Thank you for expressing an interest in our post of Director of Children’s Services at North Somerset Council, a unitary authority with a reputation for innovation and efficiency.

The North Somerset area is an attractive place to live and work, with outstanding schools and excellent road and rail links to London, Bristol, Bath, Devon and Cornwall.

This is a statutory role within our organisation reporting directly to me. The successful candidate will be a key member of my Corporate Leadership Team, helping to drive us forward on our improvement journey and to achieve our ambitions for the service and wider organisation.

We have high ambition for our children and young people and have strong foundations in place to meet the national reforms challenge, and to step successfully into a period of transformation and improvement, which we now need to embed and build upon. We recognise there is still much to be done but we have high performing teams and the motivation to see that we collectively deliver better outcomes for all our children, young people and their families and carers.

You will already have experience of working at a senior level in a large multi-disciplinary organisation and have the vision, values, skills, experience and motivation to lead our committed and professional staff teams, striving to quickly make a positive and sustainable difference. You will need to be excellent at influencing and collaborating across our partnerships.

If you are ready for a new challenge and you have the ability, drive and experience to succeed in this role then we want to hear from you.

Thank you for your interest.