Total 11 job vacancies by West Sussex County Council

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a manager with experience in business support, finance, and analytics to join Children's Commissioning. This pivotal role offers the chance to shape a growing data and analytics function, driving strategic decisions and delivering impactful transformation.

Here at West Sussex County Council, we are ambitious for all our children and young people, and we are committed to improving our services. The recent Ofsted report of Children's Social Care shows how far we've come, and we continue to drive forward our 'Children First' improvement plans.

You will join us as at a key time on our journey where investment in the commissioning workforce is at an all time high. Children's Commissioning is responsible for ensuring children, young people and their families have access to the right services at the right time.

The Opportunity

Salary: £58,131 to £61,445 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Pattern: Full time - 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Location: Based at County Hall, Chichester or Bridge House, Worthing with hybrid working available and to be discussed at interview.

Interview Date: 19th December 2024, to be held in Worthing

Do you have extensive experience of Analytics and Finance in a Commissioning environment?

Do you have excellent people management skills and can lead and inspire a team?

Can you work at pace and manage competing demands effectively?

If you answered yes to all the above and want to make a difference to the children in your community, then we have the job for you…

As the Service Manager for Business Support and Analytics you will:

• Develop and implement a forward-thinking data and analytics strategy aligned with organisational priorities.
• Build and lead a high-performing data and analytics team, establishing clear structures, processes, and a culture of collaboration.
• Oversee and manage the robust financial operations of children's social care, ensuring compliant spend and accurate financial forecasting.
• Deliver digital transformation, leveraging data to drive strategic commissioning and innovation.
• Enhance reporting capabilities, ensuring insights are actionable and influential at all levels.

You will also support with projects alongside external service providers and internal teams to develop key areas of our business.

You will bring:

• Proven leadership experiencein data and analytics, ideally within a matrix management structure.
• A strong track record of building and developing teams, creating clear pathways for success.
• Expertise in designing and implementing strategiesthat maximise the impact of data.
• Experience managing digital transformation programmesthat improve processes and outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and foster collaboration
• Extensive experience in finance and/or procurement operations, including both internal/external spend, forecasting and demand management.
• Organisational and administrative skills to support and manage a customer focused business support team.

For more information on all the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Benefits

For a full list, this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05465.

The Opportunity

Salary: £46,731 - £49,746 per annum, inclusive of 2024/2025 pay award
Working Pattern: Full-time, 37 hours per week

Location: Your office base will be County Hall, Chichester and a typical week will combine homeworking with attendance at the office. This is led by the needs of the service.

As a high calibre finance professional, you'll be used to working with big numbers. Are you ready to use your financial acumen and professional finance business partnering skills to make a difference to the residents of West Sussex?

We're looking for a finance professional who is qualified, with experience to deliver a finance business partnering model, which includes a full range of high quality financial management and accountancy services to clients. You will be responsible for advising and influencing the service to make informed financial decisions, which will have a direct impact on service delivery.

The role will involve working with Adult Social Care budgets. The service is experiencing a period of unprecedented change, where people are living longer resulting in significant growth in demand for social care services. Since we want to make sure West Sussex is a great place to live, the County Council recognises this challenge and has an ambitious improvement programme. At the heart of this is an aim to promote independence by enabling people to stay healthier and live in their homes and communities for longer. Linking financial data with performance information, and with a naturally enquiring mind, you will play an essential role in supporting the service to build a sustainable model for delivering adult social care services.

If you are looking for a diverse and exciting role which offers the opportunity to build collaborative relationships with the service, develop your talent and support senior officers by offering constructive challenge, assurance, recommendations and innovative solutions to add value to their service, then we would like to hear from you.

What experience and skills are we looking for?

As well as being a finance professional with experience of delivering a finance business partnering model, you will also need to be a:

• Strategic thinker - someone who can think independently and beyond the surface of a task/ issue to provide a strategic view and added value to the service that you support.
• Relationship manager - someone with the ability to successfully manage key client relationships.
• Critical friend - someone with the ability to challenge, persuade, negotiate and influence the service that you support.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme, employers pension contribution at 19.70%
• generous holiday entitlement of 30days plus bank holidays and opportunity to buy additional leave
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00881.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Laura Hardie at with the relevant reference number above. For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, upload your CV and complete the application explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role, with reference to above and ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

The Opportunity

Salary: Hay B £56,713 to £59,946 per annum

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Pattern: 37 hours per week, full time

Location: Countywide - your base location can be from Chichester, Worthing, Horsham, or Bognor. You will need to travel across the county to locations that are not always accessible by public transport.

Closing date: 12 November 2024

Interview date: 18 November 2024 at County Hall, Chichester

Are you experienced in safeguarding children?

Do you have a passion for leading others?

West Sussex County Council (WSCC) are looking for a Business Manager for West Sussex Safeguarding Children's Partnership.

The vision for the West Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSSCP) is to develop "an assured Safeguarding Partnership, which collectively engages with children and their families, enabling them to thrive."

We're looking for a dynamic and experienced manager to provide strategic level to support our partners, being instrumental in managing how each partner agency safeguards and promotes the welfare of children. You will lead three partners: Sussex Police, NHS Sussex, and West Sussex Children's Services.

You will provide on-going support to statutory partners and the Independent Scrutineer, with wider multi-agency impact, and will manage the Partnership Business Team. This high-profile role is essential in improving safeguarding arrangements and front-line inter-agency practice.

You will be pragmatic in your problem-solving decisions, make judgements based on analysis and principles, and tackle varyingly difficult situations of a technical, professional, or people related nature.

We need someone who is passionate about safeguarding children by providing a clear county wide understanding of best practice and experienced in working with partner agencies at a strategic level. You will be self-motivated and experienced in management or leadership, with the confidence to manage, oversee and advise on safeguarding with detailed understanding of statutory and relevant guidance, knowledge of policies and procedures and the ability to provide specialist advice and information to others.

For more information on the Key Skills, Qualifications and/or Experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached. Please refer to the key skills in your cover letter.

About Us

The West Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSSCP), hosted by West Sussex County Council, is the key statutory mechanism for agreeing how the relevant organisations in each local area will co-operate to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and ensuring the effectiveness of what they do.

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 statutory guidance sets out expectations about how we, as a safeguarding children partnership, provide help, support, and protection for children and their families.

The business team within West Sussex Safeguarding Partnership is agile and dynamic and drives forward the safeguarding priorities for the children of West Sussex. This team is fast paced, motivated and passionate about delivering their service. A key role for the business manager is to engage with partner agencies such as the Police, Health and Districts and Boroughs to ensure the best possible outcomes with sustainable positive change.

For further information about us and about working in Children's Social Care at West Sussex County Council, please visit the West Sussex Safeguarding Children Partnership website to find out more.

Benefits

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance, and are rewarded for the work they do.

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including the following:

Further Information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05431.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact our Embedded Coordinator Safeguarding team at

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter.

In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.

This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check, five years referencing and an occupational health check.

Equity, inclusion, and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

We operate a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants that have a disability, are a veteran or are a care leaver. More information can be found on our application help page.

The Opportunity

Are looking to take the first step into a career in project management and business analysis? This could be the job for you!

Salary: £33,945 to £36,648 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent, willing to consider a 1-year fixed term or secondment opportunity.

Base Location: County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working from home available.

Interview date: w/c 28 October 2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Business Improvement Officer. Be a part of a team delivering change that makes a positive difference. Apply now and be part of something rewarding!

Working as part of a team, this role contributes to the implementation of new ways of working, including identifying opportunities for efficiency, reducing costs and improving service delivery.

You will support assigned business improvement and change initiatives to deliver high quality improvement outcomes within target timescales. This will involve working both independently and collaboratively to undertake a range of shaping, planning, reporting and analytical activity to discover relevant information about current service(s), provide input to new design models, assess options and draft proposals, track progress, and identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies in support of programme and continuous improvement delivery.

What we need from you?

As the successful Business Improvement Officer

• Experience of delivering business improvement through the practical application of relevant tools and techniques.
• Experience of undertaking research and analysis of complex data and building options and recommendations to resolve business problems.
• Experience of business process redesign to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Knowledge of project and change management techniques including:
  • Stakeholder communications and engagement planning and delivery.
  • Understanding change impacts and identifying appropriate business readiness activity.
  • Planning, risk and issue management, tracking and reporting progress.
• Skilled in scoping and managing work across teams, meeting deadlines, and demonstrating project and change management abilities.
• Ability to research, analyse, and present diverse information, make connections, identify broader issues, exercise judgment in recommendations, and produce high-quality work independently.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

What's in it for you?

To support your development in the role, you will be encouraged to undertake and complete a relevant Business Improvement apprenticeship.

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00837.

For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

We are particularly interested in hearing from you if you have experience in project management, change management or business analysis and are looking for an opportunity to elevate your career.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Improvement Officer that could be the perfect next step for you! In this role, you'll have the chance to make a difference through delivering change that makes a real impact within our organisation. Join us in shaping the future and take your career to new heights!

The Opportunity

Salary: £41,418 to £44,428 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent, willing to consider a 1-year fixed term or secondment opportunity.

Base Location: County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working from home available.

Interview date: w/c 28 October 2024

Working as part of a team, as the Senior Business Improvement Officer, you will provide project management and/or business analysis expertise to support the implementation of business change, including identifying opportunities for efficiency, reducing costs and improving service delivery.

You will be working closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders to design and deliver high quality business improvement and change outcomes within target timescales. This will involve working both independently and collaboratively to undertake a range of shaping, planning, reporting and analytical activity to discover relevant information about current service(s), provide input to new design models, assess options and draft proposals, track progress, and identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies in support of programme and continuous improvement delivery.

You will provide detailed advice and guidance, including responding to queries and problems, and influencing and persuading individuals through the development of effective relationships in a challenging and complex environment.

What are we looking for?

As the successful Senior Business Improvement Officer, you will:

• Have a keen interest and background in business improvement and change activities, along with a positive can-do attitude, commitment, tenacity, and drive.
• Have experience of service redesign, transformation, and change management, demonstrating full analysis of the impacts of change including assessment of the financial and service benefits.
• Be able to assimilate complex information and establish credibility with a diverse range of stakeholders across all levels.
• Be able to provide significant analytical input through the use of data and support to assigned change initiatives, working both independently and collaboratively with colleagues to deliver outputs to a high standard and planned timescales.
• Be able to quickly establish favourable networks and build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Drawing on your expertise, you will influence and persuade others to embed operational change in a challenging and complex environment.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

To support your development in the role, you will be encouraged to undertake and complete a relevant Business Improvement apprenticeship.

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00871.

For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

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About Us

West Sussex County Council is in a period of change. Increasing demographic pressures, continuing challenges to provide residents and communities with greater levels of choice and control over services, and the tighter financial constraints placed on the authority, mean that the Council needs to change the way it operates.

The role will be supporting the Safeguarding, Planning, Performance and Directly Provided Services Directorate: See more information relating to the Adult Social Care Settings: Careers in Directly Provided Services.

About The Job

Salary: £43,516 to £46,549 per annum
Working Pattern: Full-time (37 hours per week) Mon to Friday 9am- 5pm
Contract Length: Permanent
Base Location: Burnside Day Opportunity service, Burgess Hill. Hybrid working and county wide travel.

This role has a base location detailed, we do operate a 'Smarter working' approach, this will be discussed at interview, for what works best for you and the team.

Effective business management develops and delivers support to Directly Provided Services as well as the Safeguarding and Access team. Your role will enable our services to operate effectively & efficiently.

We're looking for a finance professional with experience to deliver a finance business partnering model, which includes a full range of high-quality financial management and accountancy service. You'll be responsible for advising & influencing the service to make informed financial decisions & have a direct impact on service delivery.

Initially it will involve working with Adult Social Care budgets. The service is experiencing a period of unprecedented change, where people are living longer resulting in significant growth in demand for social care services. Since we want to make sure West Sussex is a great place to live, the County Council recognises this challenge & has an ambitious improvement programme. At the heart of this is an aim to promote independence by enabling people to stay healthier & live in their homes & communities for longer. Linking financial data with performance information, & with a naturally enquiring mind, you will play an essential role in supporting the service to build a sustainable model for delivering adult social care services.

The successful candidate will work alongside, our Assistant Director, 3 Heads of Services and 5 Area Service Managers. Within the Directly Provided Services we support 6 Residential Care homes, 7 Day Opportunity Services & Shared Lives, where self-employed shared lives, carers open up their own homes to provide support on a long- or short-term basis.

Who are we looking for?

As well as being a finance professional with experience of delivering a finance business partnering model, you will also need to be:

• Strategic thinker - someone who can think independently and beyond the surface of a task/ issue to provide a strategic view and added value to the service that you support.
• Relationship manager - someone with the ability to successfully manage key relationships with partners.
• Critical friend - someone with the ability to challenge, persuade, negotiate and influence the service that you support.

In addition, you will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Ability to research, analyse and interpret information to make effective judgements to review the effectiveness of activities and service provision, plan long term and set timescales.
• Ability to identify and analyse risks, and manipulate complex financial data relating to large budgets in the region of £30m.
• Ability to anticipate problems, plan solutions and make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions and recommendations, which will have a wider service impact, particularly in relation to providing a varied and complex service, resource issues and partnership building.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence the actions of others and communicate information which may be complex and contentious. Including the ability to negotiate solutions across wide areas of the business and successfully convince others of the need to take a specific course of action.
• Ability to challenge existing practices and identify innovative solutions within the required framework.
• Ability to articulate problems and lead staff to a position where they can find and implement solutions.

Qualifications &/experience

• Please refer to the attached job description for the full list of qualifications skills we are looking for & this will be used for our short listing criteria.

Rewards & Benefits

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. For a full list of the benefits offered to you as a West Sussex County Council employee you can find them on our Rewards and Benefits page.

How to Apply:

Upload your CV and complete the application explaining the key skills listed on the Job Description and experience you can bring to the role ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check/ portability as required.

Along with a positive can-do attitude, commitment, tenacity, and drive?

This could be the perfect opportunity for you…

The Opportunity

Salary: £41,418 to £44,428 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Base Location: County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working from home available

Interview date: w/c 08 July 2024

Working as part of a team, as the Senior Business Improvement Officer, you will provide technical expertise and leadership on the implementation of innovation and new ways of working, including identifying opportunities for efficiency, reducing costs and improving service delivery.

You will be working closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders to design and deliver high quality business improvement and change outcomes within target timescales. This will involve working both independently and collaboratively to undertake a range of shaping, planning, reporting and analytical activity to discover relevant information about current service(s), provide input to new design models, assess options and draft proposals, track progress, and identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies in support of programme and continuous improvement delivery.

You will provide detailed advice and guidance, including responding to queries and problems, and influencing and persuading individuals through the development of effective relationships in a challenging and complex environment.

What are we looking for?

As the successful Senior Business Improvement Officer, you will:

• Have a keen interest and background in business improvement and change activities, along with a positive can-do attitude, commitment, tenacity, and drive.
• Have experience of service redesign, transformation, and change management, demonstrating full analysis of the impacts of change including assessment of the financial and service benefits.
• Be able to assimilate complex information and establish credibility with a diverse range of stakeholders across all levels.
• Be able to provide significant analytical input through the use of data and support to assigned change initiatives, working both independently and collaboratively with colleagues to deliver outputs to a high standard and planned timescales.
• Be able to quickly establish favourable networks and build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Drawing on your expertise, you will influence and persuade others to embed operational change in a challenging and complex environment.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

To support your development in the role, you will be encouraged to undertake and complete the Level 5 apprenticeship - Improvement specialist / Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 27 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

The reference number for this role is CRS00836.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Chloe Chatfield (Recruitment Specialist) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

The Opportunity

Salary: £52,049 to £55,615 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Base Location: County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working from home available

Interview date: w/c 01 July 2024

Working as part of a team, as the Business Improvement Lead, you will provide technical expertise and leadership on the implementation of innovation and new ways of working, including identifying opportunities for efficiency, reducing costs and improving service delivery.

You will be working closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders to design and deliver high quality business improvement and change outcomes within target timescales. This will involve working both independently and collaboratively to undertake a range of shaping, planning, reporting and analytical activity to discover relevant information about current service(s), provide input to new design models, assess options and draft proposals, track progress, and identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies in support of programme and continuous improvement delivery.

You will provide detailed advice and guidance, including responding to queries and problems, and influencing and persuading individuals through the development of effective relationships in a challenging and complex environment.

What are we looking for?

As the successful Business Improvement Lead, you will:

• You will have previous experience of successfully deliver assigned programme / project documentation as defined and agreed with the Programme and/or Senior Responsible Officer, to a deadline and to the highest quality.
• Experienced in drafting business cases, defining user requirements, and developing and sharing documentation.
• Have experience of managing the production of the business process and the planned deliverables.
• Able to motivate and raise the skill & capabilities of team members to successfully deliver the assigned work as part of the programme / project team.
• Able to identify opportunities to reduce all nonessential costs within the programme / project, continually seek and to improve efficiency whilst adding value into the service.
• Maintain insight and knowledge of other Councils, government associations and market trends.
• Have experience of continually build positive relationships with key stakeholders in other departments / agencies.
• Experience of managing, identifying and mitigating all associated risks & issues that will impact the successful delivery of the programme / project.
• Have experience of analysing documents to ensure the full requirements are establish business benefits and establish gap analysis.
• Have previous experience of managing colleagues when required through programme / project activity.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00838.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Samantha May (Programme Manager) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Equity, inclusion and accessibility is very important to West Sussex County Council. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, as this helps us build a diverse and talented workforce, that reflects the communities we serve. We ensure our approach to recruitment is flexible and supportive to enable all applicants to be at their best and to ensure they have the best possible chance of success.

The Opportunity

Salary: £52,049 to £55,615 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Base Location: County Hall, Chichester, hybrid working from home available

Contract type: Fixed term or Secondment until 01 April 2026

Interview date: w/c 01 July 2024

Working as part of a team, as the Business Improvement Lead, you will provide technical expertise and leadership on the implementation of innovation and new ways of working, including identifying opportunities for efficiency, reducing costs and improving service delivery.

You will be working closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders to design and deliver high quality business improvement and change outcomes within target timescales. This will involve working both independently and collaboratively to undertake a range of shaping, planning, reporting and analytical activity to discover relevant information about current service(s), provide input to new design models, assess options and draft proposals, track progress, and identify and mitigate risks, issues and dependencies in support of programme and continuous improvement delivery.

You will provide detailed advice and guidance, including responding to queries and problems, and influencing and persuading individuals through the development of effective relationships in a challenging and complex environment.

What are we looking for?

As the successful Business Improvement Lead, you will:

• You will have previous experience of successfully deliver assigned programme / project documentation as defined and agreed with the Programme and/or Senior Responsible Officer, to a deadline and to the highest quality.
• Experienced in drafting business cases, defining user requirements, and developing and sharing documentation.
• Have experience of managing the production of the business process and the planned deliverables.
• Able to motivate and raise the skill & capabilities of team members to successfully deliver the assigned work as part of the programme / project team.
• Able to identify opportunities to reduce all nonessential costs within the programme / project, continually seek and to improve efficiency whilst adding value into the service.
• Maintain insight and knowledge of other Councils, government associations and market trends.
• Have experience of continually build positive relationships with key stakeholders in other departments / agencies.
• Experience of managing, identifying and mitigating all associated risks & issues that will impact the successful delivery of the programme / project.
• Have experience of analysing documents to ensure the full requirements are establish business benefits and establish gap analysis.
• Have previous experience of managing colleagues when required through programme / project activity.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00838.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Samantha May (Programme Manager) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

Internal candidates wishing to apply for this role will be considered for a secondment position. Please can you therefore discuss and agree this with your manager before applying for this position.

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Do you have an identification of innovative solutions through the detailed grasp of involved procedures and practices?

The Opportunity

Salary: £45,441 to £48,474 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Based - County Hall, Chichester and working from home

Interview date: w/c 17 June 2024

As the IT Business Analyst, you will undertake analysis of complex and diverse requirements, identifying options for using technical solutions to improve business processes, deliver change and support County Council services.

As part of the wider Consultancy and Research function, you will provide expertise, analysis and advice across various service areas, comprising a substantial county wide support / advisory service.

Liaising, interviewing and consulting with business and IT subject matter experts, you will use a variety of methods and tools to gather, document and evaluate findings, and make recommendations. You will provide guidance, support and input throughout all stages of the project delivery cycle.

You will work within a small customer focused team, responsible for and acting as an initial contact point for engagement with IT Services.

What are we looking for?

• You will have experience of analysing and evaluating complex information, and the identification of innovative solutions through the detailed grasp of involved procedures and practices.

• You will be able to provide expert advice on complex issues verbally and/or through written reports, tackling difficult problems of a technical, professional, resource or people related nature.

• With practical and theoretical knowledge of a range of business analysis tools, methods, and techniques you will work under your own initiative on large and involved analytical tasks.

• You will be confident in making recommendations and contributing to the development of business cases, based on your thorough research and analysis.

• You will need to have experience of delivering to a challenging set of customer focused service objectives, and the ability to plan change and underpinning technology, achieved through developing the shape of future service provision, typically planning on a time horizon of around a year.

• You will be an efficient and effective communicator, nurturing relationships with managers and partners across the wider directorate, other parts of the organisation and external organisations.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00823.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Sarah Worsley (IT Consultant) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.

Here at West Sussex County Council (WSCC) we have an opportunity for a Team Leader to join the Children, Young People and Learning (CYPL) team.

As Team Leader, you'll be supporting your team of administrators to provide self-directed and proactive, confidential professional business and administrative support. This will involve leading a group of administrators, ensuring their work is completed to a high standard within agreed timescales. You will supervise and coach your team, setting and reviewing achievement of team and personal objectives.

Both your work and the work of your team, will include directly supporting the work of social workers by updating databases, attending complex meetings to produce written records, and aiding senior leaders to enable them to deliver their strategic objectives and key outcomes.

You and your team will have direct contact with families/representatives of children and young people. You will also have contact with other professionals, internal and external contacts, and service providers.

Here at West Sussex County Council, we are ambitious for our children and our workforce. We are committed to improving our services for the children and families in West Sussex we support. You will join us as at a key time on our improvement journey. The work we have started includes establishing a new and experienced leadership team driving forward our 'Children First' improvement plan.

We don't underestimate the work that still needs to be done and the challenge ahead. That's why we need professionals, like you, who really want to be part of the positive change that is happening. Be part of an ambitious improvement plan and make a significant difference to children and families in West Sussex. There's never been a more rewarding time to join.

For further information about us and about working in Children's Social Care at West Sussex County Council, please visit Careers in children's social work in West Sussex.

Working for us

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where employees can achieve their full potential, achieve a healthy work-life balance and are rewarded for the work they do. Upon joining us you will have access to a range of benefits including:

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

The Opportunity

Some of the things your role will consist of:

• Delivering a timely and efficient administrative support service through the supervision of a team of administrators, planning the allocation of work to meet demand, co-ordinating the team to meet service objectives and corporate policies and delivering a customer focussed service within available resources.
• Ensuring policies and procedures are followed appropriately and advise upon service impact of policy and/or process amendments.
• Preparing accurate and reliable reports, statistical and other administrative based activity information, including providing ad hoc and regular reports to identify any issues and monitor against objectives.
• Ensuring officers are appropriately briefed for meetings and represent the team/service at meetings as appropriate.
• Supervising administrative staff in a team including outposted staff (if applicable). Manage day-to-day staffing processes such as recruitment and absence management, with support from HR where appropriate.

For a more complex list of key responsibilities, please see the job description.

About you

To succeed in the role, you will need to:

• Have experience of a customer-orientated environment.
• Have developed communicative skills and build strong working relationships at all levels and across teams, as well as with external partners and our children and families.
• Have experience of dealing with confidential and sensitive issues in a professional manner.
• Use your own initiative to achieve the team objectives and plan your team's workload to meet demand and will support your team to deliver output of a high standard.
• Grow your knowledge of the service area to participate in any initiatives and make improvements to processes where appropriate.
• Have excellent literacy and analytical skills to understand and interpret complex written information which will help develop practical, effective approaches and solutions.
• Have excellent numeracy skills to interpret and advise on complex data.
• Be able to make sound pragmatic problem-solving decisions, which will have a wider service impact.
• Be able to provide effective supervisory, coaching and performance management skills including and the ability to provide direction and support to individuals and teams including those working across different disciplines or locations.
• Have sound and accurate IT and keyboard skills.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CAFHE05140.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.