenging financial context.

As an Assistant Transformation Manager your role will be supporting the Transformation Manager with identifying the root causes of problems within the service and working to form and implement solutions to these issues.

Through your work, you will create outcomes that are owned by the service and fit for purpose. For Children's Social Care transformation, this means ensuring that we are working with our partners to intervene at the earliest opportunity to prevent escalation of need and where it is appropriate for a child to come into our care, that we have suitable residential and fostering placements within Surrey. For the AND team, this will involve working with stakeholders and partners to deliver against the actions identified in our Local Area SEND Partnership Improvement Plan.

A key part of the role will be relationship building, influencing and negotiating. We're looking for strong influencers to develop and maintain strong and effective relationships across departments, programme teams, customers and key external partners. Our external partners include health, schools, police, District and Borough councils and the Voluntary and Community Sector.

Whilst you will mainly be supporting the Transformation Manager there may be the opportunity to lead on more focused projects within larger transformational programmes making this a great opportunity for someone looking for that next step in their careers.

Shortlisting Criteria

• Relevant project management qualification and/or able to evidence knowledge and understanding of project management.
• Strong research skills, able to use innovative ways to access data and information required.
• Numerical skills including but not limited to basic arithmetic and percentages, ratios and proportions and data interpretation.
• Experience of identifying, collating and using best practice and benchmarking complex data to improve services.
• An ability to analyse and present complex data to individuals and groups in a way that makes it relatable and delivers the intended impact.
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with an ability to tailor your delivery depending on stakeholders.

To apply you will need to upload your CV and answer the following questions:

• Please provide an example of a transformation project you led, detailing the challenges you faced, any strategies you used, and the measurable outcomes achieved?
• Can you describe a time when you used data to support a change to a service? Please include the changes you proposed, and the impact your changes had.
• Can you give an example of a time you used your interpersonal skills to work with diverse stakeholders, tailoring your communication to meet their needs? What was the intended outcome, and did you achieve it?

Contact Us

Please contact us for any questions relating to role requirements, flexible working requests, transferable skills or barriers to employment.

The job advert closes at 23:59 on Sunday the 23rd of March 2025.

Interviews are planned for the 1st or 2nd April 2025 and will be held in person at our Woking office.

There will be a numeracy and scenario assessment as part of the interview. It is anticipated that the assessment and interview process will take approximately an hour and thirty minutes.

An enhanced DBS 'Disclosure and Barring Service' check for regulated activity (formerly known as CRB) and the Children's and Adults' Barred List checks will be required for this role.

Surrey has both urban and rural areas. You will be expected to have a valid driving licence to drive in the UK and access to a vehicle and be willing to travel across a wide geographical area to attend stakeholder meetings as required. Reasonable adjustments where needed will be made for successful applicants who have a disability or long-term health condition to enable them to fulfill the requirements of the job.

Our Values

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Our Commitment

Surrey County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. A guaranteed interview will be offered to all disabled applicants where:

• The candidate has evidenced the minimum criteria for the role through their application
• The candidate has chosen to share that they have a disability on the application form

We want to be an inclusive and diverse employer reflecting the community we serve and particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.