Senior employees

The roles and responsibilities of Blackpool Council's senior officers.

Chief executive

Areas of responsibility:

• Give direction and leadership on the achievement of the council's corporate and strategic objectives
• Act as an interface between the political executive and employees and the organisation and the community
• Lead and influence at an organisational, local, regional and national level to ensure that the agreed goals and targets are achieved to meet the aspirations and needs of the people of Blackpool
• Act as principal adviser to the leader and elected members on the development of the council's strategic aim
• Advise on the formulation of policy, the setting of strategic priorities and the allocation of resources to reflect the council's corporate and wider community objectives including improving public health

Director of adult services/Director of health and care integration (Blackpool), Lancs and South Cumbria ICB

Areas of responsibility:

• Statutory role of Director of Adult Social Services (DASS)
• Accountability for assessing local needs, ensuring availability and delivery of a full range of services
• Professional leadership including workforce planning
• Leading the implementation and performance monitoring of standards
• Managing cultural change
• Promoting local access and ownership and driving partnership working
• Promoting social inclusion and wellbeing
• Commissioning services for adults which deliver quality, value for money, meet identified needs, and integrated with relevant partners
• Strategic contribution on behalf of the council to planning and delivery of health and social care integration and transformation of health and social care services in accordance with national policy directives.
• Chair Health and Social Care Career Academy, promoting the sector, good recruitment and retention, and training fit for the changing needs of the workforce
• Resource planning to support changes in statute, national and regional policy and case law
• Oversight of the humanitarian response requirements of the emergency plan. 

Director of children’s services

Areas of responsibility:

• Children’s social care
• Fostering adoption and residential services
• Safeguarding quality and review
• Early help for children and families, young people’s service
• Headstart
• Youth offending
• School standards
• Access and inclusion
• SEND
• Contracts and commissioning (joint with health)
• Business support and resources

Director of communications and regeneration

Areas of responsibility:

• Sustaining and growing the economy through inward investment, stimulating business grown and start-ups along with developing relationship with the business sector
• Informing and promoting council services to the residents of Blackpool
• Responsibility for the council’s planning, building control and strategic transportation services
• Delivering major regeneration projects across the town including Houndshill, Talbot Gateway, Blackpool Central, leisure assets, enterprise zones and Showtown the Blackpool museum 
• Providing support to local people to improve employability prospects
• Promote the town to inbound tourists and help, with the private sector to develop compelling reasons to visit
• Directs the delivery of the council's cultural offer in the form of art, heritage and libraries providing enrichment both in schools and for the benefit of the wider local population

Director of community and environmental services

Areas of responsibility

• Public protection and enforcement
• Highways and traffic management
• Coastal and environmental partnerships
• Waste and environmental operations
• Leisure and parks and green environment
• Integrated transport
• School catering services

Director of governance and partnerships

Areas of responsibility:

• Statutory role, has a key role in ensuring the lawfulness and fairness of corporate decision making
• Ensuring compliance with codes and protocols, promoting good governance and high ethical standards
• Providing a comprehensive governance support service to elected members and all departments of the council.

Director of public health

Areas of responsibility:

• Reviewing evidence of effectiveness to inform commissioning strategy and service design in health and social care
• Health needs assessment and monitoring patterns of diseases (JSNA)
• Planning and development of services that support behaviour change (tobacco, alcohol, obesity)
• Research and impact assessment
• Advocating for policy change at local and national levels in order to improve health
• Health protection and communicable disease control, including health emergency planning and pandemic response

Director of resources

Areas of responsibility:

• Statutory finance officer role as per s.151 of the Local Government Act 1972
• Revenues, benefits and customer services
• Accountancy and exchequer services
• ICT
• Procurement, energy and projects
• Audit and risk services
• Property and asset management services

Director of strategy and assistant chief executive

Areas of responsibility:

• Overall lead for defining and articulating headline council objectives, strategy, corporate plans and associated performance frameworks
• Direct managerial responsibility for corporate planning, performance, research, commissioning and all housing functions
• Lead officer for support, oversight and scrutiny of council’s wholly owned companies.
• Lead for council interface with local enterprise partnership, shadow combined authority and associated departments and ministries of state.
• Direct support to the leader and chief executive on any aspect of the strategic management of the council
• Direct support and advice to the wider political executive
• Deputise for the chief executive in internal and external environments

Advisory teacher - Communication and interaction

Areas of responsibility:

• Work to the vision, direction and strategic for the SEND Service, ensuring the provision of effective, efficient and high quality support and advice with regard to the educational and behavioural issues of children and young people
• Follow person centred planning approaches and facilitate person centred planning meetings within education settings
• Promote inclusion and development of SEND provision within educational settings
• Contribute to the development and delivery of SEND services within schools
• To promote inclusion and wellbeing and ensure the needs of vulnerable young people are met
• Promote the contribution of SEND to the development of effective services for children and young people, families and communities and work in partnership with others across the LA in order to improve outcomes for children and young people
• To promote collaborative working with other agencies
• To develop the capacity within educational settings to meet the needs of young people with SEND
• To monitor and support schools in developing the identification and assessment of children to meet their SEND needs
• Provide statutory advice to assist in the formulation of an education, health and care plan

Advisory teacher 

Areas of responsibility:

• Work to the vision, direction and strategic for the SEND Service, ensuring the provision of effective, efficient and high quality support and advice with regard to the educational and behavioural issues of children and young people
• Follow person centred planning approaches and facilitate person centred planning meetings within education settings
• Promote inclusion and development of SEND provision within educational settings
• Contribute to the development and delivery of SEND services within schools
• To promote inclusion and wellbeing and ensure the needs of vulnerable young people are met
• Promote the contribution of SEND to the development of effective services for children and young people, families and communities and work in partnership with others across the LA in order to improve outcomes for children and young people
• To promote collaborative working with other agencies
• To develop the capacity within educational settings to meet the needs of young people with SEND
• To monitor and support schools in developing the identification and assessment of children to meet their SEND needs
• Provide statutory advice to assist in the formulation of an education, health and care plan

Asset manager - Investment portfolio

Areas of responsibility:

• To act as senior professional expert in managing and expanding the council’s investment portfolio
• To be the principal point of contact for new lettings, rent reviews, lease renewals, service charge management, easements, valuations and general estates management
• Undertake both rental and capital asset valuations

Assistant director of children's services - Childrens social care and TIS 

Areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for the provision of both statutory and not statutory social care services to children in Blackpool, provided by Blackpool Council
• Responsibility for ensuring we provide effective targeted early help for children and families
• Ensuring that we safeguard and support children through statutory intervention via our assessment child in need, child protection, children looked after and leaving care support

Assistant director of children's services - school improvement and special educational needs

Areas of responsibility:

• The assistant director of children's services -School improvement and special educational needs provides strategic leadership and direction for the school improvement service, learning outside the classroom, school organisation and admissions, school inclusion and safeguarding, Blackpool Music Service and the pupil welfare service, virtual school, SEND, school finance and early years. As part of this work the Blackpool School Improvement Board governance, strategic planning, direction and oversight is included.

Benefits manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Operational delivery of the benefits service for Blackpool and Fylde
• Expertise and knowledge to resolve complex issues
• Procedures, judgements and decisions to maintain and improve service delivery
• Analysis, interpretation and reporting of performance data, recommending and implementing changes to deliver process and performance improvement
• Continuous review of policies and strategies and implementation of new initiatives
• Build and maintain relationships with Blackpool and Fylde Council colleagues and external agencies
• Control, direction and leadership of the staff within the benefits service
• Maintenance of the security of the systems in use, particularly with regard to data protection issues

Better start early years coordinator/manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To work collaboratively across the early years sector to lead on the development and embedding of the early years partnership strategy and ABS outcomes
• To coordinate, on behalf of the local authority and the Better Start Partnership, the local area speech, language and communication strategy for early years and its implementation
• To work collaboratively with the CECD research and evaluation team to ensure effective monitoring and evaluation of projects
• To support the local authority to fulfil its obligations towards the Better Start partnership and systems change programme
• To support on the development of early years multi agency working and system change to ensure the best possible outcome for children aged 0 to 5
• To support on the development of early years multi agency working to ensure the best possible outcome for children aged 0 to 5
• To coordinate the identified Better Start projects.

Child care legal team manager

Areas of responsibility:

• The most senior child care solicitor within the council
• Undertakes the day to day management, support and supervision of a team of 12 solicitors, lawyers and Legal support officers; working closely alongside all levels of personnel within children’s services with particular focus on policies and procedures; case allocation; regular liaison and meetings with the local judiciary and third party sectors including CAFCASS, health, the police and colleagues from other Lancashire based local authorities to try to continually improve processes and procedures around family justice to ensure they best meet the needs and support the welfare interests of children and families within Blackpool and Lancashire generally

Child protection chair

Areas of responsibility:

• To co-ordinate and chair complex child protection conferences (multi-agency meetings) within the required statutory timescales to ensure children are safeguarded and their welfare is promoted in all circumstances
• To monitor individual child protection plans, by checking that they meet the identified needs of the child/young person; provide feedback to social workers and managers which identify opportunities for improvement and highlights good practice
• To offer robust feedback and challenge to children’s social care managers, social workers and professionals within partner agencies in relation to social work planning and practice. This will include senior professionals within external organisations
• To ensure managers within children’s social care and partner agencies are fulfilling their responsibilities in line with national social work and fostering legislation, Blackpool Safeguarding Children’s Board business plan and good practice standards
• To ensure the ‘voice of the child’ is central to the on-going assessment and planning process This will be achieved through direct consultation and discussion with children, family members (including carers) as well as professionals and regular audit activity
• Undertake audit activity to monitor processes and identify opportunities for improvement to ensure that processes meet the standards required by legislation and government guidance, departmental policies, council policies and interagency procedures
• To make a significant contribution to the development of standards and procedures for Blackpool Council’s children’s social care through findings from child protection conferences and other related meetings
• To assist in the development of standards and procedures for children’s social care by ensuring legislation and guidance in relation to children subject of a child protection plan and learning from audit activity and reviews is taken into account
• Collect, collate and analyse information as set out within internal procedures to inform service planning

Child protection chair team manager and designated officer

Areas of responsibility:

• The post holder will be responsible for the leadership, management and supervision of up to 4 child protection chairs. You will ensure that children’s child protection plans are progressing and achieving positive outcomes.
• The post holder ensures effective and timely allocation of all children’s cases that meet the threshold for initial child protection conference and reviews.
• The role holder also undertakes the function of the Children’s Designated Officer (previously referred to as LADO)

Consultant in public health

Role 1 - Children's public health, healthcare public health

Areas of responsibility:

• Healthcare public health – including working with NHS partners on cancer, diabetes, CVD and COPD prevention
• Long term conditions and self care
• Working with primary care networks and integrated neighbourhood teams
• Tobacco control policy and strategy
• Public health intelligence, including Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
• Commissioning NHS health checks
• Healthy weight
• Oral health
• Support to Blackpool Fairness Commission
• Empowering people and communities work with voluntary sector partners
• Sudden unexplained death in children (SUDC) prevention and child death overview panel (CDOP)

Role 2 - Children's public health, health protection

• Health protection
• Migrant and asylum seeker health
• Public health workforce
• 0 to 19 commissioned services
• Cancer prevention (screening programmes)

Role 3 - Health improvement, public health research

Areas of responsibility:

• Consultant in public health - Health improvement, public health research
• Blackpool Health Determinants research collaboration
• Wider determinants of health research
• Service evaluation
• Academic public health partnerships including universities and National Institute of Health and Care Research networks
• Co-production

Role 4 - Health improvements and adult public health

Areas of responsibility:

• Provision of specialist public health advice on :
  • Infection prevention and disease control
  • Mental health and wellbeing promotion
  • Drug and alcohol treatment and harm reduction
  • Sexual health prevention and clinical treatment services
  • Healthy urban planning
  • Blood-borne viruses including HIV and hepatitis
  • Housing, homelessness including affordable warmth

Corporate marketing and PR manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To take a lead role in communicating and informing Blackpool residents, the media and stakeholders about the services the council offers, the projects it is developing and the work it is engaged in

Deputy head of IT services

Areas of responsibility:

• Leading the technical infrastructure team.
• Management of the technical and business IT programme
• Cyber security lead
• Data centre management
• Deputy senior information risk officer
• Developing new and existing technologies for council and business use
• Strategic lead for customer support

Deputy head of legal services - regeneration and governance

Areas of responsibility:

• I am responsible for leading, managing, shaping and developing all aspects of the property legal service, driving high performance and value for money, building external partnerships, encouraging innovation to help deliver the council's vision
• Leading and managing the overall property legal service with an emphasis on the development of the service to meet the needs of the council, the advancement of innovative ways of providing legal support to the council and contributing to the effective management of the councils' resources
• Undertaking a personal caseload commensurate with the post, in particular complex work relating to the provision of legal property advice, drafting of complex documentation and regeneration projects
• To project lead, and help shape and manage that of other team members, to a standard consistent with good practice and LEXCEL standards

Development and operational manager

Areas of responsibility

• Lead project teams in a highly agile IT environment with a focus on the efficient operation of daily activities
• Build and support the council’s hosted managed service offer
• Carry out the duties of technical design authority for the IT services department
• Project lead on building innovative technical solutions, methodologies or strategies
• Design, prototype and document cloud and DevOps enabled scalable solutions to council services in alignment with new and improving architectural standards
• Provide technical oversight to a wide range of architectural advancements, driving cloud adoption
• Provide high-level oversight at project development level; influencing decision-making and assisting to prioritise business and infrastructural programs and teams
• Partner with council infrastructure and security teams to assure compliance
• Develop and promote good-practice infrastructural procedures
• Mentor junior team members

Divisional commissioning manager

Areas of responsibility

• The role of the divisional commissioning manager is to provide strategic and day to day management, coordination and delivery of key functions throughout the commissioning process
• The role involves working across both adults social care and children’s services, working with Heads of service to review, plan, develop, implement and monitor commissioned services
• To work strategically to ensure services are in place to meet the needs of the residents of Blackpool within the budgets, council priorities and the statutory duties under the relevant legislative frameworks in social care. Ensuring that those services are delivered to a high quality and where this falls short put in place measures to address this
• The role involves working across partner and provider organisations in the wider health and social care system. Service areas covered (Not exclusively) in adults social care: residential care, domiciliary care, LD and Autism care and support, Supported living for mental health and physical disabilities, day care, and respite services, extra care peace of mind, Healthwatch and statutory advocacy. In children’s services: residential and foster care through our homefinding service, short breaks and respite, care at home, and statutory advocacy

Early help manager - Request for support

Areas of responsibility

• To manage, direct and guide multi-disciplinary early help teams providing focused high quality practice, preventative and whole family intervention to safeguard children, young people and residents to reduce vulnerability
• To lead, coordinate and quality assure the delivery of early help services across the locality and town
• To ensure that high quality, effective services are delivered to children, families and residents in the locality resulting in improved outcomes and which are cost effective

Early help manager - Support services 

Areas of responsibility:

• To manage, direct and guide multi-disciplinary early help team’s providing focused high quality practice, preventative and whole family intervention to safeguard children, young people and residents to reduce vulnerability
• To lead, coordinate and quality assure the delivery of early help services across the locality and town
• To ensure that high quality, effective services are delivered to children, families and residents in Blackpool resulting in improved outcomes and which are cost effective

Early years consultant

Areas of responsibility

• To maintain up to date knowledge of all matters relating to the EYFS and provide advice, guidance, support and challenge to all practitioners working across all sectors in the EYFS across Blackpool
• To provide support and challenge in early years provision with less than Good Ofsted outcomes in order to improve quality to at least a good level
• To identify training requirements, coordinate and lead on planning and dissemination of training relating to the EYFS for practitioners working in Early Years provision
• To provide advice and guidance for Early Years provision and liaise with other professionals to ensure that children with SEND have their needs met
• To undertake and lead on moderation activities for statutory and non-statutory assessments in the EYFS

Education inclusion officer

Areas of responsibility:

• Statutory management of the guidelines for exclusions from school and timelines for permanent exclusions from schools process and procedures including provision for excluded students from day 6
• Support and guidance for parents/carers of excluded students
• Statutory management for elective home education and co-ordination of support
• Co-ordination of work with all schools for anti-bullying work, advice, guidance and training;
• Work carried out within Schools Standards and Effectiveness team (including school complaints, support and challenge etc)
• North West representative on the national group for elective home education professionals
• Co-Chair of North West Exclusions Network group;
• Education representative and school response co-ordinator for serious case reviews

Educational psychologist

Areas of responsibility:

To provide an educational psychology service to schools, children’s services and families within Blackpool and contribute to raising standards within Blackpool schools. To have responsibility for providing appropriate support, advice and intervention to ensuring that the council meets the needs of those children and young people (0-25 years) with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and delivers appropriate statutory and local targets in improving outcomes.

Examples of main duties/responsibilities:

• Using evidence-based psychological approaches, provide advice, problem solving support, intervention and review to education-associated staff, parents, children, young people and the local authority
• To work collaboratively with staff within and outside the local authority to support integrated service delivery to children and young people
• To actively promote inclusion and work effectively with other services and colleagues, particularly school-based staff, to ensure that achievement is promoted and attainment gaps are closed for pupils with SEND

Emergency duty team manager

Areas of responsibility

• Rotas
• Liaison with Payroll and HR
• Supervision x 8 permanent staff and 6 casual staff
• IPA x 8 permanent
• Shift cover
• Out of hours support
• Acting as social worker in sickness
• Providing mentorship
• Approved mental health professional
• Attending meetings regarding housing, mental health, adult and children’s service

Estates management surveyor 

Areas of responsibility:

Responsible for the day-to-day management of the property portfolio including :

• Arranging new leases/licences and carrying out renewals ensuring these agreements are satisfactorily completed within the agreed timetable, budget and service standards
• Managing rent reviews and lease renewals, managing any rent review disputes and agreeing any variations to the lease and terms for surrenders
• Undertaking valuations for the purposes of establishing rental and capital values for new agreements or for sale of properties and negotiating and settling terms with the prospective tenant, licensee or buyer, and reinstatement values
• To undertake property valuations for financial reporting purposes in accordance with the requirements of the RICS valuation standards
• To provide valuation advice in accordance with the requirements of the RICS valuation standards (where appropriate) as required to others in the council and technical and professional expertise to assist with the delivery of estate management in which the service unit is involved

Exchequer services manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Manages the exchequer services team, consisting of accounts payable, accounts receivable, Ccshiers, payroll and the management of the corporate income management system including ensuring payment card industry compliance.
• Ensuring cash is collected using a variety of recovery methods and suppliers and staff are paid on time

Finance manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Manage an accounting team that provides management and financial accounting support to directorates
• Provide financial advice to the directors
• Provide financial advice on large scale and transformational projects for e.g. growth and prosperity schemes, waste collection and disposal, street lighting PFI, and Blackpool Museum
• Provide taxation advice including managing the council’s corporation tax and VAT positions including liaison with council wholly-owned companies
• Provide treasury management advice to the director of resources
• Produce the council’s budget and statement of account to statutory deadlines
• Manage the external audit process for the council
• Produce consolidated council companies financial reporting

Growth and prosperity programme director

Areas of responsibility:

• The growth and prosperity programme director leads the growing places division which includes the growth and prosperity, planning, transport policy, project development and funding, building control, built heritage and conservation and land charges teams whose role is to develop and implement an overall programme to bring new investment and jobs and develop, monitor and implement the town and country planning system in Blackpool.

HM Coroner

Areas of responsibility:

• Decide whether a post mortem examination is necessary for the purpose of the investigation and, if so, to give directions to an appropriate medical practitioner
• To investigate the circumstances of the deaths of all persons whose bodies are lying within their jurisdiction where there is reason to believe that the death was violent, unnatural or of unknown cause
• To ensure that the causes and circumstances of all deaths reported are thoroughly investigated and the full facts are established
• To hold an inquest, with or without a jury, where required to do so in accordance with the Coroners and Justice Act 2009
• To make annual returns to the Secretary of State in connection with the inquests held and deaths enquired into

Head of accountancy - deputy s151 officer

Areas of responsibility:

• Budgetary and financial management
• Annual accounts
• Treasury management (cash flow management, banking, borrowing and investing)
• Taxation advice

Head of adult social care - Community services and principal social worker 

Areas of responsibility:

• To provide senior management leadership, direction and support to the service managers who manage team managers in adult services. This includes the initial assessment team, Blackpool north and Blackpool south adults teams, the hospital discharge teams, neighbourhood teams, ARC, SPoD, hospice based social worker, CHC staff, and the rapid response plus team. To manage the business support services manager and the business manager
• To take a lead role in the senior management team in developing practice and practice standards and act as the principal social worker within the service areas listed above undertaking the duties and responsibilities as listed below

Head of adult social care (MH, LD, Autism) and principal social worker 

Areas of responsibility:

• To provide senior management leadership, direction and support to the service managers in adult services for mental health and learning disabilities. This includes the adult and older adult mental health teams, the integrated learning disability team, the primary and intermediate mental health team local authority staff. To manage the DoLS/LPS team and the project officer lead
• To take a lead role in the senior management team in developing practice and practice standards and act as the principal social worker within the service areas listed above undertaking the duties and responsibilities as listed below

Head of arts

Areas of responsibility:

• Strategic direction and expert advice on cultural and arts policy, its development and implementation across Blackpool
• Oversees management of the arts service and works in partnership with other council departments, Arts Council England, arts organisations, artists and a range of other organisations and agencies
• Oversees the management of the Grundy Art Gallery that houses the council’s fine art collection. The gallery team delivers a programme of both historical and contemporary art exhibitions, professional development for artists and emerging curators, and a public engagement programme
• Leadership and expertise in securing investment for arts and culture into Blackpool through various funding strands

Head of audit and risk

Areas of responsibility:

• Internal audit
• Risk management
• Insurance
• Emergency planning
• Business continuity planning
• Fraud and investigations
• Health and Safety

Head of building control

Areas of responsibility:

• The role is responsible for managing Blackpool Council’s building control service in administering the council’s statutory responsibilities with regard to the Building Regulations and the Building Act and to deliver an efficient, cost-effective service in accordance with national performance standards and council policies
• Provide support, specialist advice and guidance and exercise delegated powers where authorised, to outside bodies or any meetings of working groups
• Discharging council responsibility dealing with safety at sports grounds, chair of safety advisory group for safety at sports grounds and issuing general safety certificate for Blackpool Football Club 
• Take appropriate action to acquire resolution to any breach of the building regulations which appears to warrant enforcement action and to appear in court at such times as may be required to give evidence in support of prosecutions
• Set building regulations charges, prepare and monitor budgets relating to the building control section to ensure that the service is self-financing

Head of care and support

Areas of responsibility:

Head of service leading the delivery of a number of CQC regulated health and social care services, OFSTED regulated children's home (respite and short breaks) and interventions to meet the holistic needs of Blackpool residents:

• Regulated care services (CQC – Care Quality Commission)
• ARC - Integrated health and social care intermediate care (residential)
• Care at home services
• Reablement
• Home’s Best
• Home First
• Primary night care team
• Palliative care team
• Urgent and crisis care
• Langdale daytime activity service (learning disabilities)
• Keats day service (mental health and wellbeing - dementia)
• Social care volunteers service
• Shared Lives service (short breaks, day support and longer term placements)
• Independent visitor and friend for life service
• Assistive technology service (Vitaline)
• Residential respite service (learning disabilities)
• Resident children's home (OFSTED)
• Phoenix Centre (mental health crisis)
• Provider – Peer support and resilience team

Head of coastal and environmental partnerships 

Areas of responsibility:

• Chair of the Fylde Peninsula Water Management Partnership with Fylde, Wyre, Lancashire County Council, Environment Agency, United Utilities and Keep Britain Tidy delivering a strategic multi-agency approach to the management of water and improvements to bathing water quality
• Strategic and statutory duties in respect of flood risk management including developing a strategy, consenting and enforcing policies, coast protection and surface water management
• Strategic and statutory duties in respect of bathing water controller with responsibility for liaising with Defra, the Environment Agency and the Turning Tides Partnership on measures to improve quality and bathing waters
• Delivery of coast protection and surface water flood risk capital projects
• Delivery of Lancashire and Blackpool Flood Risk Management Strategy
• Strategic management and monitoring of the council's street lighting and traffic signals private finance initiative

Head of corporate delivery, performance and commissioning

Areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for the strategic and operational management of a range of care and support services to vulnerable adults.
• Work across adult social care and the corporate delivery unit to deliver key reviews and improvement projects across the council
• Contribute to the strategic and operational leadership and management of the division/department
• Member of supervisory body and designated decision maker when required for statutory DOLS requests (Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards)
• Lead responsibility for key areas of divisional business, operational lead for the council on the emergency response group
• Lead responsibility for own service areas in business development, risk management, internal and external stakeholder liaison and contract/performance monitoring

Head of democratic governance (deputy monitoring officer)

Areas of responsibility:

• Electoral services
• Member and civic support
• Constitutional advice
• Members code of conduct
• Promotion of corporate governance
• Executive and cabinet member support (decision making)
• School appeals support
• Scrutiny support
• Councilors delegated budget
• School governance

Head of development management

Areas of responsibility:

• Delivery of the development management service including the provision of pre-application planning advice
• The determination of all forms of planning application
• Provision of advice and support to the council’s planning committee
• The defense of council planning decisions upon appeal

Head of economic and cultural services

Areas of responsibility:

• The head of economic and cultural services oversees a department which promotes economic and cultural growth and prosperity for all residents including:
  • The economic development division provides essential business support, advice, training and workspace provision for new and existing businesses to start, grow and create jobs. The award winning Work and Health team pioneer support to adult job seekers, often with complex needs, to help them gain and sustain employment.
  • The cultural services division delivers the full range of library service offers across a network of eight community libraries; maintains the nationally significant Grundy Art Gallery and a range of additional arts provision; cares for and manages the council's extensive heritage collections via the local history centre based at Central Library.
  • The adult and community learning team which delivers a wide range of basic skills for local residents
• The post contributes to and helps facilitate corporate initiatives, notably the council’s business loans fund and other economic development projects.

Head of enterprise zones

Areas of responsibility:

• Seek inward investment , to support economic growth and support and encourage investment by existing Fylde coast business, in addition to providing advice and guidance on strategic economic issues as well as leading on many major development projects
• Lead on the development and promotion of the new enterprise zones at Blackpool Airport and Hillhouse International business park at Thornton in Wyre
• Overview for the three authorities on development of key employment sectors including energy and public sector related activity

Head of equality and diversity

Areas of responsibility:

• This role is responsible for leading the council and its wholly owned companies’ equality, diversity and cohesion responsibilities, in respect of compliance with the Equality Act 2010, and its associated public equality duty and varied other regulations
• The role ensures that Blackpool Council, councillors, officers, companies and relevant public sector partnerships and strategic procurement agreements comply with all relevant equality and diversity legislation and associated frameworks of practice

Head of heritage

Areas of responsibility:

• The head of heritage is responsible for advising the council on its policies and plans to manage, care, develop and exploit the potential of its heritage assets; working in partnership and advocating the needs of Blackpool at a local and national level
• The post manages a dedicated team of heritage based professionals who oversee and manage the council’s historic archives and artefact collections, plus a specialist project team to deliver the Blackpool Museum project
• The post plays a key role in driving forward strategic heritage based initiatives, in this capacity the post-holder is the council lead for the delivery of the Blackpool Museum project, a major capital project to develop and deliver Showtown: The museum of fun and entertainment telling the story of the first mass seaside report in the world.

Head of highways and traffic management services

Areas of responsibility:

• To provide management to the highways and traffic management division (Highway asset management, highway inspections, NRSWA inspection, highway project management, traffic management and engineering), maximising the impact and contribution of the services to local residents and visitors to the town
• To provide professional advice to the cabinet and elected members on all matters relating to the services provided by the division in order to meet the needs of the borough
• To be part of the community and environmental services departmental management team, working alongside the director in the overall management of the department
• To represent and deputise for the director in the local, county, regional and national arena
• To be responsible and accountable for the management and development of the highways and traffic management division
• To embed the philosophy of 'progress through partnership', providing the vehicle for local people to be a part of service management and development; involvement, empowerment and ownership
• To lead the challenge of innovative redesign and delivery of services to increase productivity and deliver transformational change
• To be empowered to create and design appropriate frontline service integration models for delivery, thinking creatively in order to deliver efficiencies and quality services
• To lead on service strategy development, contributing to the council's strategic management process and vision
• To provide leadership and direction to staff, ensuring all are aware and committed to maximising the service and department's role in Blackpool's future
• To be accountable for service performance, creating a performance management culture, underpinned by the principles of best practice and continuous improvement
• To support and guide council members in relation to their aspirations and role as local elected councilors

Head of housing

Areas of responsibility:

• Setting strategy and bringing forward new housing to meet the needs of the town
• Improving housing and neighbourhood conditions
• Regulating the private rented sector
• Providing services that prevent and respond to homelessness
• Makes decisions on investment in council housing
• Oversees the work of Blackpool Coastal Housing which manages council housing in Blackpool, and Blackpool Housing Company which invests in acquiring and refurbishing homes for rent in inner Blackpool

Head of human resources and workforce development

Areas of responsibility:

• Resourcing (MIS and recruitment and safeguarding)
• HR administration
• Employee relations (disciplinaries, grievances and cases)
• Schools HR contracts
• Organisation and workforce development
• Occupational health and wellbeing

Head of ICT services

Areas of responsibility:

• ICT strategy, policy and developments
• Senior information risk officer (SIRO)
• Information and data security
• Data centres, networks and infrastructure
• Business intelligence and systems team
• Telephones and mobile communications
• ICT support including helpdesk
• ICT schools support
• ICT traded services

Head of information governance

Areas of responsibility:

• Statutory data protection officer for the council, wholly owned companies and selected schools/academies
• Organisational compliance with data protection legislation
• Management and investigation of data breaches
• Individual rights team who process requests for information under the UK GDPR, Freedom of Information Act and Environmental Information Regulations
• Customer relations team who facilitate the processes for compliments, comments, complaints and MP's/councillor's enquiries

Head of investment

Areas of responsibility:

• To actively contribute to the creation, development, implementation and review of the growth and prosperity strategic plan
• To identify, develop, market and secure new and compelling commercial and residential investment opportunities, primarily within Blackpool, and also outside the borough
• To be the principal point of contact for all inward investment and commercial development enquiries including responsibility for proactively promoting investment opportunities to the developer/investor market
• Lead in professional negotiations with developers/investors
• Ensure robust project assessment and appraisals are undertaken
• Manage the process of obtaining appropriate project approvals using applicable procedures and guidelines
• Maintain excellent developer/investor relationships
• Liaison with external funding bodies e.g. Homes England
• To provide commercial valuation advice in relation to the deliverability of projects
• To write business plans and seek new funding streams from capital/revenue budgets, local authority borrowing and other sources

Head of key leisure assets

Areas of responsibility:

• Asset operator management and communication
• Tennant management and communication
• Tower illuminations management
• Portfolio administration
• Project management

Head of legal

Areas of responsibility:

• The post holder will be responsible for leading, managing, shaping and developing all aspects of the Legal Service, driving high performance and value for money, building external partnerships, encouraging innovation and embedding cultural change, to help deliver the council’s vision
• To lead and manage the legal service with an emphasis on the development of the service to meet the needs of the council, the advancement of innovative ways of providing legal support to the council and contributing to the effective management of the councils’ resources
• To undertake a personal caseload commensurate with the post, in particular complex work relating to the provision of legal advice and advocacy, drafting of complex documentation and litigation
• To project lead, control and plan relating to own caseload and help shape and manage that of other team members, to a standard consistent with good practice and LEXCEL standards

Head of life events

Areas of responsibility:

• The post holder is the proper officer with the statutory and legal responsibility for ensuring that the registration of births, deaths and marriages are carried out legally and within due timescales. Leading the registration service in a range of statutory and non-statutory disciplines adhering to statutory timescales, providing and marketing the service to meet the needs of the customers
• The post holder has responsibility for managing the coroner's support service and its associated budget. The coroner is an independent appointment but the post holder is the council’s lead officer and works alongside the coroner (and assistant coroners in the coroner's absence), regarding issues such as staffing, support, planning and budgets
• The post holder is responsible for the council’s crematorium and cemeteries and its associated budgets. Leading a customer focused bereavement service and its facilities, in line with statutory duties and performance targets.
• The post holder is responsible for the customer relations team who facilitate the processes for compliments, comments and MPs/councillors enquiries for children's and adult services
• The team also have responsibility for the production of statistical information and reports for all council complaints and customer feedback

Head of planning - Quality and control

Areas of responsibility

• Provide appropriate specialist knowledge support to the department in relevant operational functions, ensuring key performance targets are met and procedures are adhered to
• Responsible for the overall management of the planning quality and control area of the growing places division, as well as effective delivery and management of statutory processes
• Have overall management and leadership responsibility for three discrete teams – Development management, building control and divisional support, as well as specific responsibility for conservation and heritage

Head of planning strategy

Areas of responsibility

• To co-ordinate and implement as head of planning strategy, the council’s priorities and statutory responsibilities in respect of development plan policy with particular emphasis on reviewing, preparing and progressing to adoption the council’s local plan and other statutory and non-statutory plans and policies for the future development of Blackpool
• To ensure that Blackpool’s priorities, regenerative and economic needs, are appropriately reflected in strategies that will guide and direct future development and investment in the sub-region
• To provide specialist planning advice in respect of strategic development proposals, initiatives and consultations to support Blackpool’s regeneration
• To provide specialist advocacy advice representing the council on complex planning issues to secure the implementation of policy in line with strategic priorities
• To work across council services and with external partners and stakeholders in developing and delivering a regeneration agenda that will enable Blackpool to improve its economic performance, overcome deprivation issues and enhance the quality of the physical environment

Head of procurement and exchequer services

Areas of responsibility:

• Corporate procurement and projects
• Performance, improvement and development
• Energy and sustainability management
• Exchequer services

Head of programme delivery

Areas of responsibility:

• The head of programme delivery leads on the delivery of the Talbot Gateway programme, a key strategic project for the council and manages significant strategic regeneration and investment projects working with stakeholders, private developers and government agencies

Head of programme management

Areas of responsibility:

• The head of programme management is responsible for developing the overall programme for growth and prosperity
• Including the establishment of appropriate business planning procedures and protocols
• In addition to this, they are responsible for the delivery of a number of key strategic development projects for the council

Head of project development and funding

Areas of responsibility:

• The role leads on external funding sourcing, developing and managing high value fundedprojects across the council that transform, revitalise and provide a significant positive impact on the Blackpool and the Fylde coast economy. Projects include those of a visitor economy, business, commercial or housing-led nature. The projects have a high degree of positive impact on Blackpool
• Key activities include business planning, programme and project management support, performance monitoring, strategic partnership development, bid writing/project fund sourcing, risk management and business continuity

Head of property and asset management

Areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for ensuring the council complies with its legal duties for property management, maintenance, servicing and inspection, facilities management arrangements and asset management, implementing policy and procedures to comply with all legislative statutory duties and approve codes of practice for all council buildings
• Manage the councils property services department to achieve corporate objectives within established budgets and targets. Provide leadership and direction to staff to achieve department and council's corporate goals and objectives
• Responsible for the procurement, commissioning and project management of capital projects, to ensure they are delivered on-time and on-budget, using best practice and industry innovation to deliver efficiencies and ensure quality services are provided to the council and its partners
• Liaison with external agencies, public sector organisations, partners and stakeholders to develop working partnerships, prepare funding bids, attend joint meetings and agree joint contracts and working arrangements

Head of public protection and enforcement

Areas of responsibility:

• Enforcement activities
• HMO inspection
• Empty properties
• Doorstep crime/rogue traders
• Massage parlours/brothels
• Food hygiene and infectious diseases
• Street trading and begging
• Environmental protection
• Commercial waste
• Enforcement
• Animal welfare
• Planning enforcement
• Trading standards
• Environmental health
• Licensing
• Antisocial behaviour
• Community safety operations
• Security
• Civil enforcement officers
• CCTV

Head of revenues, benefits and customer services

Areas of responsibility:

• Administration of Housing Benefit (shared service)
• Administration of Council Tax Reduction scheme (shared service)
• Administration of Discretionary Support scheme
• Administration of Discretionary Housing Payments (shared service)
• Administration of Council Tax Reduction Hardship scheme (shared service)
• Administration of client finance money management service
• Administration of debt advice team
• Administration of council outreach worker team
• Administration of Customer First function
• Administration of Council Tax
• Administration of Business Rates

Head of school finance and funding

Areas of responsibility:

• To act as deputy to the assistant director of children’s services on financial and business-related matters by providing management support to the children’s services department as required
• To provide line management support and guidance to the teams as required
• To provide specialist advice on financial strategy to the children’s services senior management teams
• To lead on the provision of specialist financial advice and support to the Schools Forum
• To align and oversee the strategic direction and improvement programme for childrens service
• To advise on national policy and directives/changes with regard to childrens service
• To lead on the DFE safety valve programme re-aligning the high needs block (HNB) of the dedicated schools grant (DSG)
• To effectively fund the SEND written statement of action related to the Ofsted/CQC area SEND inspection
• To project manage the new capital builds with SEND and alternative provision (AP) reporting to the assistant director

Head of service - Adolescent services

Areas of responsibility:

Strategic lead for Blackpool’s adolescent service which:

• Delivers leaving care services to enable ‘Our Children and Young People’ to achieve their potential and to prepare for independence’
• Aims to prevent children from offending and to help them restore the damage caused to their victims
• Promotes the effective participation in education, training or employment
• Provides, psychosocial, non-clinical support, for young people under 25 at risk of poor sexual health outcomes and young people misusing substances

Head of service - Children's services

Areas of responsibility:

• Assume lead operational responsibility for a delivery arm in children’s services operating in accordance with Blackpool Council policies, procedures and legislative frameworks and guidance
• Take a lead role in developing services within the designated area in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of children, young people and their families
• To work across a range of internal and external partners to ensure there is a systematic approach to practice that operates within a legislative framework, guidance and practice standards relevant to children’s services
• Provide expert opinion, challenge and as part of the children’s management team directly contribute or lead on the development of services within children’s services. In particular lead on or contribute to the social care aspects of getting to good and outstanding.

Head of service – Early help services

Areas of responsibility:

• Lead and deliver a service that provides operational and strategic family based services across the borough
• Manage links through multi-agency approaches to intensive family intervention for vulnerable families across the borough
• Provide a 365 days a year service including evening and weekends to support vulnerable adults and children
• Children's centre’s delivery and family hub approach
• Blackpool young people’s service including youth offending services specialist services for drug and alcohol sexual health and offending prevention and leaving care services

Head of tourism and communications

Areas of responsibility:

• Corporate communications
• VisitBlackpool
• Illuminations
• Beach patrol
• Print services
• Parking services
• Blackpool Business Leaders Group and relationship with private sector
• Advertising services

Business development manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for income generation for VisitBlackpool events and Blackpool Illuminations
• Manager for Council parking services
• Manager for the council asset advertising

Head of work and health programmes

Areas of responsibility:

• Lead advisor to the council on adult employment services policy and practice, contributing to the development of council policy based on practical knowledge and experience of implementation of projects; and a detailed understanding of national policy and best practice in own area of expertise
• Plan, control and lead on a portfolio of complex projects to meet objectives and standards.
• Lead contract negotiator with funding partners and prime contractors, responsible for responding to external funding bid opportunities, developing project concepts and new initiatives and to compete effectively for contract funding.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining quality management systems for the service area, in particular ISO9001 QMS, Matrix and other nationally applicable quality standards
• Responsible for detailing and managing service risks, including business continuity planning, health and safety policies for staff and customers, and ICT security planning and auditing.
• Represent the service at a senior level within the Council, and in multi-agency partnerships and steering groups at regional and national level to ensure the views of the council are understood and case presented fully to stakeholders

ICT senior manager - Projects and customers

Areas of responsibility:

• Responsibility and management of business related ICT domain and an understanding of all the key service flows within ICT, including effective delivery of a customer support service
• To lead the development and continuous improvement of customer support and project delivery functions within ICT
• Accurately measure the performance and responsiveness of customer support and project delivery functions within ICT. Use this data to effectively manage development and refine and improve performance within these areas
• To support and build relationships with senior managers across council services and lead on change and project methods for significant service improvement/optimisation and service delivery
• To provide complex or specialist advice and guidance to the council either individually or through a small team and to manage the teams that deliver projects within the “live” service environments and provide customer support to council services

Inclusion team coordinator

Areas of responsibility

• To have a lead responsibility for ensuring the needs of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are met and local targets in improving outcomes
• To have strategic leadership and management responsibility for the inclusion team
• Provide vision, direction and strategic leadership for the inclusion service, ensuring the provision of effective, efficient and high quality support and advice with regard to the education of children and young people with SEND
• Contribute to strategic developments in line with national and local priorities
• Contribute to the delivery of directorate priorities
• Contribute to the development and delivery of services within SEND
• To promote inclusion and wellbeing and ensure the needs of vulnerable young people are met
• Promote the contribution of the inclusion team to the development of effective services for children and young people, families and communities and work in partnership with other senior managers across the local authority in order to improve outcomes for children and young people
• To promote collaborative working with other agencies
• To develop the inclusion team traded service offer
• To monitor and develop the assessment and inclusion team advice in determining the special educational needs of pupils living in Blackpool, as part of statutory assessment under the 2014 Children and Families Act (and any replacement arrangements) within agreed timescales

Independent reviewing officer

Role 1

Areas of responsibility:

• To develop quality review and care planning services for children and young people (CYP) who are ‘cared for’ by Blackpool Council and subject to child protection processes, ensuring that the ‘voice of the child’ is paramount to the review and planning process and that social work practice that does not meet required standards is robustly challenged
• To quality assure the work undertaken within children’s social care and our partner agencies

Role 2 - Fostering

Areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for reviewing the fostering service to ensure that children are receiving good quality care from foster carers. There are national minimum standards to be met which are explored as part of a yearly review process
• In addition to looking at the quality of the care foster carers provide we explore the service the foster carers receive from the service in terms of support training and supervision
• The process involves seeking the views of the children in the foster home as well as all Professionals involved with the child

Independent reviewing officer team manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Supervision of safeguarding chairs and independent reviewing officers
• Management of child protection conference process
• Management of our children reviews
• Performance management. 
• Audits
• Challenging poor practice and improving outcomes for children

Legal practice manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To play a lead role in the departmental management, budget management and marketing and development of the legal service for Blackpool Council, in particular liaising with external and internal clients about the service provision and developing a sustainable quality business approach for the service overall

Local authority designated officer

Areas of responsibility:

Statutory function to manage and oversee all allegations and safeguarding concerns regarding people working with or volunteering with children in Blackpool, where one of the following 4 criteria’s is met:

• Behaved in a way that has harmed a child, or may have harmed a child
• Possibly committed a criminal offence against or related to a child
• Behaved towards a child or children in a way that indicates they may pose a risk of harm to children
• Behaved or may have behaved in a way that indicates they may not be suitable to work with children

Music adviser

Areas of responsibility:

• To manage Blackpool's music educational hub and, Blackpool Music Service
• To deliver corporate aspirations within children's services
• As musical adviser, support all schools in their music curricular provision and, ensure pupils receive their entitlement
• To annually liaise with local, regional, national and international musicians and partners from all genres of music and, provide inspirational music-making workshops and performances
• To provide new progressional musical aspirations for all pupils using a variety of creative initiatives
• To collate and provide extensive data to the Arts Council and FMS on a regular basis
• To support community music-making
• To manage 30 BMS employees and provide CPD for them, school based specialists and non-specialists
• To oversee the Tiddley Om-Pom-Poms initiative in all our children's centres
• To regularly bid for supportive grants
• To ensure frequent, enjoyable, prestigious, musical events provide a platform to celebrate our children's musical successes

Older adult mental health team manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Line manage all staff employed by Blackpool Council including, senior social work practitioner, qualified social workers, case assessors and support workers, delegating an agreed amount of this to the deputy team manager/senior practitioner
• Prioritise the allocation of work and oversee workload management and performance of team members
• Work to the standards in the professional capabilities framework expected of a social work manager. Ensure the team members also work to the appropriate capabilities framework
• The post holder will advise on statutory responsibilities with a focus on the 2014 Care Act and knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and other associated legislation
• The post holder will be responsible for advising and leading on safeguarding referrals within their team, allocating responsibilities to appropriate team members
• To manage and monitor expenditure from the adult social care budget in relation to staffing budgets, and care commissioned and personal budgets arranged by staff
• The post holder will deal with comments, complaints and complements that are received by the team
• The post holder will ensure that all policies and procedures relevant to the service are available, and that staff work to them, including, health and safety, lone working etc
• Develop good working relationships with other statutory and voluntary/third sector partners, particularly the NHS
• Contribute to service developments at a strategic and operational level, including consultation with service users and carers where appropriate

Operational lead - Care and support

Areas of responsibility:

• Lead manager responsibility for a dedicated service area (care and support)
• Operational and tactical leadership responsibility for multiple services (care and support)
• Responsibility for working within regulatory, accreditation and contractual requirements, maintaining the standards expected by CQC, accreditation awarding bodies and the council
• Responsibility for ensuring staff understand their role by giving clear direction as set by policy and procedure, legislation, national minimum standards, inspection frameworks and practice guidance relevant to the service
• Contribute to achieving divisional business objectives via business planning and analysis of performance activity to enable service response to changes and actively pursue development opportunities that are manageable within existing resources
• Responsibility for compliance, governance and quality assurance systems for specific service areas as directed by head of service
• Responsible for the safe recruitment of staff, volunteers, shared lives carers in line with council policy and regulatory requirements within the care and Support division
• Responsibility for supporting managers in all aspects of health and safety in line with Blackpool Council procedures
• Represent individual service areas and the division when liaising with partner agencies in delivering services that meet the holistic needs of individuals in receipt of services
• Supporting the head of service at a management level and being a member of the lead management team of the care and support division
• Participate in operational and lead management on call rota for the division and wider adult department as required or directed by head of service
• Under the direction of head of service, contributory responsibility for the delivery of high quality services within agreed budget allocation
• Contribute to the management of a devolved budget in line with care and support and the wider councils expectations for accurate accounting and sound money management (payments, receipts, transactions, invoices)
• Escalate to head of service operational delivery risk areas including:
  • Safeguarding
  • Medication
  • Complaints
  • Compliance, governance and quality assurance
  • CQC notifications and enquiries

Principal educational psychologist and special educational needs and disabilities assessment manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Provide vision, direction and strategic leadership for the educational psychology service, ensuring the provision of effective, efficient and high quality support and advice with regard to the educational, behavioural and psychological issues of children and young people
• Contribute to the development and delivery of Blackpool’s SEND Strategy
• Promote the contribution of psychology to the development of effective services for children and young people, families and communities and work in partnership with other senior managers in order to improve outcomes for children and young people

Principal epidemiologist

Areas of responsibility:

• To provide strategic leadership on the public health intelligence and research agenda, with a strong focus on health inequalities.
• To support the director of public health/consultant in public health in formulating the strategic direction, priorities and plans for the directorate in line with outcomes, research, statistics and epidemiology
• Leads in the collection and analysis of data to support the on-going development of specific public health programmes such as:
• Monitoring and evaluation information
• Provide significant input into the process of understanding the health needs of the local population and the identification of health inequalities
• The determination of priorities for action to improve the health of the local population

Principal revenues manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Management of the revenues service in line with council and government policy
• Manage teams responsible for revenues income and recovery
• Provide direction and maximise revenue collection

Professional lead - Social work practice and standards

Areas of responsibility:

• Ensure high standards of social work practice is imbedded across the organisation, providing leadership and practice knowledge to social workers and social care practitioners, the organisation and its partners
• Lead adult social work practice
• Lead adult social care practice for other professionals, working across boundaries and social care workforce
• Lead on effective social work supervision and reflective practice
• Lead the professional development of social workers, ensuring staff recruitment and retention are effective and appropriate for students, social workers and social work managers to attract, develop and retain the workforce
• Lead on practice recognising strengths of individuals and communities, ensuring those requiring support are at the centre of decision-making
• Champion rights of citizens in the context of professional ethics and strategic decision making, using legal and human rights frameworks
• Lead on learnings from best practice sharing across the service and partner agencies
• Safeguarding, ensuring statutory responsibilities are discharged effectively

Programme lead (Headstart)

Areas of responsibility:

• To lead HeadStart, the National Lottery Community Fund's strategic 5 year programme, aimed at building the resilience of young people and therefore reducing the number that go on to develop mental ill health
• To provide strategic direction over the 5 years, driving the HeadStart strategy and the vision of systems change required
• To work alongside senior leaders to invest the 12 million budget in activities that ensure maximum benefit for young people
• To be responsible for successfully implementing and managing the delivery of this town wide approach and leading on the dissemination of research and wider learning to maximise opportunities for development across the wider partnership
• To be an ambassador for the HeadStart programme locally, nationally and internationally

Project manager - Blackpool Museum Project

Areas of responsibility:

• The procurement, contract administration and installation/completion of the museum fit-out for public opening March 2024
• To manage the contracts/quality control of the principal contractor, 3 nominated subcontractors, an artist illustrator and external cost management
• To sign off valuations for the exhibitions designers, principal designer and exhibition content consultant
• Lead exhibition works of the exhibition manager and curatorial and collection manager
• Liaise with the basebuild project manager who deals on outstanding items from that phase and other elements, i.e. signage/wayfinding and retail fit out
• To directly manage the proportion of the budget for the exhibition fit out

Public health business manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Oversee, manage and assure the Public Health department’s business and administrative functions and responsibilities operating within agreed financial limits and corporate governance
• Provide a high level of strategic management support on a council wide basis to the range of public health programmes and strategies
• Develop a contract performance management framework within the department
• Contribute to annual budget setting, identifying savings and budget allocation. Ensure public health grant spend is in accordance with government guidelines
• Collate as required qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and project plans
• Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making
• To take a full and active part in the overall management of the management of the directorate to support the delivery of day to day public health activities and projects
• Facilitate and drive delivery of a range of business initiatives and projects across the team

Public health specialist

Areas of responsibility:

• Leading on the oral health strategy
• Leading on the 0 to 19’s children’s public health including commissioning
• Leading on the healthy weight strategy and developing the work of the local authority declaration on health weight
• Public health lead for the health and wellbeing board
• Health needs assessment

School organisation and admissions manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To ensure that the responsibilities of the children’s services department in relation to the forward planning of the provision of school places and admissions strategy are carried out
• In consultation with the head of service to give leadership and strategic direction to the school organisation and admissions team

Schools intervention advisor (Assessment and moderation)

Areas of responsibility:

• Act as a critical professional friend to the schools, challenging and supporting their leadership in evaluating their school's performance, identifying priorities for improvement and planning effective change
• Contribute to whole-school Improvements in the schools
• Help build the schools' capacity to improve pupils' achievement and to realise other key outcomes for pupils that bear on achievement
• Provide challenge and support for the senior leadership in the schools
• Provide information to governing bodies on their schools' performance and development
• Work with a range of partners in order to deliver challenge and support for schools
• Broker school to school and external support
• Local authority assessment and moderation manager

Senior educational psychologist – Management

Areas of responsibility:

• To support the Principal EP in the daily leadership and management of the educational psychology team, supporting the vision and strategic direction and leading on specific areas of policy and practice
• Also, with the efficient, effective and professional delivery of educational psychology, of core and traded services in Blackpool
• To work collaboratively with SEND and wider children’s services, to support the strategic management of policies practices and provision within the local authority and to promote positive outcomes and inclusion for all vulnerable children and young people
• To undertake direct work with children, young people and their families, schools and other educational settings
• Support planning and work allocation of EPs, trainees and assistant educational psychologists
• Provide regular professional and line management supervision to EPs, assistant and trainee EPs
• Participate in fortnightly moderation panels for statutory assessment
• Represent service and deputize as required by the principal educational psychologist
• Be responsible for HR matters/daily running of the team such as annual leave requests, expenses, IPA, recruitment, team meetings etc

Senior public health practitioner 

Areas of responsibility:

• Commissioning and contract management of drug and alcohol treatment services – community services and oversight of in-patient treatment
• Work with key stakeholders to lead the development of services and multi-agency strategies to address the needs of the Blackpool population
• Managing budgets for drugs and alcohol and public mental health
• Conduct in-depth service reviews based on an analysis of service gaps, deficiencies and health needs
• Ensure opportunities are taken to bid against specific national initiatives by bringing partners together to develop proposals that support the modernisation of Blackpool public health services
• Ensure that all local operational arrangements and systems are based on sound evidence base for improving services to patients and service sustainability through commissioning reviews and needs assessments
• Establish multiagency approaches to care and integrated pathways for those with complex needs

Senior solicitor

Areas of responsibility:

• The senior solicitor provides legal advice and representation to children’s services
• The senior solicitor is the line manager of 3 legal support officers and responsible for their allocation of work, supervision and development
• The senior solicitor deputises in the absence of the team manager in terms of supervision, allocation and support to the team and the client directorate
• The senior solicitor supports the team manager with his role generally
• The senior solicitor has particular responsibility for the tracking of pre-proceedings matters and other specific duties within the team not required of the other lawyers.

Senior special educational needs officer - Management and deputy team manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Manager of statutory assessment and review process of educational health care plans

Service manager - Adolescent service - Youth offending

Areas of responsibility:

• Service Manager leads the development and delivery of the youth justice services and assumes lead operational responsibility in accordance with Blackpool Council policies, procedures, legislative frameworks and guidance
• Works in partnership with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and provides expert advice, guidance and briefing sessions on a range of Youth Justice matters aimed at advancing practice and service development
• Take a lead role in developing services within the Youth Justice area in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice manages risk, safeguards and promotes the welfare of children, young people and their families
• Plan, manage and monitor service budget and commissioning requirements, taking into account service demand and the need to ensure children and young people at risk are safeguarded and protected

Service manager – Adult social care - Business support 

Areas of responsibility:

Service manager of support services for the adult services department. Strategic lead for development of services including:

• Personalised, self-directed care including NHS funded care for adults and children
• Expert in relation to tender and contract requirements - service provision and financial information
• Budget management and payment of all care provision and ad-hoc spend
• Income maximisation through assessment and recovery of client contributions
• Care co-ordination and liaison with external and internal care provision, promoting independence and reducing hospital stays
• Performance management of multi-disciplinary team managers
• Council representative on external and internal strategic groups and partnerships

Service manager – Adult social care - Community social care in health

Areas of Responsibility:

• To be the lead responsible for designated areas of adult social care services
• Take a lead role in developing services within the designated area in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of adults in line with the Care Act 2014
• Provide expert opinion, challenge and as part of the adults management team directly contribute or lead on the development of services within adults social care
• To work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and provide expert advice, guidance and briefing sessions on a range of practice, legal and safeguarding matters aimed at advancing practice and service
• Plan, manage and monitor service budget and commissioning requirements, taking into account service demand and the need to ensure adults assessed as eligible for services are dealt with promptly and professionally, and that those in need and/or at risk are safeguarded and protected
• Contribute to strategic planning and development of the service

Service manager - Capital projects

Areas of responsibility:

• To lead and manage the council’s capital works section, comprising of a multi-disciplinary team of property professionals, responsible for design, cost management and project management of major capital projects
• To lead the design team in the delivery of numerous major projects by undertaking the full range of pre and post contract quantity surveying services including cost consultancy to ensure the effective and timely delivery of best value services that comply with all statutory building and design requirements and council policy
• As a senior manager support the delivery of business plan targets and outcomes for the service, ensuring the service delivers against its targets
• Service manager capital projects will engage and manage external professional consultants, liaise with external funding bodies and external clients to provide a full and extensive capital delivery service

Service manager - Children and families hub

Areas of responsibility:

• Assume lead operational responsibility for designated areas of children’s social care services operating in accordance with Blackpool Council policies, procedures and legislative frameworks and guidance
• Take a lead role in developing services within your designated area in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of children, young people and their families
• Provide expert opinion, challenge and as part of the children’s management team directly contribute or lead on the development of services within children’s social care
• To work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and provide expert advice, guidance and briefing sessions on a range of safeguarding matters aimed at advancing practice and service
• Plan, manage and monitor service budget and commissioning requirements, taking into account service demand and the need to ensure children and young people in need and/or at risk are safeguarded and protected
• Contribute to strategic planning and development of the service

Service manager – Children’s social care

Areas of responsibility:

• The teams are made up of 2 team managers and 10 Social workers
• We work with all children subject to care proceedings subject to an Interim Care Order and work directly with the judiciary and CAFCAS. We are responsible for making appropriate and timely permanence decisions for those children within the 26 week court timescale and within the timescales of the child and young person
• We ensure our children are safe in our care, have quality placements that meet their needs, have the opportunity to stay healthy, have good education and are supported with a plan of permanency
• We constantly review the children and young people who are in our care within care proceedings to ensure that where possible we are working with families and assessing their ability to have the children and young people remain/rehabilitated to their care. In addition we work closely with our colleagues in fostering, adoption and placement searches to look into alternative permanence plans for our children and young people such as Special Guardianship Orders, Supervision Orders to provide support and adoptive plans

Service manager – Early help and support

Areas of responsibility:

• Management of family support teams
• Manage the development of family hubs
• Delivery of national supporting families programme
• Implementation of Blackpool early help strategy

Service manager early years

Areas of responsibility:

• To lead and coordinate the early years service including SEND and portage
• To work collaboratively across the Early Years sector to lead on the provision of advice, guidance, training, support and challenge to EYFS practitioners in all sectors across Blackpool about all matters relating to the EYFS and SEND
• To liaise with professional partners across the local area to ensure children have their SEND needs met, and the local authority meets statutory duties in relation to early years
• To undertake, disseminate and lead on the moderation arrangements for statutory and non-statutory assessments in the EYFS.
• To manage and supervise Blackpool portage service by following the code of practice and registration criteria as laid out by the National Portage Association [NPA]

Service manager - Estates and asset management

Areas of responsibility:

• To lead and manage the council’s property estates and asset management department comprising of a multi-disciplinary team of property professionals, responsible for the day to day management of the council’s operational and investment portfolio
• Responsible for the delivery and management of various property related functions within the department, ensuring that the financial return on the investment is maximised, making commercial decisions on leases, disposals and acquisitions of property holdings and implementing new business processes and procedures to ensure the effective management of the department

Service manager - Fostering-planning for permanence and short breaks

Areas of responsibility:

• Areas of responsibility include three residential children’s homes, the fostering team and the adoption team
• Manage the performance of team managers ensuring required standards are met and that continuous development and improvement is demonstrated and practice that falls below the expected standard is managed
• Provide professional line management support, supervision and direction to staff in accordance with council policy to team managers
• Prepare reports, discussion documents as required relating to my designated areas of responsibility relating to service delivery, development, performance and practice matters
• Offer advice and support to service staff and internal and external stakeholders at all levels in the organisation including elected members and the director of children’s services

Service manager - Learning disability and autism 

Areas of responsibility:

• To be the lead responsible for designated areas of adult social care services.
• Take a lead role in developing services within the designated area in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of adults in line with the Care Act 2014
• Provide expert opinion, challenge and as part of the adults management team directly contribute or lead on the development of services within adults social care
• To work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and provide expert advice, guidance and briefing sessions on a range of practice, legal and safeguarding matters aimed at advancing practice and service
• Plan, manage and monitor service budget and commissioning requirements, taking into account service demand and the need to ensure adults assessed as eligible for services are dealt with promptly and professionally, and that those in need and/or at risk are safeguarded and protected
• Contribute to strategic planning and development of the service

Service manager – Looked after children - Permanence teams

Areas of responsibility:

• The teams are made up of 5 team managers, 5 senior social workers and 21 social workers.
• We ensure our children are safe in our care, have quality placements that meet their needs, have the opportunity to stay healthy, have good education and are supported to transition into adulthood. Our children and young people are supported in their transition into independence ensuring quality accommodation is available that is affordable, manageable and to a good standard
• Supporting our children is also responsible for the undertaking of court proceedings when a child/young person becomes looked after. We are responsible for making appropriate and timely permanence decisions for those children who come into the care of the Local authority. This is to be done with delay and within the timescales of the child and young person
• We constantly review the children and young people who are in our care to ensure that where possible we are working with families and assessing their ability to have the children and young people back in their care. In addition we work closely with our colleagues in fostering, adoption and placement searches to look into alternative permanence plans for our children and young people such as Special Guardianship Orders

Service manager - Mental health

Areas of responsibility:

• To be the lead responsible for designated areas of adult social care services
• Take a lead role in developing services within the designated area in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of adults in line with the Care Act 2014
• Provide expert opinion, challenge and as part of the adults management team directly contribute or lead on the development of services within adults social care
• To work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and provide expert advice, guidance and briefing sessions on a range of practice, legal and safeguarding matters aimed at advancing practice and service
• Plan, manage and monitor service budget and commissioning requirements, taking into account service demand and the need to ensure adults assessed as eligible for services are dealt with promptly and professionally, and that those in need and/or at risk are safeguarded and protected
• Contribute to strategic planning and development of the service

Service manager – Safeguarding, quality and review

Areas of responsibility:

• Assume lead operational responsibility for designated areas of children’s social care services operating in accordance with Blackpool Council policies, procedures and legislative frameworks and guidanc
• Take a lead role in developing services within your designated area in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of children, young people and their families.
• Provide expert opinion, challenge and as part of the children’s management team directly contribute or lead on the development of services within children’s social care
• To work in partnership with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and provide expert advice, guidance and briefing sessions on a range of safeguarding matters aimed at advancing practice and service
• Plan, manage and monitor service budget and commissioning requirements, taking into account service demand and the need to ensure children and young people in need and/or at risk are safeguarded and protected
• Contribute to strategic planning and development of the service

Service manager - Special educational needs

Areas of responsibility:

• Direct line management responsibility of team managers in the following areas:
  • SEN team, SEN admin team, children’s services policy and information officer, supporting children with complex needs team (children’s social care)
• Supporting children’s social care as part of their Ofsted improvement journey and involved in quality assurance, safeguarding and relationships with partner agencies/stakeholders including (but not limited to) police, DfE, Ofsted
• Complaints officer for the whole SEND service, and also facilitate mediation/issues resolution
• Responsible for implementing/reviewing policy and practice across all areas, but particularly in relation to statutory compliance with EHCP processes and children’s social care procedures. Representative involved in all legal planning meetings and providing representation to the courts (when requested) about senior manager narrative for case management
• Responsibility for budgetary approval including external contracts, and agency commissioning. I am also a key stakeholder in revising service delivery and improvements
• Responsible for tracking and monitoring compliance and service improvements as well as ensuring individual team performance by way of regular data reporting
• Provision of service delivery reports for scrutiny at director level, and action plans for service development
• Responsible for undertaking both individual and service level risk assessments.
• Responsibility as being a direct point of contact for the parent carers forum and partner stakeholders to cement improvements in co-production and multiagency working.
• Chair and partake in a number of multiagency strategic panels to explore wider compliance, both internally and externally, commissioning, case management and implementation of pan Lancashire strategies. I also have a role in multi-agency learning reviews where concerns have been raised about social work practice
• Linking with Social Work England to drive forward practice standards and ensure we are compliant as a service with professional standards
• SEND designated social care officer for Blackpool

Service manager - Strengthening and supporting families

Areas of responsibility:

• Provide quality leadership and management whilst ensuring delivery of effective and efficiency in SSF
• Effectively manage the performance of team managers ensuring required standards are met, continuous development and improvement are demonstrated and practice that falls below the expected standard is managed
• Via a highly motivated and focussed team you will robustly review practice within your team ensuring the delivery of a high quality of service to children, young people and families, which is perceived as helpful and is underpinned by the values and principals of Blackpool Families Rock
• Ensure that service delivery is compliant with legislation, government policy initiatives, guidance and practice standards, underpinned by evidence based approaches aimed at improving outcomes for children and families, and keeping children and young people safe
• Ensure agreed service performance targets are met and plans are in place to bring about continuous development and improvement in SSF

Special educational needs officer

Areas of responsibility:

• Undertake education, health and care needs assessments for young people, potentially between 0 to 25 years of age
• Write EHC Plans for these young people once a panel has agreed to issue an EHC plan.
• Attend annual reviews during which progress towards the outcomes written in the EHC plans are measured with a view to amending or ceasing the plan should it be appropriate to do so
• With a lengthy background in the area of SEN I support and advise parents, schools and other professionals
• Submission of requests for the funding element o=of the EHC Plan in order to ensure each young person has the funding to meet the provision specified in the EHC plan

Assistant director community and environmental services - Community and wellbeing

Areas of responsibility:

• Leisure services
• School and community catering service
• Parks development service
• Health, school and community sport
• Stanley Park
• Marton Mere Nature Reserve
• Youth services
• Public protection

Strategy, policy and research manager

Areas of responsibility:

• This role leads on the development and implementation of strategy, research, performance management and partnership work across Blackpool. It includes responsibility for issues which need a response from multiple service areas, primarily the town’s response to the climate emergency, but also other projects requiring joint work between council services, the council’s wholly owned companies, and other organisations in the town
• The postholder must keep up to date with all government policies and advise senior officers, and councillors on what the council needs to do in response. The role oversees the planning of work, making sure it is in line with the council’s vision for the organisation and town, and is responsible for identifying and bidding for external funding, as well as overseeing management of the projects arising

Streetscene engineering manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Manager of engineering services
• Maintenance of the tramway, highway, highway schemes, sea wall and parade area
• Tramway safety officer

Systems development manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Leading the systems and intelligence team
• Contributing to the strategic and operational leadership and management of ICT services
• Management and delivery of specified systems development programmes and large‐scale projects
• Management and delivery of timely and accurate statutory data returns and statistical information for departments and key partners 
• Provision of advice and support to departments in relation to the collection, storage and handling of data

Team leader school and community

Areas of responsibility:

• Leadership in a team in education for work for schools and families
• Advice and guidance to schools
• Support to schools through regular meetings
• Liaison with other agencies and services to support school
• Responsibility to fulfil the statutory duties for the local authority

Team manager - Adolescent services

Areas of responsibility:

• Delivers leaving care services to enable ‘Our Children and Young People’ to achieve their potential and to prepare for independence’
• Promotes the effective participation in education, training or employment
• Provides, psychosocial, non-clinical support, for young people under 25 at risk of poor sexual health outcomes and young people misusing substances.

Team manager - Adult mental health

Areas of responsibility:

• I currently manage the primary, secondary and homeless social care mental health teams and oversee 50 members of staff to include social workers, support workers, carers worker and admin staff. I am also an approved mental health professional, assessing service users under the Mental Health Act
• My responsibilities are to provide professional supervision to staff, carry out assessments under the Mental Health Act, allocation of work to the team, recruitment of new staff and to oversee the day to day management of the team

Team manager - Adult social care team manager 

Areas of responsibility:

• Line manage all staff employed by Blackpool Council including, senior social work practitioner, qualified social workers, case assessors and support workers, delegating an agreed amount of this to the deputy team manager/senior practitioner
• Prioritise the allocation of work and oversee workload management and performance of team members
• Work to the standards in the professional capabilities framework expected of a social work manager. Ensure the team members also work to the appropriate capabilities framework
• The post holder will advise on statutory responsibilities with a focus on the 2014 Care Act and knowledge of the Mental Health Act, Mental Capacity Act and other associated legislation
• The post holder will be responsible for advising and leading on safeguarding referrals within their team, allocating responsibilities to appropriate team members
• To manage and monitor expenditure from the adult social care budget in relation to staffing budgets, and care commissioned and personal budgets arranged by staff
• The post holder will deal with comments, complaints and complements that are received by the team
• The post holder will ensure that all policies and procedures relevant to the service are available, and that staff work to them, including, health and safety, lone working etc
• Develop good working relationships with other statutory and voluntary/third sector partners, particularly the NHS
• Contribute to service developments at a strategic and operational level, including consultation with service users and carers where appropriate.

Team manager - Assessment and support team

Areas of responsibility:

• The assessment and support teams are first responders to concerns of child abuse, neglect or children in need
• The team manager manages a team of social workers and senior social Workers on a duty system
• Where there is suspected child abuse, neglect or a child in need of support, the team manager will consider the information and allocate a social worker
• The team manager will chair multi-agency strategy meetings alongside colleagues from police, health and education, wherein information is shared and a decision reached whether the child is suffering or at risk of suffering significant harm
• The team manager will supervise, guide and support the allocated social worker during child abuse enquiries, child and family assessment and subsequent child protection or child in need plans, overseeing and quality assuring the social worker’s practice. This can also include care proceedings in both public and private law applications to the family courts

Team manager - Request for support hub

Areas of responsibility:

• To manage all initial children’s social care contacts and queries entering the request for support hub (MASH) via telephone or written communication
• Ability to assess risk, analyse, create, implement and review plans to both address risk and promote positive outcomes for children and their families
• To prioritise the most vulnerable and at risk and recommend appropriate advice and actions, escalating to Social Workers for advice as necessary, to ensure all contacts are signposted for action
• Required to work alongside representatives from key partner agencies based in the request for support hub to work together identity and assess risk to children and by sharing information
• Application of thresholds so enquiries within the request for support hub are addressed and referred to the appropriate services effectively
• Management and supervision of social workers, senior social workers and referral information coordinators
• Oversee performance management of the team to ensure best practice

Team manager - Strengthening and supporting families

Areas of responsibility:

• As part of this role I am the line manager for at least 6 social workers plus student social workers. I am responsible for the facilitation of regular staff supervision, the management of sickness and attendance and ensuring that a good level of performance is maintained. This involves the allocation of complex child protection and child in need cases as well as ensuring that plans are appropriate and are proportionate to the risk identified. I am responsible for leading multi-agency child protection investigations in line with statutory guidance and procedure and liaising with senior managers and the legal team in the event that care proceedings may need to be initiated
• As part of my role I am responsible for quality assuring all work completed by the social workers in my team as well completing regularly auditing across the service to ensure that there is a commitment to practice development. I also facilitate training across the service and outside agencies. I am involved in the development of new policy and procedures to improve social work practice and outcomes for children and their families. I also deal with complaints

Team manager - Supporting our children

Areas of responsibility:

• To manage the day to day practice and delivery of services within a defined social work team within children’s services by leading, directing and supporting a team of staff, as directed by the service manager
• To ensure that high quality, effective services are delivered to children and families and resulting in improved outcomes and which are cost effective
• To lead on and oversee the maintenance of high quality practice and standards and drive continuous improvement within your team

• To support and contribute to relevant aspects of divisional, directorate and corporate initiatives and issues, within the council

Team manager – Youth justice services 

Areas of responsibility:

• Assist the HOS with delivery of the youth justice service business plan
• Provision of effective services to the criminal courts and MOJ as required by the Crime and Disorder Act 98/LAPSO 2012 ensuring reports and assessments are completed to inform sentencing
• Responsible for the operational management of the YJS in accordance with YJS national standards , HMIP and council policies/procedures and manage a multi-disciplinary team who specialise in delivering effective intervention to reduce reoffending and harm and divert children away from crime
• Plan and monitor team performance through use of quality assurance processes in scrutiny and development of frontline practices
• Attend multi agency meetings to present on areas of work where required, contribute to safeguarding of children and protect the public from risk of harm and develop effective partnership working with key professional/volunteer agencies
• Ensure the workforce are skilled and take responsibility for their learning and development
• Provision of effective diversion and prevention intervention through multi agency panels

Transport manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To be accountable for the council’s Vehicle Operator Licence (‘O’ Licence), ensuring the council is fulfilling its legal obligation in accordance with the Department for Transport (Senior Traffic Commissioner) statutory legislation
• Responsible for the management of the council’s fleet of vehicles and plant; enabling the delivery of front-line services
• Manage the procurement and maintenance contract of the council fleet, monitor and manage contractors and partners
• Responsibility for the two operating sites at stated on the Operator Licence.
• Oversee the grey fleet compliance

Transport policy manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Coordinating and implementing the council’s priorities and statutory responsibilities in respect of transport policy and strategy, with particular emphasis on the local transport plan
• Assessing the transport implications of strategic development proposals, to support Blackpool’s regeneration with integrated transport solutions
• Working across council services and with external partners and stakeholders in developing and delivering transport policies that will enable Blackpool to improve its economic performance, overcome social deprivation issues and address environmental concerns
• Ensuring accessibility by transport is improved for all groups in the community, with an emphasis on more sustainable transport modes
• Preparing the transport capital programme and coordinating its delivery to ensure that the council meets its performance targets and capital spending is kept within approved limits.
• Liaising with the Department for Transport and Transport for the North on strategic transport matters

• Leading on bids and business cases to secure funding for Blackpool’s transport system

Waste services manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To oversee the councils statutory requirement for the collection and disposal of waste and recycling
• To manage the client relationship functions of any internal/external contractors involved in the collection, processing and treatment of waste and recycling
• To provide the interface between Blackpool Council and Lancashire County Councils Lancashire Waste Partnership (LWP)
• To provide the interface between the council and the co-wholly owned (with LCC) waste operating company (Lancashire Renewables Ltd, LRL)
• To ensure compliance with local and national legislation and regulation in relation to waste management policies, including provision of data, reporting and enforcement
• To ensure relevant policies in relation to waste services are current and robust
• To represent Blackpool Council on various regional and national groups in relation to the development and implementation of policies and legislation
• To develop and Implement a local municipal waste strategy in line with central governments resources and waste strategy and the environment bill
• To oversee the client function for the provision on public conveniences across the town.
• To support the head of coastal and environmental partnerships in the delivering the regional flood strategy, including flood and coastal erosion management, setting up and supporting flood action groups, sustainable drainage solutions, surface water flooding, dune remediation, etc…
• Writing bids for the application of government and Environment Agency grant funding for both waste and flood related projects and schemes
• Procurement of high value vehicles, plant and contracts across various council services

Youth service manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To lead the youth service and support third sector partners to deliver on the objectives outlined within the provision review, focusing on collaboration and partnership working to increase the range and reach of youth provision across Blackpool
• Take a lead role in developing community youth provision with third sector providers in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards, ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of children, young people and their families

Register of interests 

Register of interests

Forenames	Surname	Name of company/supplier/organisation	Detail of interest
Arif	Rajpura	Raj & Co Limited	Director
Arif	Rajpura	Bridgewater Living Limited	Director
Neil	Jack	Blackpool Airport Limited	Director
Neil	Jack	Blackpool Airport Properties Limited	Director
Neil	Jack	Lancashire Management Operations Limited (TRAMSHED)	Director
Neil	Jack	Blackpool Illuminations Limited (Dormant)	Director
Neil	Jack	Blackpool Football Club Community Trust	Director
Antony	Lockley	Blackpool Local Education Partnership	Director
Antony	Lockley	Alpine Glacier Project	Trustee and Named Person
Antony	Lockley	Blackpool and Fylde College	Corporation Board Member and Member of Quality Standards Committee
Alan	Cavill	Claremont First Step Centre	Trustee
Steven	Thompson	Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre Credit Union	Credit Union Treasurer until replacement found during 2022
Steven	Thompson	Lancashire Pension Board	Board member (employer rep)
Steven	Thompson	Trinity Hospice	Trustee
Steven	Thompson	Blackpool Airport Properties Ltd	Director
Steven	Thompson	Blackpool Airport Ltd	Director
Steven	Thompson	Trinity Hospice	Chair of Audit Committee
Steven	Thompson	Sharon Thompson	Wife works in Sundry Debt Team in Resources Directorate
Steven	Thompson	Lancashire Management Operations Ltd (LMOL)	Director
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Transport Services Ltd	Joint Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Coastal Housing Limited	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Housing Company Limited	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Entertainment Company Limited	Joint Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Operating Company	Joint Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Airport Operations Ltd	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Museum Trust	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Jobs, Friends & Houses CiC	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Airport Ltd	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Airport Properties Ltd	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Waste Services Ltd	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Lancashire Management Operations Limited (TRAMSHED)	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Blackpool Illuminations Ltd (Dormant)	Company Secretary
Mark	Towers	Lumen Housing Limited	Secretary
John	Blackledge	Ronnies Wine Bar, Whitegate Drive, Blackpool	owned by nephew

Register of gifts and hospitality

Gifts and hospitality information

First name	Surname	Date of reciept	Name of donor	Brief details of what the gift/hospitality is
Alan	Cavill	21 May 2021	Blackpool FC	Tickets for Football match play off
Alan	Cavill	30 May 2021	Blackpool FC	Tickets to play off final
Alan	Cavill	23 October 2021	Blackpool FC	Hospitality ticket to game at Bloomfield Road
Antony	Lockley	17 September 2021	Babs Murphy NW Lancashire Chamber of Commerce	Ticket to attend the BIBA's hosted at Blackpool Tower.
John	Blackledge	20 October 2021	Local Councils Roads Innovation Group	National Highway Excellence Awards
John	Blackledge	23 October 2021	Visit Blackpool	Visit Blackpool Table at Blackpool FC Match
Karen	Smith	21 May 2021	Blackpool Football Club	BOXHOLDER - Play Off Semi Final Blackpool v Oxford Utd Fri 21st May 2021
Neil	Jack	07 July 2022	Blackpool Pleasure Beach	Two tickets to Hot Ice Opening Night 2022
Steve	Thompson	16 March 2022	Blackpool Football Club	Ticket to Blackpool V Sheffield Game
Steve	Thompson	07 July 2022	Pleasure Beach	Two tickets to Hot Ice Opening Night 2022.
Steve	Thompson	30 March 2022	Technology One	Evening meal and two drinks at Beach House with Chief Operating Officer (over from Brisbane) and Account Manager of Technology One
Steve	Thompson	19 July 2021	Pleasure Beach	Two tickets to Hot Ice Show on the 19 July.
Steve	Thompson	21 May 2021	Blackpool Football Club	Box attendance at Blackpool vs Oxford Utd on the 21 May 2021
Steve	Thompson	30 May 2021	BFC	Tickets to Blackpool Play Off Final at Wembley on Sunday 30 May.