Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Children’s Single Point of Access & Partnership Team to work full time based in Reading for Brighter Futures for Children.
The salary for this permanent Service Manager job is up to £74,883 per annum.
Main duties:
- To monitor and manage the performance of teams within the scope of their responsibility, resolve any issues encountered and highlight service achievements to the senior management team. To ensure that all management responsibilities are carried out within the Company’s agreed policies and procedures.
- To develop a strategy across the service to communicate and consult with service users and involve them in service design and developments. To develop innovative and effective approaches to the participation of children and young people and their families.
- To establish, implement and review annual objectives and targets and ensure that team managers produce and implement service and team improvement plans setting our clear aims, objectives, targets and performance.
- To develop systems for the effective monitoring of performance and recognising and commending good performance and to demonstrate high expectations of performances.
- To contribute to overall quality assurance and to be responsible for quality assurance in own service, including the use of audits, service user feedback and consultation.
- Secure sustainable partnership arrangements with key partners, particularly health, schools, colleagues and the voluntary sector, and other local authorities, ensuring the care planning meets the neds and the safety of the child and where these add value to the work of the service in seeking to improve outcomes for children and young people.
- To seek ways to develop the multi-agency services provided so that they model best practice and ensure the safe care of children and young people.
- To ensure all actions of team members comply with Company’s policies on diversity, equal opportunities, inclusion, belonging and health & safety, including leading through role model behaviour.
- To establish, maintain and lead multi-agency partnerships with other agencies in the statutory, targeted and independent sector leading to positive liaisons and the development of new projects and initiatives.
- To undertake such duties appropriate to the nature of the post as may be required.
Requirements of this Service Manager Job.
- Degree or equivalent in Social Work.
- Registered as Social Worker.
- Understanding of the SW legislation.
- Ability to relate professionally with the children and families.
Contact:
This Service Manager job is advertised by Alex Moon; 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.
