Issue - meetings

A report from the Cabinet Member for Corporate Affairs and HR, Councillor Tahir Rafiq is attached.

Following consideration at a meeting of the Human Resource and Appeals Panel, and previous consideration at Cabinet on 10^th June, Councillor Rafiq, the Cabinet Member for Corporate Affairs and HR presented an updated report.  The report proposes the final changes to the organisation structure which was proposed for the purpose of consultation on 10 June 2020.  The final proposals include changes made based on consultation feedback and further detailed analysis.

Delegated decision:

Cabinet agrees to

• One of the two Deputy Chief Finance Officer posts is reconfigured into Director Financial Transformation and Deputy Chief Finance Officer at Chief Officer Band

H, for which additional costs will be met from transformation funding. The post will assume S151 responsibility and final job descriptions for this role and the Joint Chief Finance Officer are appended

• A Programme Manager is appointed at Chief Officer Band A with responsibility for the governance of the overall transformation programme
• That an interim appointment is made to cover the potentially temporarily vacant post of Executive Director Children and Young People, pending a new starter taking up post. An internal recruitment exercise will be undertaken
• That the post of Assistant Director Education be deleted and replaced by a post of Director of Education with recruitment to commence on the appointment of the Executive Director Children and Young People.
• To approve the long term secondment of an officer, with a remit to lead the implementation of the neighbourhood model including continuation of Community Hubs. The secondee’s job title is Director of Transformation (Communities)
• A new post of Assistant Director Public Service Reform at Chief Officer Band D is established
• A new post of Executive Policy and Research Advisor is established.

Reasons for the decision:

The outcome to the consultation has not impacted on the costs of the proposals approved by Cabinet in June and which are to be met from the corporate capacity budget that was created when the 2020/21 budget was set by Full Council in February 2020.

Other option considered and rejected:

To reject the recommendations.