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About the Role
Bring your children’s social care knowledge to lead digital transformation and help shape better systems, processes and services for practitioners, children and families. This is an opportunity for an experienced children’s social worker to take their career into a new direction, developing skills within transformation, technology, data and AI.
Responsibilities
- Lead the project management and delivery of digital transformation initiatives within the Children’s Operations and Programmes Directorate.
- Manage cross-functional projects from inception through to completion, ensuring milestones are achieved, risks are mitigated, and savings targets are successfully delivered.
- Act as a crucial connector, converting real-world understanding of social work into robust digital project requirements.
- Work with frontline practitioners, digital partners, and internal and external stakeholders to understand service challenges, shape and test practical solutions, support implementation, evaluate impact and identify emerging opportunities.
- Co-produce service solutions alongside frontline teams, map interdependencies, and manage project benefits effectively.
- Build consensus among diverse stakeholders during periods of change.
- Understand practice problems, ask good questions, shape requirements, test whether solutions are useful and safe, and help practitioners and technical colleagues work effectively together.
Requirements
- Must have a Children’s Social Worker background coupled with substantial working knowledge of statutory children's social care practice.
- Thorough understanding of contemporary children's policy and legislation.
- Must have contributed to change, service improvement, practice development or project activity.
- Proven experience of successfully leading transformation or service improvement initiatives within a large, complex organisation.
- Demonstrate a genuine interest in how data, technology, and AI can reduce administrative burdens and optimise frontline workflows.
- Strong negotiation and lateral thinking capabilities to manage service risks, guide teams through ambiguity, and build inclusive, high-performing project environments.
- Apply online explaining how you meet the requirements set out in the person specification and job description.
Skills
- Digital transformation
- Project management
- Data analysis
- AI
- Negotiation
- Lateral thinking
- Stakeholder management
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- Experienced
Salary/Compensations
- New hires will start at the minimum of the advertised salary range.
- Employees receive annual salary increases until they reach the top of the pay scale.
- Employees will receive any agreed cost of living pay rises.
Benefits
- Flexible working options
About the Company
- RBKC is investing in our people, our communities and our future.
- Join a well-established, collaborative Bi-borough team operating across both the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster City Council.
- Children's Services recently rated Outstanding by Ofsted for the third consecutive time.
- Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses and unique local places.
- Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach and creating a fairer borough.
- We are a competent and caring Council, taking pride in our work every day, ensuring our services are delivered with care and competence.
- We listen to our residents, act with integrity and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer and fairer for all.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- We are a Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.