Business Performance Manager LGR

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Job Description

Business Performance Manager (LGR) Adult's and/or Children's Social Care

£51,536 - £54,595

24 Months Fixed Term Contract

Nottingham - 2 to 3 days per week in office (Hybrid)

Preparing for transformation. Supporting critical services. Making a real difference.

We're looking for one experienced strategic leader to join us as Business Performance Manager (LGR), playing a pivotal role in preparing Adults' and/ or Children's Social Care for Local Government Reorganisation (LGR).

This is a high-profile role, working closely with senior leaders to ensure statutory services are robust, well-governed and fully prepared for significant organisational change.

About the Role

You will act as the single coordination point for all LGR activity across Adults' and Children's Social Care. You'll provide grip on performance, drive transformation activity and ensure strong governance, communication and readiness across complex, highly regulated services.

This role is central to assuring continuity, quality and improvement while new organisational arrangements are developed.

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Directorate business strategy and performance management
• Policy development, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Governance, forward planning and senior decision-making support
• Service planning, risk management and LGR readiness assessment
• Partnership working across health, safeguarding, education and system partners
• Internal and external communications and engagement planning
• Emergency planning, business continuity and assurance
• Leading key programmes and projects aligned to LGR workstreams

You will also line-manage the Performance and Quality Manager, ensuring strong oversight of quality, performance and improvement activity across statutory services.

About You

We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:

Senior leadership experience in a complex organisation
Strong understanding of Adults' and Children's Social Care or other statutory services
Proven ability to drive transformation, service improvement and change at pace
Strong political awareness and confidence working with senior officers and elected members
Experience shaping and delivering strategic vision, backed by strong analytical skills
A clear commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Experience of governance, policy development, programme leadership and performance frameworks
The ability to influence, collaborate and work across services to deliver shared outcomes

Why Join Us?

Play a central role in one of the most significant transformations in local government
Work closely with senior leaders and system partners
Shape future ways of working across Adults' and Children's Social Care
Lead high-impact work that supports vulnerable people and communities

If you're a strategic leader who thrives in complexity, understands statutory responsibilities and wants to help shape the future of social care in Nottingham, we'd love to hear from you.

What We Offer

• A role with real influence and visibility across the Council
• Opportunities for learning, development and progression
• Supportive, collaborative colleagues who care about quality and outcomes
• A chance to shape how we listen to and engage with our communities

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Nottingham City Council is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we want our workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences and are committed to ensuring everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and actively encourage applications from disabled people. If you wish to apply under the Disability Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please let us know as part of your application. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

We also proudly support the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from serving personnel, veterans, reservists and military families. We recognise the skills, experience and values that members of the Armed Forces community bring to civilian roles.

At Nottingham City Council, inclusion is central to how we lead, how we work and how we deliver services for our city.

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At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Leadership Support to James Rhodes (ACEX), Yvonne Burton at yvonne.burton@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: Sunday 10th Mary 2026

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: 20th May 2026

If you have any technical issues when completing your application, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.org.uk/support

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About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from Minority Ethnic communities, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer+ community (LGBTQ+) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.