Head Of Regulation And Community Resilience

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for the Head Of Regulation And Community Resilience for our client a local government organisation in Bedford.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and managing a comprehensive Environmental Health, Corporate Health and Safety, Trading Standards, Licencing, Registration, Community Safety, Resilience and Flood Risk service.

Ultimately responsible for the ensuring statutory obligations are met and delivering a range of services that are first and foremost legally compliant and fully cognisant of the need to be up to date with the principles around better regulation, regulatory reform and legal precedent.

Contribute to the development of the Corporate Plan and to implement the appropriate strategies through the effective management of staff, resources, performance, projects and risks. To deliver service improvements, efficiency savings and agreed outcomes for particular projects and service delivery/service level agreements.

This is initially a 3 month contract with the possibility to extend after that date. This role is part time.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Provide support to shape the organisation’s strategic plans and policies, as well as to the process of implementing and embedding cultural change and organisational development and support the creation of a common purpose.
• Take collective and strategic/operational responsibility for ensuring that the organisation’s decisions and policies are implemented.
• Support CLT and the organisation in fulfilling its Community leadership role. Champion partnership work with other services and stakeholders as well as providing leadership, support and challenge as part of the organisation’s community leadership and Place role.
• Evaluate, contribute and ensure the delivery of targets as set out in the organisation’s Performance Management Framework, the Corporate Plan and Service Plans. This includes working to support and enhance organisational expertise in performance and contract management.
• Lead or support on cross cutting issues (as required), utilising matrix management to engage talent across the organisation breaking down internal boundaries to deliver a seamless service to customers (internal and external).
• Promote a culture of collaboration by encouraging sharing knowledge and resources across the organisation (one team approach).
• Seek innovative and creative solutions to meeting the organisation’s need to bring about continuous improvement within finite resources. Working collaboratively to own and embed a culture of continuous improvement across teams, ensuring that effective budget, performance and risk management is integrated within and across all services/activities.
• Contribute to Emergency Planning and Business continuity within the organisation which will include undertaking activities and responding to incidents as required.

Personal Requirements:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent and/or a suitable professional qualification related directly to the post. Ideally holding membership of a professional institute relevant to the post.
• Demonstrate a creative a positive attitude towards delivering Regulatory functions in a local authority setting.
• In depth knowledge of statutory requirements, procedures and regulatory requirements relating to service areas within the remit of the post.
• Successful and relevant background of consistent achievement at Management level in a local authority or other large complex organisation.
• Experience of having worked at a senior level in a political environment ,skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross organisational perspective.

Working Hours: 3 days / 9:00am - 17:00pm / 22.2hrs

Pay: £750.00 per day

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.