Service Manager – Children Looked After 0-16

Salary: CSRA £75,784-£83,011
Retention payment: £1,500

36 per week / Monday – Friday

Permanent

Job Purpose

We are seeking a qualified and experienced Service Manager to join our Children Looked After 0-16 service. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring children receive the best support to help them achieve their aspirations and have an active voice in everything that we do. You will lead, motivate, manage, supervise and develop practice and performance of a team of Team Managers to foster a culture of continuous learning and development. The successful candidate should have an experience in similar role.

About You

Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.

Service Manager experienced in managing services for children.

Experienced in making assessments, implementing plans and delivering interventions for children in the relevant service area of the child’s journey.

Experienced in leading and managing performance of team managers, ensuring the cases are allocated effectively in terms of skills and experience suited to the complexity of the case.

A clear commitment to services working in partnership with families and creating positive change in young people’s lives.

Demonstrable experience of leading and managing statutory interventions that are relevant to this service area and role (including high risk and high complexity work), and that deliver high quality performance and good outcomes for children and young people.

Able to lead, think, plan and manage strategically and systemically, as well as operationally.

Able to use performance information to drive improvement for children and young people.

Able to produce high quality, analytical and evidence-based reports.

Able to manage, plan and control delegated budgets.

Experience of developing high quality services within a statutory setting, with a particular focus on contextualised safeguarding.

Experience of developing a highly motivated, high achieving and stable work force with a positive, “can-do”, customer-centred culture.

Able to work outside of normal office hours when required and to be part of the senior manager out-of-hours rota.

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