Sanctuary Executive is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Service Manager to fill a full-time role within a Single Point of Access Service based in London. The ideal candidate will possess highly developed specialist knowledge of social work practice in Children's services and be registered with the HCPC.
The pay rate for this locum Service Manager job is £40 per hour (LTD Company Equivalent) and is a 3-month contract.
About the role:
- A local authority in London are seeking out an experienced interim Service Manager to lead their Single Point of Access. The Service Manager for the Single Point of Access (SPA) will provide strategic and operational leadership to the following multi-agency practitioners within SPA.
- The SPA is the gateway for all incoming contacts into children's services and a key team in supporting, liaising and enabling partner agencies in understanding their roles and identifying safeguarding concerns.
- The SPA receives and records incoming information and works in partnership with police; various health professionals; probation, housing and adult services to share information so that we can together provide a co-ordinated, appropriate and timely response.
- The SPA is the team that makes decisions on threshold for all referrals into the service.
Duties:
- The post holder will lead, manage and support the development of the new Safeguarding role within the team focusing on vulnerable adolescents where the risk is extra familial (contextual safeguarding) enabling this role to lead in providing advice, guidance and support to senior officers, frontline practitioners and multi-agency partners in ensuring that robust systems are in place to respond to the issue of risk faced by young people within their networks and community.
Requirements of the Service Manager:
- Recent experience within a similar role
Contact:
This Service Manager job is advertised by Billy Holland; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting us. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
