Performance and Data Team Manager

Brighter Futures for Children

£54,971 - £58,788 per annum

About us
Brighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service.

 

We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Offending Service and traded services with schools.

 

Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy and successful lives.

 

About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Performance and Data team for Children’s Social Care. You are required:

• To lead the design, development and implementation of the company’s performance management systems and arrangements, to ensure the organisation has the information and intelligence it needs to deliver relevant and responsive children’s social care.
• To lead the timely delivery of all relevant statutory returns to central government and to manage the effective preparation, improvement planning and delivery of all performance datasets required during external inspections.
• To lead the development of effective working relationships between individual service areas and the team to understand each service’s performance information needs and requirements. Ensuring a comprehensive and customer focused performance management function for all areas of the directorate.
• To contribute to the wider leadership of the Transformation Agenda to ensure that the team works flexibly and in a coordinated way to plan and deliver effective and efficient services; encourage the sharing of intelligence and skills across the team so that the service is best placed to drive improvement and maintain high quality services.
• To provide guidance and advice to the Company in relation to the business requirements for effective ICT solutions and Business System, in line with the corporate ICT Strategy, for Children’s Services. Representing the Company in strategic discussion and debate and disseminate relevant information to enable the directorate to comply with and influence corporate decisions from a business user perspective.
• To lead the development and implementation of the Company Data Quality Strategy, and related data and information sharing protocols; ensuring that the Company maximizes the use of data and information derived from key information and recording systems.
• To monitor expenditure from the team’s budget.
• To deputise for, and represent, the Service Manager at internal and external activities/meetings relating to performance management as required.
• To represent the Company and contribute to strategic discussions across the Children’s Social Care workforce and wider partnership relating to performance and data management.
• To develop and champion a culture of innovation and enterprise so that individual services are flexible, adaptable, multi-agency and user and carer focused, and the whole organisation learns from its mistakes, shares knowledge about what works, challenges existing practice and develops new models of service delivery.

 

For more information about the role, please read the job description and person specification.

Our offer
We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to put your ideas across. Innovation and ambition are strongly encouraged, and you’ll get a great feel for that working in our friendly and collaborative environment.

 

A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:
• Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
• Incremental holidays starting with 26 days plus public holidays (rising to 33 after 10 years’ service)
• Discounted Child Care (on site nursery)
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Season train ticket loans
• Salary Sacrifice Car Lease Scheme
• A range of local shopping discounts

 

Inclusion and Diversity
We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

 

Asking for Adjustments
Brighter Futures for Children is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions.

If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please let us know.

 

Closing date: 27 April 2025
Interview date: week beginning 5 May 2025

 

We look forward to hearing from you!