WM SEND & AP Change Programme Manager

at  Telford and Wrekin Council

Job Introduction
The Programme Manager will develop, manage and successfully deliver the programme management of the SEND and AP Change Programme for the West Midlands area with Telford & Wrekin, Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. This is a complex, high value-projects taking direct responsibility for the successful delivery of all of the national reforms within a specified level of time, budget and quality.
The Programme Manager will negotiate and manage resources effectively and deploy and coordinate resources in a well-planned and controlled manner, ensuring that project requirements and resource levels are fully identified, including staffing, financial and ICT requirements. This will include oversight of the communication, finance and data across the 4 areas.
The Programme Manager will ensure that change is managed effectively by working with relevant project teams, persons within the business and other key stakeholders across the West Midlands partnership.
The Programme Manager will establish regional Change Programme Partnerships (CPPs) building the necessary evidence base to inform future decisions on embedding those changes across the system via legislation and/or funding. It is not a series of pilots or interventions, but a way of testing whole system change in an area.

The change programme will test reforms that fall broadly into the following four policy areas:

• National Standards;
• Partnership, Plans and Dashboards;
• AP Service; and
• Commissioning Reform

The testing of the reforms will be fed back to the DfE project team for consideration to develop changes as part of national change.
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We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax efficient Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes
• Free on-site parking
• Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day
• Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling
• Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments

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