One Service Manager SEND / One Service Manager Inclusion

You will lead the day-to-day practice within the SEND team, ensuring we are fully compliant with the Children and Families Act. You will have a passion for keeping up to date on developments in practice and will be committed to delivering the best experience and services for our families. Using your experience of working in a Local Authority and your strong leadership skills you will manage a very busy team to deliver a service that meets the needs of our children and families, whilst developing and supporting the team on our transformational change journey., You will lead multiple teams, including the attendance, pupil inclusion, children missing from education, elective home education and the ethnic minority and Traveller achievement service, working with team managers to deliver outstanding services that have our children and young people at the heart of all decisions. You will be a creative and strong leader with responsibility for further transforming our alternative provision offer, ensuring we have quality and diverse alternative provision that ensures our children continue an education that meets their needs within the borough. You will also be the safeguarding lead for education providing expert advice and guidance to our schools.

You will know that working in Children's Services is a rewarding but very busy and sometimes challenging role. You will be a resilient leader, who can build strong working relationships with our children, families and partners, being able to communicate sometimes un-popular decisions confidently, assertively and kindly.

You will be committed to achieving positive change for children and young people and in supporting our teams to learn, develop and deliver consistently good practice. You will apply an asset-based approach to how you work, with the ability to think quickly and creatively to help overcome challenges. Your highly developed interpersonal skills, alongside a passion for coproduction, will help you to meet the needs of our children and young people.

Wigan Council has been voted 'Overall Council of the Year' at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

Our Borough is made up of a collection of 14 brilliant towns making one great place to live, work and visit. We want our teams to be out there in the borough, rooted in our neighbourhoods so we can work alongside our partners and families. Our refreshed organisation strategy which includes our two missions, Progress with Unity, demonstrates our commitment to getting things right, with a strong focus on fair opportunities for our children:

Create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses by breaking down the barriers that create financial, health, education and environmental inequalities in our borough.

Make all our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them as a genuine partnership with our residents and businesses, who know our communities best, we will help each town and village in the borough to celebrate and maintain their identity whilst understanding and helping to achieve what is needed to thrive.

We have won Council of the Year 3 times across Public Sector Awards in the last 5 years. We have a culture that fosters positivity, courage, accountability, and kindness, rooted in asset-based ways of working, that make a difference for our residents and children.

So, if you are an inspirational leader who wants to be part of Wigan's ambitions to become the best in delivering children's education services then we would love to hear from you.