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 (Interim)

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 caselaw
• 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
• Life events
• Youth services
• Community engagement and Move Together Blackpool

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 
• ICT
• Procurement and exchequer
• Audit and risk services
• Property and asset management services
• Information governance
• Equality and diversity

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

Accountant

Role 1 – Strategic management accountant

Areas of responsibility:

• To oversee the monitoring of services/projects, ensuring effective financial performance monitoring is produced to agreed timetables. Enabling timely action to be taken so that income budgets are achieved and all expenditure is in accordance with the provisions of the corporate guidelines
• Consult and negotiate with directors and budget managers in preparing their budgets and forward financial plans
• To ensure that all actions are taken regarding the year-end final accounts process in accordance with all relevant guidance and statutory requirements, and to liaise with external auditors
• Contribute to the council’s medium-term financial strategy and plan in consultation with service departments
• To develop processes and procedures for the appraisal of potential projects to identify financial risks that will impact on project affordability and clearly identify ongoing cost consequences
• To lead on the appraisal and accounting arrangements for new projects to ensure proper accounting and budgeting arrangements are in place

Role 3 – Corporate finance

Areas of responsibility:

• To lead on the production of the statement of accounts, including producing and implementing targets and objectives to ensure appropriate working papers are produced in accordance with all relevant guidance, statutory requirements, external audit requirements and deadlines
• To be the main point of contact with external auditors as part of the audit of the statement of accounts. Ensuring all audit requests are completed within appropriate timescales and liaising with all stakeholders and external bodies to ensure audit requirements are met
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations, procedures and processes and contribution to their continuous refinement and interpret changes in legislation and codes of practice and advise relevant stakeholders
• Interpret changes in legislation, codes of practice and accounting standards. Apply these to accounting processes and advise relevant stakeholders
• Contribute to the council’s medium-term financial strategy and plan in consultation with service departments
• To ensure an annual budget for services/projects is produced in line with approved deadlines
• To ensure prompt completion and consolidation of all financial/statistical returns for central government

Adult social care legal team manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To manage the adult social care legal team
• To provide legal advice to all social work teams in adult social care as well as guidance to other directorates within the council whose service crosses with adult social care
• To provide legal advice, the drafting of council related business documents, representing the council at court, assistance with changes to policy affecting adult services users.

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

Advisory teacher - Early years

Areas of responsibility:

• To ensure that pupils within the early years with special educational needs and disability are ensured a high quality of education with full access to the early years foundation stage curriculum as appropriate
• To work alongside nursery staff, children, parents and therapists to plan for transition to reception
• To make appropriate use of observation, assessment, monitoring, liaison and recording systems to ensure children’s access to the whole of the early years curriculum
• To identify key areas of need and advise on strategies and individual plans or programmes to accommodate these
• To advise teaching and non-teaching staff on the use and modification of various teaching methods and strategies, that take into account pupils’ strengths and needs, to ensure appropriate access to the EYFS curriculum
• To contribute to the design, monitoring, review and evaluation of education plans and to be able to offer advice and support to setting staff in this activity
• To ensure settings are able to provide an inclusive environment and atmosphere where children are able to interact with their peers
• To work in partnership with parents and carers and acknowledge their particular knowledge and skills
• To contribute to the support advice for education health and care plans
• To work in collaboration with a range of professionals within the LEA and other services eg health
• To prepare and deliver INSET for setting staff

Area 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
• To provide an out of hours service for urgent death referrals

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 valuation

Assistant chief executive - Governance/Monitoring officer

Areas of responsibility:

• Statutory monitoring officer
• Deputy returning officer
• Promotion of corporate governance
• Constitutional advice
• Members code of conduct
• Executive and cabinet member decision making
• Council and committee governance
• Scrutiny services
• School and academy governance
• School appeals
• Electoral services
• Member and civic services (including councillors delegated budgets)
• Company secretariat services

Assistant director of adult services

Areas of responsibility:

Assistant director leading the operational assessment, planning and safeguarding statutory duties of the adult services department pursuant to The Care Act 2014.

The assistant director role incorporates head of service responsibilities for care and support services (internal provider services). 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/Reablement/Palliative care/Urgent and crisis care service
• Primary night care team
• 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)
• Adult social care resilience team

Assistant director of children's services - Education and SEN

Areas of responsibility:

• Early years education
• School improvement for maintained schools
• Provide support and challenge for academies and trusts
• Oversee statutory duties in relation to education and SEN including admissions, safeguarding, education offer
• Special educational needs
• Delivering Blackpool Council’s approach to post 16 Education, training and employment with training
• The related business/financial support functions and projects including education capital, attendance, safeguarding in school settings and virtual school
• To support the director of children’s services in the leadership, strategic direction and effectiveness over a range of complex, diverse areas, with a specific focus on education and skills of children and young people in Blackpool
• Line managing all teams within education and SEN including SEND team, admissions, school improvement, education welfare, virtual school and inclusion

Assistant director of children's services - Social care

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

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

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

Business manager - Blackpool CSAP and Blackpool CYPF partnership board

Areas of responsibility:

• Provide business management support to ensure Blackpool’s multi agency safeguarding arrangements fulfils its statutory responsibilities
• Support the work of the independent scrutineer, statutory partners; Blackpool Council director of service, Integrated Care Board, police and Blackpool’s wider partnership agencies, to deliver on the MASA business plan and provide assurance that children and young people are being effectively safeguarded from child abuse, neglect and contextual safeguarding
• Promote a multi-agency learning culture, via overseeing the co-ordination of multi-agency workforce training, MASA quality assurance framework, MASA Procedures and statutory arrangements for child safeguarding practice reviews. Implement ‘Blackpool Families Rock’ culture, in terms of continuing a commitment to undertaking co-production with children, families and carers.

Business manager - Blackpool SAB and community safety partnership

Areas of responsibility:

• Provide business management support to ensure Blackpool’s Safeguarding Adult Board (SAB) and Blackpool community safety partnership to ensure the boards fulfil their statutory responsibilities
• Support the work of the independent scrutineer, statutory partners; the council’s director of adult services (DAS) and director of community and environmental services, integrated care board, police and Blackpool’s wider partnership agencies, to deliver on the boards’ business plans and provide assurance that vulnerable adults and Blackpool’s local communities are effectively safeguarded and supported by the partnership
• Promote a multi-agency learning culture, via overseeing the co-ordination of multi-agency workforce training, quality assurance framework, procedures and statutory arrangements for safeguarding adult reviews (SARs) and domestic homicide reviews (DHRs). Continue Blackpool’s commitment to undertaking co-production with children, families, adults, carers and communities

Catering services manager

Areas of responsibility:

• The catering services manager is responsible for developing effective partnerships with schools, internal colleagues such as public health, and external organisations to ensure a coordinated approach to school food. This includes increasing the uptake of meals, reducing health inequalities, and delivering shared visions
• The manager must also create an effective branding and marketing plan to raise awareness of the catering service among local residents and partners
• Overseeing the management of school kitchens and community coffee shops across Blackpool, the manager handles menu management, dietary considerations, supplier management, contract management, stock control, and non-compliance issues
• Accountability extends to developing and implementing service standards, ensuring compliance with statutory regulations, corporate policies, and industry guidance
• The role includes developing policies for health and safety, customer service, and safeguarding, dictating supervision ratios, and control mechanisms
• The manager is tasked with developing training programmes, fostering a culture of customer service excellence, managing finances, implementing a performance framework, and motivating staff through communication and leadership
• Additionally, they are responsible for service reviews, redesign projects, and providing training opportunities for new and existing staff, including apprenticeships and educational programmes

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 dsignated 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

Role 2 - Children's public health, health protection

• Health Protection
• Migrant and asylum seeker, GRT and other vulnerable groups health
• Public health workforce
• 0 to 19 commissioned services
• Immunisation programmes
• Infection prevention and disease control
• Sexual health prevention and clinical treatment services
• Blood-borne viruses including HIV and hepatitis
• Sudden unexplained death in children (SUDC) prevention and child death overview panel (CDOP) 

Role 3 - 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
  • Healthy urban planning
  • Housing, homelessness including affordable warmth
  • Housing retrofit and green domestic energy
  • Gambling harm reduction to mine

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

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

Divisional service manager

Areas of responsibility:

• The role of divisional service manager will report to the assistant director/Head of care and support and will have divisional service manager responsibility for regulated/non-regulated social care service/services and operational delivery responsibility for the tactical leadership and management of a group of care and support services
• Deputise for the assistant director as required and especially in regards to matters relating to the care and support division
• As a member of the care and support leadership team, to carry responsibility under the direction of the assistant director and supported by other operational managers, for the continual improvement in performance of the care and support division

Early help locality manager

Areas of responsibility

• To lead, coordinate and quality assure the delivery within family hubs and meet all expectations.
• To ensure that high quality, effective services are delivered to children, families and residents in Blackpool resulting in improved outcomes
• To work in partnership with our wider partners across all localities in Blackpool to ensure that we offer a one stop shop of services for all our families with children aged between 0 to 19 (25 with SEND)
• To lead and manage on our evidence-based programmes
• Being data driven and contributing to the MI returns

Early help manager

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 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 to 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

Elective home education officer

Areas of responsibility:

• To monitor and scrutinise all EHE referrals
• To work closely with school admissions and pupil welfare around the education and safeguarding of pupils on EHE
• To provide educational advice and support in relation to EHE, admission processes and procedures
• To ensure all children’s needs are identified and met through parents providing appropriate educational provision
• Assess and analyse education provided by parents
• To work closely with legal services if appropriate education is not evident, escalating to school attendance orders
• To work closely with CSC ensuring the safeguarding of all children
• To refer children in to appropriate services including educational and social care when appropriate
• To liaise with outside agencies / attend meetings as and when required regarding EHE

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

Employee relations team manager

Areas of responsibility

• The role of the employee relations team manager is to lead, develop and drive the performance of the employee relations team in order to deliver an excellent and proactive service across the council, supporting internal and external customers whilst also managing and mitigating risk
• Contributing to the strategic direction of the HR function, monitoring and directing workload and quality of output, to ensure casework service delivery is based on legislative and best practice principles, which enables consistency and quality in service delivery
• The role also includes leading or contributing to specific projects which drive performance or meet statutory and legislative requirements. Delivering expert advice on national initiatives and changes in employment law and ensuring that the employees and managers across the council and our external customers are able to meet the expectation of safeguarding practice through consistent application of relevant practice, policies and procedures to ensure the safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults

Engineering services manager

Areas of Responsibility:

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

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

Event manager

Areas of responsibility

• To deliver, manage and develop VisitBlackpool’s major events programme, specifically designed to attract large volumes of visitors and maximise Blackpool’s reputation as a major events destination in the UK. Includes the production of event safety management plans, counter terrorism plans and risk assessments
• Advise the general public on event safety legislation and guidance
• Ensuring legal compliance and negotiating legal contracts in relation to event safety legislation and guidance under VisitBlackpool’s jurisdiction
• Project managing various teams (using internal and external resource) to facilitate the delivery of this annual events programme
• Representing Blackpool Council at the safety advisory group and other relevant event related event safety groups
• Develop new events and festivals in conjunction with resort partners and external companies
• Manage the Tower Festival Headland events space and Promenade for delivery of internal and external events

Exchequer services manager

Areas of responsibility:

• Manages the exchequer services team, consisting of accounts payable, accounts receivable, cashiers, 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

Full stack software development leader

Areas of responsibility:

• To establish an agile software development framework and Dev-Ops culture to enable rapid application development and deployment, making best use of platforms APIs and automation
• To lead on the development of Azure software developments and integration, enabling the council to leverage the Cloud, its platforms and on-premise systems including hybrid where appropriate

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 (including the Programme Management Office), Planning (Including Strategic Planning, Development Management and Planning Enforcement), 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
• To provide an out of hours service for urgent death referrals

HDRC programme director

Areas of responsibility:

• Programme director for the HDRC Blackpool Researching Together programme. This 5 year funded healthinequalities research project is a partnership between Blackpool Council, Lancaster University, the local community, the voluntary sector and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.

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 Active Blackpool, catering and integrated transport services

Areas of responsibility:

• Active Blackpool  - management of the built estate and commissioned/targeted products and services
• Blackpool catering - provision of school meals including free school breakfasts, event catering and the Chef’s Academy
• Integrated transport - provision of SEND transport, transport for adult social care services and Rideability

Head of adult social care - Community and health linked services

Areas of responsibility:

• To be responsible for 3 adult community teams, the hospital discharge support team, and ASC staff based within, neighbourhood teams, ARC, transfer of care hub, hospice, continuing health care and the rapid response team
• To provide senior management leadership, direction and support to service managers and operational managers and staff as required

Head of adult social care - Practice development, safeguarding assurance and PSW

Areas of responsibility

• To provide senior management leadership, direction and support to the service managers/team managers in adult services for adult social care community/hospital, mental health, learning disabilities, autism, principal social worker (practice development, safeguarding assurance, DoLS team and projects) in line with legislation, guidance and practice standards ensuring practice safeguards and promotes the welfare of adults
• In the capacity of senior manger and/or principal social worker, to act as professional advisor to the statutory director of adult social services (DASS) and chief executive, and advise and guide with cabinet and elected members
• Provide expert opinion, challenge and as part of the adult’s senior management team directly contributing and/or leading on the development of services within adult services
• To work alongside managers and frontline staff to drive improvement in the adult social care department using feedback and data about performance to inform this
• To lead and/or contribute to the social care aspects of the Care Quality Commission - Local Authority Assurance Framework (CQC) and continual improvement
• To provide line management to practice development leads across the adult social care department
• To manage the DoLS/LPS team and the project officer lead

Head of adult social care (MH, LD, autism)

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

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 Blackpool Learning Rooms

Areas of responsibility:

• I manage the Blackpool Learning Rooms (BLR) previously known as adult community and family learning service (ACFL). We sit within the regeneration department of the council and co-locate with Positive Steps Employment Service. BLR is funded by the ESFA to create a curriculum that is fit for purpose for residents. This includes community and classroom learning
• I manage the contract and provision to ensure that all qualitative and quantitative procedures are met whilst growing the number of learners accessing the service and achieving qualifications
• I work with internal and external organisations to ensure the provision is accessible to all areas of Blackpool. I apply for further funding from other awarding bodies to expand our reach and levels of residents that we can work with
• I manager a variety of specialist further education managers to ensure contract and OFSTED compliance

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 business growth

Areas of responsibility:

• To lead the development of a business growth strategy for Blackpool, providing targeted high quality advice and support for growth ambitious businesses
• To collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, business support providers and employers to shape provision according to both business needs and growth potential. Investment needs will vary from leadership and skills, expanding markets, product innovation, digital and emerging technologies and transition to net zero carbon
• Responsible for the council’s business growth team, business hubs and associated budgets for business growth provision

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. This partnership embeds a collective approach to delivery through partnership
• Providing 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 department management team working alongside the director in the overall management of the department
• To represent and deputise for the director and the council in local, regional and national arena
• To be responsible and accountable for the management, development and delivery of strategic and statutory duties in respect of flood risk management including developing and reviewing the flood risk management strategy and business plan, consenting and enforcing policies, coast protection and surface water management
• To lead on innovation in all corporate water management areas including sustainable flood risk applications, nature-based solutions
• To lead on innovations and improvements on the street lighting and traffic signals PFi contract
• To embed best practice in relation to contract management and project management in the department
• 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 multi million pound investment in coast protection and surface water flood risk capital projects
• Delivery of Lancashire and Blackpool Flood Risk Management Strategy and Review
• Strategic management and monitoring of the council's street lighting and traffic signals private finance initiative
• Management of partnership officer for Turning Tides North West partnership
• Lead on the council's ocean recovery action plan
• Lead and manage parks and green open spaces
• Lead on delivery of the Green Blue Infrastructure Strategy
• Provide leadership and direction to staff and embed the council values
• To be accountable for and promoting a performance management culture underpinned by the principles of best practice and continuous improvement

Head of corporate delivery, performance and commissioning

Areas of responsibility:

• Responsible for the strategic and operational delivery of commissioning for children and adult social care
• Work across departments and the corporate delivery unit to deliver key reviews, improvement and transformation projects across the council
• Contribute to the strategic and operational leadership and management of the division/department
• 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 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 and 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:

• Economic development - business support, training and managed workspace provision for new and existing businesses to grow and create jobs.  A work and health team delivers targeted employment programmes locally, and across the sub region, including The Platform youth employment centre. Blackpool Learning Rooms deliver a wide range of basic skills for residents aged 19+, focussing on lifelong learning, job readiness and career progression. The post contributes to corporate initiatives including the council’s business loans fund
• Cultural development includes a diverse library service offer via a network of eight community libraries and the nationally significant Grundy Art Gallery.  Working in partnership to deliver a new Blackpool cultural strategy. Oversight of the council's extensive heritage collections, now managed by the Showtown History Centre.

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 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 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
• Responsible for Houndshill Shopping Centre
• Responsible for Abingdon Street Market
• Corporate asset disposal strategy
• Compulsory purchase orders
• Business loans fund property advisory

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 libraries

Areas of responsibility:

• The head of libraries is responsible for the delivery of a statutory library service from 8 community sites. This includes the full responsibility for the health and safety and wellbeing of approximately 50 staff and all of the service customers and visitors
• The service had 324,000 visits by the public in 2023/24 and it is the role of the head of libraries to ensure they receive excellent customer service, access to physical and digital resources and safe and welcoming spaces to visit and attend sessions, events and activities
• It is also the responsibility of the head of libraries to ensure that financial budgets are spent efficiently and effectively and the customers receive value for money

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 - Strategy and transport policy

Areas of responsibility

• Responsible for the overall management of planning strategy and transport policy within the growing places division, as well as effective delivery and management of statutory processes
• 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
• Corporate social value
• Directorate performance, improvement and development
• Energy and sustainability management
• Exchequer services including transactional services and payroll and pension 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 has responsibility for leading on external fund sourcing, bid development and managing high value funded projects 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, regeneration or commercial 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
• The role provides lead responsibility for the council programme monitoring office (PMO) which supports the council’s accountable body function for varying regeneration funds such as Town Deal, Shared Prosperity and Levelling Up Fund. Assurance and contract management responsibility is required alongside partnership working with key government bodies including MHCLG. Extensive collaborative activity with other Lancashire authorities is required.

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 council's 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 (shared service)
• Administration of business rates (shared service)

Head of service - Adolescent services

Areas of responsibility:

Local authority strategic lead responsible for the adolescent service including:

• Youth justice team - providing a multi-agency partnership preventing reoffending and supporting children (aged 10 to 18) involved with the justice system, including court orders, cautions, and victim support
• Family worker team - Dual role in providing holistic support for homeless children (aged 16 to 17), ensuring their needs are assessed and met through coordinated efforts between children’s services and housing. In addition the service promote participation in education, training and employment through statutory destination tracking
• Drug, alcohol and sexual health support for young people (up to aged 25) across the continuum of need
• Leaving care team - providing corporate parenting support for Our Young People (aged 15 to 25)
• Youth adviser team - leading youth voice in systems redesign. Engaging partners and young people to influence the development of the education, employment and skills system via a lived experienced lens

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:

• To lead and champion support for children, young people and their families at the earliest opportunity preventing where possible the needs for high level or more specialised support or services
• Lead on the implementation Blackpool’s early help strategy and support for children and families from multi-agency approaches to intensive family support for families across the borough
• Lead the development and delivery of family hub and Start for Life programme and the supporting families programme
• Lead the delivery of targeted support services such family time and family group conferencing

Head of service - Safeguarding children and strategic partnership boards

Areas of responsibility:

• Assume lead operational responsibility for a delivery arm in children’s services operating in accordance withBlackpool 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 lead the strategic boards partnership business unit and work across a range of internal and external strategic partners to ensure there is a systematic approach to practice that operates within a legislative framework, guidance and practice standards relevant to Blackpool’s multi agency safeguafing arrangements (MASA) Safeguarding Adult Board (BSAB) and Community Safety Partnership board (BSAFE).
• 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 transformation and assurance

Areas of responsibility:

• As the head of transformation and principal social worker I lead on the training and development of the children’s social care workforce
• I work closely with heads of service, service managers and team managers in children’s services in order to embed good practice, and service development ensuring there is always a focus on improving outcomes for children and families
• I have lead the delivery and implementation of multi-disciplinary teams within children’s social care, utilising the family aafeguarding model, ensuring that key specialist such as mental health workers, domestic abuse workers, recovery workers, social workers, family workers are co-located and offer a holistic plan of support to children and families at a time when they need it
• I am responsible for planning and delivery of changes to service delivery within agreed timescales and budgets, ensuring that children’s services plans are aligned and integrated

Head of virtual school

Areas of responsibility:

• To provide leadership on the delivery of the statutory duty placed on the local authority to improve educational outcomes of our children.
• To manage and implement the council’s strategy and corporate parenting responsibility for the education of our children. Ensure our children have equal access to educational, training and broader employment opportunities beyond schools
• To provide advice on policy, planning and provision for the needs of our children and ensure that their educational attainment is raised and that services are responsive to and informed by the voice and needs of our children
• To lead and manage the virtual school team who prioritises the needs of our children

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 lead SEND

Areas of responsibility:

• To manage a team of specialists who support schools to enable them to better support children and young people and their families with special educational needs and disabilities

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

Internal audit manager

Areas of responsibility

• Oversee and manage delivery of the internal audit plan
• Day to day management of the internal audit team
• Deliver a set of strategic internal audit assignments and provide audit and risk advice as required

Lead commissioner - Adult and children's services

Areas of responsibility

• Lead commissioner for all statutory and complementary preventative services supporting children, family and adults with eligible needs including SEND
• To lead on identified programmes of service reviews, contract and framework development needs assessments and audits to achieve high quality, evidence based services commensurate with principles of value for money for service users, which meets need and underpins the commissioning process
• To lead and directly manage a team of divisional commissioners, market shaping and development officers, quality assurance and mome finding functions across adult and children’s social care, education and SEND
• To oversee on a daily basis the development, commissioning and contract management of the commissioning and contracting team across adult and childrens services and undertake lead management responsibility for identified programme of services on behalf of Blackpool Council and the integrated health and care system at place

Legal practice and litigation team manager

Areas of responsibility:

• To play a lead role in the budget management and marketing and development of the legal services team for Blackpool Council, in particular liaising with external clients about the service provision and developing a sustainable quality business approach for the service overall
• To manage a team of litigation lawyers and manage/monitor tactical legal advice to officers, elected members and client departments in respect of the local authorities statutory obligations under legislation, case law and policy, in the area of corporate litigation, including judicial review, prosecutions, personal injury, civil proceedings, disrepair and debt recovery

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

Principal building control surveyor

Areas of responsibility

• To undertake technical assessments/activities according to competency level and make decisions on those assessments, using skills that would have been gained through qualifications and practical experience, to effectively deliver the building control function throughout the council’s jurisdiction and as part of any partnering or similar scheme, ensuring buildings comply with the relevant regulatory standards in terms of fire/life safety, health and safety, sustainability, energy conservation, accessibility and design

Principal development manager

Areas of responsibility:

To support in the delivery of the growth and prosperity programme. Key activities will include:

• To secure new commercial, leisure and residential investment opportunities, primarily within Blackpool, and also outside the borough
• Support Inward investment and commercial development enquiries including responsibility for proactively promoting investment opportunities to the developer/investor market
• To support the delivery of key regeneration projects including Central Business District, Blackpool Central, Blackpool Town Centre and Enterprise Zones

Principal educational psychologist 

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 director - Move Together Blackpool

Areas of responsibility

• To provide long term strategic leadership to the Sport England place based pilot team, the wider council, elected members and system partners
• To advise senior leaders in education, the local authority, health, police and voluntary, community and faith aocial enterprise (VCFSE) in developing and embedding strategies focused around active lives and tackling inequalities for their organisations
• To support these organisations to provide practical support to implement these strategies and policies through the provision of a Blackpool wide community collaborative systems leadership and community of learning approach
• To lead on the long term strategic vision of embedding active lives through co-production and systems leadership across all sectors in Blackpool and beyond
• To lead and develop strategies to ensure community members inform and influence decision-making across Blackpool around active lives, sharing this good practice on a regional and national level

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

Research and development manager - HDRC project

Areas of responsibility

• To provide leadership and accountability for the safe, effective and efficient operational delivery of services within HDRC related research
• To develop systems to ensure research compliance of HDRC wide research activity including research conducted where the council acts as sponsor
• To manage and support the delivery performance standards for the HDRC, including administration of performance management and monitoring, ensuring the development of systems and processes to ensure the achievement of key national and financial targets
• Manage and lead the administrative/operational team responsible for research study set up
• To develop robust and sustainable business cases working with finance and performance business partners
• Represent the HDRC at meetings

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 commercial property lawyer

Areas of responsibility:

• To act as a senior commercial property lawyer on behalf of the council within the legal services department and provide strategic and tactical legal advice to officers, elected members and client departments in respect of property and regeneration

Senior practice development leader

Areas of responsibility:

• The senior practice development leader manages a team of practice development leaders
• The overall aim is to improve the quality of social work practice which improves outcomes for children and families in Blackpool
• The senior practice development leader oversees the Social Work Academy which involves students, apprentices, NQSW’s undertaking the ASYE programme, developing practice in Year 2 of social work, practice educators and supporting social workers to senior social worker level
• The senior practice development Leader supports children’s services with the recruitment and retention of social workers
• The senior practice development leader oversees the training plan and develops training in line with the priorities identified through the ongoing audit process
• The senior practice development leader is the link officer for research in practice and attends regional meetings linked with the ASYE programme

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

Role 1

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

Role 2

Areas of responsibility:

• To be the council’s ‘expert’ policy and strategy lead for all licensing matters, advising officers, elected members and clients involving statute, case law and policy, in the area of licensing law and other criminal litigation, prosecutions and ad-hoc court applications
• To keep up to date with best practice, trends, changes and developments in the team areas including government initiatives/legislation and advise the council of their implications
• To ensure governance and legislative requirements are complied with

Service manager - Adult social care

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 the3 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 – Adult services - 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 – Blackpool family safeguarding team

Areas of Responsibility:

• Provide quality leadership and management whilst ensuring delivery of effective and efficiency in BFS
• 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 BFS.

Service manager - Capital projects

Role 1

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

Role 2

Areas of Responsibility:

• To lead and manage the council’s capital works section and property services 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 – 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 and valuation 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 the fostering team, connected care, SGO support 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 – 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 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 - Special educational needs and disabilities

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 – Supporting our children

Areas of responsibility:

• The teams are made up of 5 team managers, 24 Social workers and 6 family support workers
• We ensure our children are safe in our care, have homes 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
• We are the corporate parents for the children who are looked after by Blackpool Council taking responsibility to ensure that our children have the best opportunities now and in the future
• 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 home finding to look into alternative permanence plans for our children and young people such as Special Guardianship Orders

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

Specialist public health nurse - Health protection

Areas of responsibility:

• Provide expert advice on Public Health Health Protection issues including Infection control/communicable disease/non- communicable disease/environmental hazards
• Provide oversight on screening and immunisation programmes
• Support the council’s emergency planning role
• Provide expert clinical advice and support to the council departments/partner organisations/ICB/UKHSA
• Lead on Incident and outbreak management within closed settings/adult social care/schools – provide expert advice
• Provide clinical input and oversight to: NHS Health Check Programme/asylum population
• Lead for public health duty desk /oversight Monday to Friday 9.00am to  5.00pm , managing incidents/outbreaks/ general enquiries

Statutory assessment and review lead

Areas of responsibility:

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

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

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 – Adoption

Areas of responsibility:

• The job role includes being responsible for managing staff who are tracking and progressing care plans of adoption for children
• The role includes ensuring that children’s needs are being met while they are in our care and their permanence is secure in a timely manner
• The role includes supervision and monitoring and support of social workers and family worker and being responsible for the parallel planning for children who may have a care plan of adoption

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

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 - Awaken wider exploitation team

Areas of responsibility:

• Team manager of a child exploitation team
• Managing day to day duties
• Oversight of 11 staff members/supervision responsibilities
• Managing risk to young people/disruption of offenders
• Chairing daily exploitation meetings
• Managing an out of hours outreach service

Team manager - Blackpool family safeguarding team

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 - Children with complex needs

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 - Families together intervention team

Areas of responsibility

• The team manager will ensure that the service is effective and delivers positive outcomes for children and families
• To manage the day to day practice and delivery of services by leading, directing and supporting a team of staff, as directed by the service manager
• To lead on and oversee the maintenance of high quality practice and standards to drive continuous improvement within the team
• To support and contribute to relevant aspects of divisional, directorate and corporate initiatives and issues within the council

Team manager - Fostering support team

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 foster carers and children, resulting in improved outcomes, which are cost effective
• To lead on and oversee the maintenance of high quality practice and standards and drive continuous improvement within the fostering support team
• To provide a high level of support to our fostering families which enables stability of our children and young people and ability to retain fostering households
• To support and contribute to relevant aspects of divisional, directorate and corporate initiatives and issues, within the council

Team manager - LD and autism

Areas of responsibility

• Manager of the learning disability team and autism team
• Management of all social care staff in the teams- social workers, case assessors and support workers
• Providing supervision and support to the team
• Overseeing new referrals and allocation of work to the team members
• Acting as safeguarding lead for complex cases
• Supporting the preparing for adulthood process as young people move from children’s services to adult social care services

Team manager - Older adult mental health

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 - Planning for permanence

Areas of responsibility

• Manage team of social workers and support workers completing assessments of family/friends during care proceedings and provide support to families with children who are subject to Special Guardianship Orders (SGOs)
• Responsibilities – supervision, IPA and HR actions for all team members, chair team meetings and practice discussions, quality assurance court statements and reports, ensure duty cover, review SGO support plans and packages of support, work closely with legal and other teams within children’s services

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 - 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

Workforce development/Inspection readiness lead

Areas of responsibility

• To develop and deliver an effective leadership academy for managers within children’s social care in order to support and equip them to offer their staff the very best support and challenge to their teams as part of Blackpool Children’s social care’s journey to ‘outstanding’
• To work with children’s social care staff, leaders, managers, principal social worker (PSW) in relation to all aspects of inspection preparation and readiness, playing a significant role in reviewing and analysing data in order to contribute to future learning and service delivery
• To work alongside the head of transformation/PSW, in order to develop and embed an effective quality assurance framework for children’s service which incorporates system reviews alongside feedback and updates from families which will contribute to the drive to improve practice and offer an ‘outstanding’ service to the families with whom services work

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 

Details of senior employees interests

Forenames	Surname	Name of company/supplier/organisation	Detail of interest
Steven	Thompson	Trinity Hospice	Trustee
Steven	Thompson	Trinity Hospice	Chair of audit comittee ( 1 September 2024)
Steven	Thompson	Sharon Thompson	Wife works in sundry debt team in resources directorate
Neil	Jack	Blackpool Football Club Community Trust	Trustee
Nel	Jack	Visible Inclusive Accessibility CIC	Director
Arif	Rajpura	Raj & Co Limited	Director
Arif	Rajpura	Bridgewater Living Limited	Director
Arif	Rajpura	Bridgewater Group Holdings Limited	Director
Lorraine	Hurst	Blackpool Transport Services Ltd	Company secretary
Lorraine	Hurst	Blackpool Waste Services Ltd	Company secretary
Lorraine	Hurst	Blackpool Operating Company Ltd	Company secretary
Alan	Cavill	Claremont First Step Centre	Trustee
Alan	Cavill	Enforcement Conduct Board	Non executive 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
Antony	Lockley	Edge Hill University	Independent governor

Register of gifts and hospitality

Details of hospitality received

First name	Surname	Gift or hospitality	Date of receipt	Name of donor	Brief details of what the gift/hospitality is
Steve	Thompson	Hospitality	10 July 2024	TechnologyOne	2 consecutive days' delegate passes for national CIPFA PF Live conference in Manchester sponsored by TechnologyOne and overnight accommodation
Karen	Smith	Hospitality	7 July 2024	Spencer Philips	Lytham Festival VIP AAA Pass
Antony	Lockley	Hospitality	7 July 2024	Fylde Council	Lytham Festival VIP AAA Pass