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Head of Service - Cared For & Care Leavers, CHESHIRE EAST COUNCIL
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Join us as a strategic leader driving high-quality practice, strong partnerships and better outcomes across Children’s Services. If you’re passionate about permanence, stability and shaping the future of social care, this is your chance to make a real difference.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Service – Cared For & Care Leavers, based at Delamere House, Crewe. For the Children in our care, we are the corporate parents. That responsibility and that privilege is at the heart of this role. It demands leaders who take it personally.
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This post holds strategic and operational accountability for all children in care and young people leaving care up to the age of 25. You'll lead services committed to reducing drift and delay, achieving timely permanence, and ensuring every child has a stable, safe and nurturing plan. In a Families First world, this means embedding locality working, strengthening family networks earlier, and asking — consistently — whether children can remain within their own networks before care is considered.
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For those young people who are in care, and those making the transition to independence, you will ensure that care plans are of the highest quality, that pathway planning is ambitious, and that the corporate parenting relationship feels real — not bureaucratic. The care leaver agenda is growing in national importance, and Cheshire East is committed to being a council that truly walks alongside its young people into adulthood.
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