About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Service as a Planning and Performance Officer, with a strong focus on Early Help, prevention and system reform. In this role you will support the Early Help Strategic Manager and senior leaders to deliver Families First for Children Programme reforms and wider Early Help priorities. You will contribute to strategic planning, performance management, programme delivery and improvement activity across Children’s Services, helping to ensure children, young people and families receive the right help at the right time. You will work with performance data, policy, research and partnership intelligence to support evidence‑based decision making, strengthen Early Help outcomes and ensure readiness for inspection and assurance activity. This is an opportunity to develop strategic analysis, programme management, system working and governance skills, while making a meaningful contribution to improving outcomes for families.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
This role works alongside and reports to the Early Help Strategic Manager and operates across Children’s Services, working closely with Early Help services, social care, performance and data colleagues, and a wide range of internal and external partners. The post contributes to the delivery of high‑quality practice, strong performance management and continuous improvement across Children’s Services, with a particular focus on Early Help delivery and service transformation in line with Families First Partnership Programme.
About You
- Contribute to strategic planning and improve overall performance of Children’s Services, creating better outcomes for children and young people.
- Provide flexible resource for agile project management of specific projects and initiatives on departmental, cross‑departmental and cross‑agency basis.
- Maintain an overview of performance and project governance of service improvement initiatives to support the Department and Council in delivering high quality services.
- Deliver outturns and narrative for service level performance indicators in the corporate plan.
Your Skills
- Experience with performance management frameworks, reporting and presenting.
- Excellent written skills with ability to produce reports, briefings and narrative on performance data.
- Experience managing projects and running boards and panels.
- Data analysis experience and strong ICT skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Required Qualifications
Standard DBS
Contact Information
Interviews for this job will be held on 16th June 2026.
Please seek line manager approval before applying for this role as secondment.
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