Issue - meetings

A report from Councillor Jane Black, Cabinet Member for Corporate Affairs and HR is attached.

Councillor Jane Black, Cabinet Member for Corporate Affairs and HR presented to Members of Cabinet final proposed changes to the organisation structure.  The final proposals include changes made based on consultation feedback and further detailed analysis.

The report summarises the consultation process; key messages of feedback and associated changes proposed and the final recommendations which affect the Council workforce.  A separate report will be made to the CCG Governing Body concerning changes to the CCG workforce establishment.  On the basis of consultation feedback a number of changes are proposed. 

A detailed implementation plan will be developed, with a view to all changes being complete by the new financial year.

Delegated decision:

Following the recommendation of the Human Resource and Appeals Panel held on the 13^th January 2020:

Cabinet agrees to:

1)   To replace the current organisation structure with the four new departments of Operations; Business Growth and Infrastructure; Children and Young People; and Corporate Core Services, alongside the One Commissioning Organisation. The detail of structures in each of the new departments will be brought forward by the relevant Executive Director with a ‘lift and shift’ arrangement in the meantime. As part of this process the posts in scope of departments and the OCO will continue to be subject to review and further proposed moves may be identified, subject to appropriate consultation with affected individuals.

2)   To agree to the establishment of the following posts:

·      Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning

·      An interim appointment, pending the development of permanent capacity, to provide leadership of joint IT arrangements

·      Director of Community Commissioning

·      Children’s Commissioning Lead

·      Chief Information Officer re-established as a joint post with Bury CCG

·      Strategic Partnerships Manager

·      Partnerships Co-ordinator

3)   To agree the deletion of the following posts on the grounds of redundancy:

·      Executive Director, Business Growth and Infrastructure

·      Executive Director, Communities and Wellbeing

·      Assistant Director Strategy, Procurement and Finance

·      Assistant Director – HR/OD

·      Head of HR -  Children’s Workforce

·      Head of Financial Management

·      Assistant Director (Localities)

·      Strategic Lead: Children’s Strategy and Commissioning

·      Head of Operational Community Safety

·      Assistant Improvement Advisor

·      Administration Support Officer (Corporate Policy)

4)   To note the outstanding budget pressure of £103 000 on the Chief Officer budget and to note the corporately managed exercise to reduce costs over the next 12 months

5)   To agree to vary the contracts of all Chief Officers in scope of the emergency planning on-call rota to reflect this requirement.

Reason for the decision:

Outside of the relatively small number of statutory posts, the Council has a wide discretion to create a senior manager structure to reflect the current needs of the Organisation.  The original paper, approved by HRA and Cabinet in September 2019, identified savings of c£760k in relation to the proposed corporate restructure.