Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Leaving Care Team to work Full Time based in Haringey.
The salary for this Service Manager job is up to £65,478 per annum.
Main duties:
- To be responsible for effective Management of Team Managers and other practice staff as required to ensure across the Children’s Service the delivery of a seamless and holistic response to children and young people’s needs and to provide accountability for the delivery of services to children, young people and their families.
- Ensure that there is effective management of childcare services, including judgement of risk to families and children, within the Service and across agencies. This may include managing staff in different locations, other disciplines and agencies as may be required as part of delivering multi-disciplinary services.
- To manage, develop and continuously review services for the client group in partnership with others, in order to promote the provision of good quality, best value services for local residents.
- To maintain a high quality of work standards uniformly across the service by ensuring that all staff and managers receive regular, high quality, challenging and reflective supervision, performance appraisal and standard setting. To lead, develop and manage team member’s expertise and special skills in accordance with departmental and Council policy and guidance.
- To be responsible where appropriate for the recruitment, appointment and probationary assessment of new staff in compliance with Council Policy and procedures. To identify staff learning and development needs and ensure high standard of professional practice are achieved through systemic individual and team development programmes, to ensure that all staff are appropriately trained to the required standards of competence.
- To participate in and to ensure regular audits of record keeping across the teams is consistently of a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and recorded promptly within the appropriate frameworks and embedded within practice and their teams.
- To initiate, organise, attend and chair meetings as appropriate, including but not limited to single and inter-agency meetings and core work groups for particular children, monitor performance of agreed tasks for all participants.
- To ensure that the views of our service users continuously contribute to improvements to the service.
- Coordinates and directs staff in decision making process to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families within a single and multi-agency care planning framework.
- To be accountable for the most effective use of allocated budgets, adhere to Best Value principles, control cost and enhance.
- To undertake any other temporary responsibilities aligned with the overall purpose and grade of the role.
Requirements of this Service Manager job:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
Contact:
This Service Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.
