Salary: Up to £68,590 for all roles listed below.

Principal Officer - Quality Assurance Business Unit

Here's where your experience and vision will effect real change. As our ambitious transformation and change programme continues to gather momentum, you'll look to deliver a service that is focused on delivering exceptional services for children and families, while also setting the standard for others to follow.

Working closely with and deputising for the Head of Service you'll provide practical advice and achieve your ambitious aims by inspiring, developing and motivating your managers and team, ensuring the kind of effective, efficient day-to-day management that is a strong foundation for driving forward the strategic and transformational agenda.

Key to your success in establishing the policies and procedures that make our Children and Families Service the benchmark, will be an inclusive approach that engages service users in decision-making and inspires partners, agencies and government to collaborate to best effect.

Holding responsibility for the Principal Social Worker role for children and adults as well, this is a challenging role. But it's one you'll thrive in. A qualified and highly experienced Social Worker, you've already cut your teeth on driving change and have an appetite for more. You live and breathe Children's Social Care Services and not only understand the complexities of working at senior management level in a politically sensitive environment, but you can also see the opportunities to facilitate positive change.

You'll take a partnership approach to leading and supporting your people, and to working collaboratively at every level. Here, you'll enjoy all the support you need to bring your innovative ideas to life and to continue the track record of continuous professional development you've already established.

For further information and to apply, please visit: www.southamptonsocialwork.co.uk.

For a confidential conversation you can speak to Theresa Leavy, Head of Children and Families Services on 023 8083 3021.

Principal Officer - Specialist and Core Services (Court and Protection)

Leading change at the sharp end of Children and Families Services is no easy task. But it's one you'll relish as you enjoy all the support and autonomy you need to make a real difference.

Here in Southampton, we mean it when we say we are leading change that is innovative and that delivers the interventions that protect and support children and young adults whenever and wherever needed. So you'll not only ensure effective utilisation of the budget through efficient management, but you'll also oversee far-sighted planning that ensures we are capable of meeting future challenges, seen and unseen.

Providing strategic and operational leadership across a range of disciplines you'll bring an inclusive and collaborative approach, ensuring your people are confident and comfortable in their roles, partners are engaged and colleagues at all levels are communicated to effectively.

A qualified Social Worker with a management qualification, you've already successfully led a Children's Social Care Service. You've also enabled and delivered a substantial programme of change, and with current knowledge of legislation and best practice, you'll have a have clear insight into how local government will change and develop over the next decade. With this vision in mind, you'll know how to shape and develop our people, understand the importance of working inclusively with partners and have the skills to highlight the importance of delivering the best possible services at every stage of a child or young person's life.

For further information and to apply, please visit: www.southamptonsocialwork.co.uk.

For a confidential conversation you can speak to Theresa Leavy, Head of Children and Families Services on 023 8083 3021.

Principal Officer - MASH and Early Help

A champion of children and young people, you also have the skills and experience essential to driving real change.

Here in Southampton, we're uncompromising in our approach to transformation that is life enhancing and ground-breaking and we'll stop at nothing to enable services that are user-focused and innovative. Leading the charge for our Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) and Early Help Services, you'll work from the inside out, refining processes and developing people to deliver responsive, effective and engaging services that make the biggest differences to our most vulnerable children.

Whether you're looking to maximise resource effectiveness or lead cultural change, you never forget that safety and wellbeing of our children are your first priority.

It's nothing you haven't done before. Here, you'll do it all bigger and better, thriving on the learning curve and continuing the professional development that has been the lifeblood of your career.

A qualified and highly experienced social work manager, you've already led and transformed services in a similarly complex, multi-disciplinary organisation. So you know the key to success is an inclusive and collaborative approach, whether you're planning for people and service development, working in partnership with agencies and government, or promoting our sector leading work nationwide.

For further information and to apply, please visit: www.southamptonsocialwork.co.uk

For a confidential conversation you can speak to Theresa Leavy, Head of Children and Families Services on 023 8083 3021.

Principal Officer -Education and Early Years

Our Education and Early Years service is substantial and has even bigger ambitions. Leading from the front and ensuring your managers and staff are supported, you'll guide them through a transformation of cultural and practical improvement that makes our services second to none, and ensures they keep evolving in line with current thinking.

So you'll look beyond ensuring effective operational management to anticipate and identify opportunities to consistently improve performance, internally across the service and externally engaging with our excellent schools, colleges and universities. Ultimately, your success will be evident in raised educational attainment, delivered by a motivated and proactive team and enjoyed by engaged and enthusiastic children and young people across the city.

With experience of leading and driving change in a similarly complex educational environment, you understand and appreciate the challenges at hand. You also see the opportunities and have the skills, experience and vision essential to realising them. Here, you'll work inclusively and collaboratively to drive cultural change, whether that's inspiring your team to set new standards, influencing the influencers or building meaningful partnerships to enhance performance.

This is all in addition to a higher or Masters Degree or equivalent, a relevant professional qualification and a track record of continuous professional development - further evidence that you are an ambassador for lifelong learning.

For further information and to apply, please visit: www.southamptonsocialwork.co.uk.

For a confidential conversation you can speak to Theresa Leavy, Head of Children and Families Services on 023 8083 3021.

Closing date for all roles detailed above: 24 February 2014.

Interview dates for the roles: 6 and 7 March 2014.