News Summary of Collaboration and Shared Services from 15th June 2016

There are more collaborative working jobs than news this week, so it seemed a good idea to lead on the jobs. SSA highlighted over 300 collaborative working jobs in 2015 and will continue to help you during 2016 too.

In selecting the vacancies to suggest to you, I look for jobs that:

·         clearly demand senior collaborative transformation, or shared service, leadership skills and where CTArc™ or SSA™ recognition will be very attractive to a potential employer

·         are middle management roles within collaboration or shared service organisations, so CTPrac™ and SS(PRAC)™ alumni should have a better chance than normal, of their CV being put into the interview pile

·         have interim opportunities in collaborative working that might build a bridge for our practitioners and architects, between leaving one employer and finding a new one

If you are looking for something that matches the silo work you are doing now, then you are looking in the wrong place. The market is not yet mature enough to see collaborative working as a unique skill so sometimes you will have to dig through the job spec until you come to the reference to partnership working, shared services or devolution projects. Have a look at some of these…

·         Assistant Manager - Public Sector Consulting, London

·         Communications Managers, Manchester (£38,405 - £42,053)

·         Greater Brighton Economic Board – Policy & Projects Manager, Brighton & Hove (£37,858 - £40,619)

·         European VAT Compliance Specialist

·         Collaboration Development Manager, Warrington

·         Chief Officer - Health and Social Care Partnership, Kirkintilloch (£89,686 - £93,269)

·         Assistant Director Adult Social Care Transformation - 2 Year Secondment, Greater Manchester (£72,182 - £78,464)

·         HR Shared Service Team Lead, London (£40,000 - £50,000)

·         Senior Workforce Information Officer, Charnwood Court, Nantgarw (£26,302 - £35,225)

 

Here is the news…

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Devolution

Devolution: The local English revolution

England’s path to devolution has been a slow one but the momentum is building, with the latest round of devolution deals announced in the budget meaning that there are plans in place across a large part of the country. Read more >>>

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Local Government

Shared finance system to save councils millions

Two London authorities have agreed to share a finance system in a move projected to save £6.8m. Richmond and Wandsworth councils have signed a six-year contract to jointly appoint Capita Local Government to provide a new joint finance system and a range of transactional services. Read more >>>

Shared services the new normal in local government, says LGA

Shared services are so embedded across local authorities that they have now become standard practice, according to an assessment of their use. Read more >>>

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Health & Social Care

United effort to improve health and social care in region

THE chief officer of the North Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has outlined plans to develop a "much stronger sense" of North Lincolnshire as a place for health and social care. Read more >>>

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