CHESHIRE East Council has announced the first wave of appointments to new senior management posts, which replace the previous structure at the top of the organisation.

Overall management costs will be cut by £5 million a year as part of this, by doing away with outdated and unhelpful professional ‘silos’ within the organisation, which created bureaucracy, waste and delay in making the positive differences to quality of life that local people want to see.

Ten senior appointments have been made over the Easter period, following a ‘rigorous and challenging’ selection process.

In addition, one new post has been filled on an interim basis, pending external advertisement, and one is still to be filled.

All the current top posts will be removed and replaced with this new slimmer structure based on bigger jobs, with several staff set to leave the council in the near future, as their functions are handed over to others.

 

 

The new management team at Cheshire East Council.

- Lorraine Butcher – Executive Director of Strategic Commissioning.

- Rachel Musson – Interim Chief Operating Officer.

- Mike Rowan – Interim Monitoring Officer and Head of Legal Services.

- Heather Grimbaldeston – Director of Public Health.

- Tony Crane – Director of Children’s Services.

- Brenda Smith – Director of Adult Social Care and Independent Living.

- Caroline Simpson – Director of Economic Growth and Prosperity.

- Nigel Moorhouse – Head of Early Intervention and Prevention.

- Kevin Melling – Head of Environmental Protection and Enhancement.

- Peter Hartwell – Head of Public Protection and Enforcement.

- Vivienne Quayle – Head of Commercial Strategy, Business Innovation, and Performance.

- Paul Bradshaw – Head of Organisational Development.

- Brian Reed – Head of Democratic Services and Governance.

- To be filled – Head of Resilient Local Communities.