Early Intervention & Prevention Development Manager

Prevention Delivery Manager (3703)

Permanent

Grade 6 - £54,495- £64,811

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Birmingham City Council is driving an ambitious shift towards early intervention and prevention, ensuring residents receive the right support at the right time - reducing demand, improving outcomes and delivering value for our diverse communities.

We are now seeking an Early Intervention & Prevention Development Manager to play a critical leadership role in turning this vision into reality. We are now seeking an Early Intervention & Prevention Development Manager to play a critical leadership role in turning this vision into reality. This is a high‑impact opportunity for a strategic, data‑driven and values‑led leader to shape transformation at pace across a complex public service organisation

You Will

• Drive a proactive, preventative culture, embedding early intervention principles across services
• Lead strategic service reviews, transformation projects and new delivery models

Design and implement outcome and performance frameworks, ensuring benefits realisation is tracked and delivered

Use data, insight and evidence to improve resident experience, target resources effectively and support informed decision‑making

Embed co‑production, equality and citizen voice into service design

Develop change capability across the service, supporting senior leaders and teams to work differently

What You’ll Bring

You will be an experienced and credible transformation leader who can operate confidently at senior level in a complex organisation.

You Will Have

• A strong understanding of the statutory, regulatory and political context of local government
• Proven experience leading significant transformation and change programmes
• A successful track record of designing and managing outcome‑focused performance frameworks
  
  

Please upload an up-to-date CV and Supporting Statement via the attachments part of your application. The Supporting Statement should outline how you meet the criteria for the role through your personal qualities, skills and experience and include your motivation for applying to the post. Note the Personal Statement should be no more than 1500 words. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV and Personal Statement attached

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the communities we serve. Our data tells us that for this level of role, ethnic minorities are underrepresented and therefore we will use positive action to support us to achieve diverse shortlists. This may mean that recruitment times are a little longer, but we think this is worth it to achieve our aim.

Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people.

We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.

For any informal enquires please contact: Resourcing@birmingham.gov.uk

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be undertaken.

Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements, before any employment offer can be confirmed.

Birmingham City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our citizens and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. You can view our Corporate Safeguarding Policy | Birmingham City Council here.