Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Service Manager to join a well-established Children’s service based in Croydon.
Team/Specialism: Social Work with Families
Pay Rate: £400 per day
Contract: Locum, 3-Months
Hours: Full-time
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Duties:
- Be crucial in leading and implementing the development of the vision of ‘Young Croydon’, which brings together the Adolescent Social Work, Adolscent Support Workers & Families Together (Edge of Care), which is key to how we respond to vulnerable adolescents in Croydon
- Project manage the change programme to create a multiagency response to ‘Young Croydon’ to deliver social work services in partnership with key stakeholders, partner agencies, third sector and community / faith organisations
- Participate in and ensure regular audits and review of case work and records, and ensure feedback from audits are embedded in social work practice within their teams and across the partnership
- Instill a culture of customer service and ‘can do’ attitude across teams
- Lead on the development of a partnership approach to the management of contacts and referrals for children in need and where there is a potential safeguarding concern regarding a child
- Lead operational service to provide an effective offer of targeted early help; assessment and intervention with family led planning at the heart of practice
- Oversee the multi agency practice in response to child exploitation and children who go missing from home and care
- Leading on and/or contributing to the strategic commissioning of relevant services
- Ensuring they are developed, delivered and accessed in the context of a clear and shared partnership understanding of appropriate intervention
Requirements of the Service Manager:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Significant frontline experience in Children’s Services
- A high level communication and influencing skills with a wide range of stake-holders to ensure that all partner agencies are working in a coordinated and integrated way to keep children safe
- Evidence of continuous professional development relevant to the role profile
- A clear commitment to services working in partnership with families and creating positive change in children’s lives
- Demonstrable experience of leading and managing children’s social care services that are relevant to this particular 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 successfully transforming poorly performing social care services into high performing services
- 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
- Comprehensive understanding of: national policy, strategy and developments regarding children’s social care, and areas that impact on children’s social care/relevant legislation, statutory guidance, standards and procedures/relevant theoretical frameworks, practice models and research findings/“outcomes” concepts, quality assurance methodology and change / project management techniques
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) in order to lead and motivate others, and negotiate with partners
- Expertise in the evaluation of evidence relating to harm to children supporting social work practice in the protection of children
- Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of successful provision of effective demand and budget management
- Ability to work with high level internal and external stakeholders
- Good IT skills, including MS Office
- Undertake an enhanced DBS disclosure prior to employment and then every three years
- Able to work outside of normal office hours when required and to be part of the senior management out-of-hours rota
Contact:
This Service Manager job is advertised by Billy Holland; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
