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Assistant Director, Children's Social Care and Youth Inclusion at Merton

Take our Children's Service from Good to Great.

Our ambitious journey for change for Children's Services is well underway through our continuous improvement programme: building our services around the needs of children and families; strengthening our quality assurance; as well as grasping the national agenda for improving permanency for children and delivering our ambitions.

As Head of Social Care profession you will play a major role in embedding this new way of working in order to further improve the already Good assessment that we have proudly achieved. You will demonstrate a proven track record of managing organisational change and leadership across Children's Services and work innovatively with our partners to achieve this. We will provide the environment for you to stretch your career and drive service improvement for the benefit of families and children.

For more information about this exciting opportunity, please visit this link or call Anthony Hopkin on 0750 0042272 or Jonathan Swain on 0750 0961727 at Penna.

Closing date: 3rd January 2013.

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