Northumberland County Council
Executive Management Structure
Executive Team Portfolio Structures and Responsibilities
Outlined below is a summary of the portfolio structures and high level indicative areas of responsibility:
Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service
●In line with Section 4 of the Local Government & Housing Act 1989 this post will ensure that Northumberland County Council fulfils its duty to designate one of their officers as its Head of Paid Service.
●The Head of Paid Service has overall responsibility for the management and coordination of the employees appointed by the Council.
●Regulations made under the Local Government Act 2000 reinforce these duties by making the appointment of staff below chief officer level the exclusive function of the Head of Paid Service or someone nominated by him or her.
●The Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service will report to the Leader of the Council
●Business Support Team for the Chief Executive’s Office
●Policy, Inclusion and Voluntary Sector Services
●Oversight of delegated functions to Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust
●Responsibility for Commercial Services eg ARCH Group Ltd (Wholly owned subsidiary of NCC)
●Commercial International lead for NCC and System Transformation support with Northumberland Commissioning Group (CCG) (separately remunerated)
Executive Director of Finance and Section 151 Officer
●Financial Services
●Strategic Finance
●Internal Audit and Risk Management
●Pensions
●Revenues & Benefits
●Performance Management
●Property Services
●Payroll
Executive Director of Place
●Planning
●Strategic and Local Transport
●Economic Regeneration
●Local Services
●Countryside
●Highways
●Housing
●Fleet
Executive Director of Children’s Services (statutory role as outlined in Department for Education “Statutory Guidance on the Roles and Responsibilities of the Director of Children’s Services and the Lead Member for Children’s Services” – April 2013)
●Children’s Social Care
●Education and Skills
●Adoption
●Corporate Parenting
●Safeguarding Children
●Local Authority operated children’s residential services
●Youth Service
Executive Director of Adult Social Care & Commissioning (statutory role as outlined in Department of Health “Guidance on the Statutory Chief Officer Post of the Director of Adult Social Services” – May 2006) and Accountable Officer for Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group
●Adult Social Care
●Public Health
●Safeguarding Adults
●Strategic Commissioning
●Temporary Accountable Officer for Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Group (separately re-numerated)
Executive Director of HR/OD and People Services
●Human Resources (including Recruitment)
●Organisational Development
●Learning and Development
●Communications
●Democratic Services
●Election Services
●Information Services including archives
●Legal Services, Registrars and Coroners
●Customer Services
●Libraries, Tourism, Leisure & Play
The roles of Service Directors will report to either the Executive Director or Chief Executive/Head of Paid Service as follows:
- Service Director: Local Services reporting to Executive Director of Place
- Service Director: Finance reporting to Executive Director of Finance
- Service Director: Childrens Services reporting to Executive Director of Childrens Services
- Service Director: Adult Social Care and Strategic Commissioning reporting to Executive Director of Adult Social Care and Strategic Commissioning
- Service Director: Integration reporting to the Chief Executive/Head of Paid Service
- Service Director: Devolution and Joint Working reporting to the Executive Director of Place and also indirectly reporting to the Chief Executive/Head of Paid Service
Directly accountable roles to the Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service
Whilst not formally part of the Executive Management Team there are several roles which will remain directly accountable to the Chief Executive and Head of Paid Service.
●Chief Fire Officer
oNorthumberland Fire and Rescue Service (NFRS)
oPublic Protection
oEmergency Planning/Civil Contingencies
oHealth and Safety
●Head of Procurement (Shared Service with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust)
●Monitoring Officer (Statutory role)
Page 1