Birmingham Children's Trust (England)Interim Director of Commissioning & Innovation
Dec. 2017 - Jan. 2019Birmingham, United Kingdom• Member of Trust Board and Executive Directors Group
• Leading part of a complex system and multiple partners who needed influencing to understand their role and responsibility to deliver better outcomes
• Engagement with stakeholder to response to complex problems and delivery solutions
• Creating the Trust Commissioning Strategy, developing plans for a Children’s Partnership to deliver significant improvements in sufficiency
• Understanding the barriers to change and building enablers
• Responsible for range of teams including Commissioning, Placements, Complaints, Performance, Research & Projects and Learning & Development • Building confidence that thinking and doing differently might achieve our goals
• Lead for the system wide transformation including multiple stakeholders for SEND Improvement Board following a challenging Ofsted / CQC Inspection