Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Strategic Manager within the Children’s Residential Service to work full time for Northamptonshire Children’s Trust.

The salary for this Strategic Manager job is up to £90,000 per annum.

Main duties:

• To provide and practice strategic leadership, management and advice on all issues related to cared for children and care experienced young adults in Northamptonshire Children’s Trust.
• To support the development and delivery of children’s services vision, values and strategic objectives for children and young people, and their parents and carers, taking a lead role on the development of relevant strategies, policies, procedures, programmes and projects across Children’s Services and professional agencies including the Integrated Care System.
• To manage the budget for Children in Care and Leaving Care and Leaving Care Services and contribute to the budget setting and the coming in on target.
• To chair relevant panels and attend and contribute to the Quality Assurance Board and Corporate Parenting Board, and any other forums as when required.
• To work strategically with multi-agency partners, elected members and other key stakeholders including voluntary organisations to promote corporate parenting responsibilities and establish and maintain joint working policies and practices, understanding and assessing significant risk for any decisions made with the aim of enabling the achievement of positive outcomes for children, young people and young adults.
• Ensure effective participation and appropriate involvement of care experienced young adults in the planning and development of services that meet their needs.
• To oversee all areas of service performance and support staff to achieve practice that is of excellent quality and evidence-based, underpinned by Signs of Safety practice model with the voice of the child evident in all service delivery and that staff are appropriately development and supported.
• To support other areas of the Children’s Trust as required and provide management  and advice on all issues related to cared for children and care experienced young adults in Northamptonshire Children’s Trust.
• To provide out of hours cover as and when required and/or as cover rotas dictate.

What Northamptonshire Offer:

• 28 Days Annual Leave (Additional 5 days after 5 years).
• Relocation costs up to £8,000.
• Retention Bonus Payments.
• Government Pension Scheme Plus Immediate Life Cover.
• Employee Discounts.
• Flexible & Family Working Arrangements.

Requirements of this Strategic Manager:

•  Understanding of relevant legislation.
•  Must have BA in Social Work or Diploma in Social Work.
•  Registered Social Work England

Contact:
This Strategic Manager job is advertised by Sam Bellotti; 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.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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.