Corporate Director, Families, Children and Wellbeing

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location_on Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ

credit_card Salary Up to £174k plus relocation package of up to £10k

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Corporate Director, Families, Children and Wellbeing

location_on Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ 04/12/2026

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Job details

Salary Up to £174k plus relocation package of up to £10k

Contractual hours 37

Package We are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.

Job category/type Childcare and Nursery, Community and Youth Work, Libraries, Social Work - Children

Date posted 03/11/2026

Job reference REQ0001732

Attachments Politically restricted posts guidance.pdf FCW DLT 041126.pdf 4782. Dec24. Corporate Director Families Children and Wellbeing.JDPS.docx

Job description

Few places are quite like Brighton & Hove. Vibrant, diverse, creative and proudly different, it's a city with huge opportunity, but also significant inequalities.

We are looking for an exceptional leader to help us deliver for every child, family and community.

As Corporate Director, Families, Children & Wellbeing, you will be statutory director of children's services and lead public health, community cohesion and libraries to create a healthy city where people can thrive. Brighton & Hove City Council Plan

You will inherit strong foundations. Outstanding children's social care, strong Local Area SEND arrangements, Best Start family hubs and an established youth offer but inequality, rising demand, complexity and financial pressures mean we need to think differently.

We need an innovative leader to build on what works while being bold about change, forge strong partnerships across health, education, police and our voluntary and community sector, and harness data, digital and AI to deliver better outcomes and sustainable services.

As part of our corporate leadership team, you will help shape the whole council and lead us as a learning organisation that is connected, confident, innovative and creative, diverse and inclusive, and healthy and psychologically safe.

If you bring energy, curiosity and ambition, and want to lead in a city with diversity at its core, we would love to hear from you.

• Closing date: Friday 4 December 2026
• Technical Interviews: 18 December 2026
• Final Interviews: w/c 4 January 2026 and w/c 11 January 2026

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

Why work for us?

As a council, we want to:

• be connected
• be confident
• be innovative and creative
• be diverse and inclusive
• be healthy and psychologically safe

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.

Senior recruitment enhanced vetting

All candidates who progress beyond the initial application stage will be subject to a search of their public profile. Final offers are subject to enhanced vetting, and any findings of potential concern will be discussed at the interview stage.

AI advice for candidates

We are interested in hearing about your experience and skills in your own words. While we value people who know how to use AI, we ask that you minimise using it in your application.

We are keen to hear how your experience and skills align to our values and the skills and experience needed to perform well in our roles with clear real examples from you. To support you in this, we have guidance on using the STAR model which can help you ensure you are telling us your whole story. We also provide clarity