Local Evidence Lead (Children's Services)

Evaluated Grade - PO9 plus market factor

12 month fixed term contract

37 hours per week

£50,142- £53,282 per annum (Salaries include market factor where applicable)

Full reimbursement of Social Work England registration fee

Essential Car User Allowance

To be based within the Intensive Support and Wellbeing Hub and alongside the Strategic Lead for Practice, this role will lead work with local leaders and commissioners to embed recommendations from the Foundations Practice Guides and evidence-based interventions into local service pathways, and foster a culture of evidence use as part of children's services transformation.

The Local Evidence Lead will lead the work associated with being a 'Foundations Partner Place' as part of Foundations' Evidence into Practice work. This will include assessing the current service offer for children and families, agreeing priorities for work with Foundations, and working with senior leaders in the local authority, as well as wider stakeholders and Foundations to ensure that evidence-based practice and materials make a difference to children and young people's outcomes.

The Local Evidence Lead will oversee the identification, selection and delivery of evidence-based interventions (EBIs) and recommendations from the Practice Guides - commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) and produced by Foundations.

Decisions will be based on evidence from assessments as they relate to transformation in children's services:

• population needs;
• service and system assessment;
• workforce;
• children's and families' experiences;
• and local multi-agency systems.

The programme is closely aligned with the DfE Families First Partnership Programme. The Local Evidence Lead will lead all aspects of the programme at the local level, providing capacity building activities aimed at supporting local change and addressing implementation barriers to ensure key objectives are met. This will involve increasing senior local authority leaders' technical knowledge about the benefits of implementing EBIs and the recommendations of the Practice Guides, and the ways in which implementation theory can support fidelity of delivery as well as support local authorities to measure success. It will include building relationships between key stakeholders to create the infrastructure required for the successful implementation of EBIs and the recommendations of the Practice Guides to thrive, as well as scaffolding their setup and overseeing quality assurance.

The LEL will also work with Foundations to capture and share learning from this work with other Partner Places in their region and with national stakeholders such as the DfE.

Our brilliant practitioners are at the heart of our ambitious approach to improve outcomes for children and families in Telford and Wrekin: from tailored in-house training to the West Midlands Teaching Partnership, we ensure that our workforce have access to the best development opportunities.

If you think you can meet the challenge and would like to find out more about this role, please see our recruitment web pages or contact us by emailing or by calling .

Please click on the link below to view the job description and person specification.

At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.

Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.

A CV template is available if you do not already have a CV.

We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax efficient Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes
• Free on-site parking
• Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day
• Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling
• Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home - our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments
• Private lettings are available from 'Nuplace' who give priority to social work professional

Find out further information about working at Telford & Wrekin Council including our full list of benefits.

Please note that Telford & Wrekin Council do not hold a sponsorship licence for visas.

Attached documents
LEL JD November 2025 final.docx