Family Help Development Lead

​​Knowsley Council is an award winning Local Authority, named Local Authority of the Year in the Municipal Journal Awards 2024.  Come join us and be part of our success. 

Are you an experienced Children’s Social Care professional?  Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and their families?  Can you bring about change in a collaborative way?  If so we want to hear from you. 

An exciting opportunity has been created to lead the development of new ways of working in Early Help and Children’s Social Care. You will be working with colleagues from across the partnership to develop our Family Help model of working. This will be in line with Governments expectation but work for the families of Knowsley. 

Previous experience of working in a programme environment, managing projects or people and using data intelligently to improve the way things are done will be an advantage. 

Interviews will be held on Monday 7th April 2025

At Knowsley Council we will consider requests for flexible working.  For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, working from home, compressed hours, part-time.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applicants.

At Knowsley we value our applicants and want them to feel well-informed and welcomed. If you have any questions about this specific job role or what it is like to work at Knowsley, please contact: Abigail Hardman at abigail.hardman@knowsley.gov.uk / 07747631158

If you are interested in this vacancy, please upload your CV along with a supporting statement as one document in PDF or Word format. Your CV and supporting statement should be tailored to reflect the competencies within the person specification.

Please note if a CV and supporting statement does not reflect the person specification it is unlikely to  be shortlisted.