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Are you looking for a new opportunity in Local Authority Finance? This could be the one!

We are looking for a qualified, talented, motivated, experienced and enthusiastic accountant to join the Adults & Health Directorate and take responsibility for leading our Adult Care Finance and Performance teams. The post will have a dual reporting line to our Section 151 Officer and Strategic Director of Adults and Health ensuring that our services can operate within a business focused approach.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Local Authority finance professional with the right value base and preferably Adult Social Care experience, to join our senior leadership team and help take our services to the next level.

You will take responsibility for our finance teams and performance monitoring team developing the plans necessary to deliver excellent services to our residents. You will have the opportunity to really influence the direction of the services and support our staff to make the continuous improvements needed to enable our services to flourish.

The successful applicant will play a vital role in supporting the development of our social care and public health services, offering inspiring leadership to our teams and influencing the strategic direction of our services linked to regulatory and business plan requirements. We are on an improvement journey and have brought together a range of services including for example commissioning, finance and performance, which with your expertise, will support the Directorate to operate within budgets and evidence compliance with a range of regulated activities.

You will join a supportive team with a commitment to striving to be the best we can be and be committed to improving the lives of vulnerable people in the borough and the communities in which they live

If you are interested, we would love to hear from you:

For a further discussion please contact either; https://shorturl.at/KqT5H Mark Warren, Strategic Director Adults & Health Mark.Warren@blackburn.gov.uk
Katherine White, Deputy Director Adult Social Care, Katherine.White@blackburn.gov.uk or
Dean Langton, Strategic Director Finance & Resources Dean.Langton@blackburn.gov.uk

To apply please click the Apply Now link below.