Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the VVE & HART Team to work full time based in Haringey.
The salary for this permanent Service Manager job is up to £61,491per annum.
Main duties:
- The post holder has line management responsibility for both the (VVE Team) Violence Vulnerability & Exploitation Service, alongside the (HART) Haringey Access Resource Team where there is line management responsibility for Team Managers, Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, and Administrators.
- To be responsible for effective management of Team Mangers and other practice staff as required and to provide accountability for the delivery of services to children, young people and their families.
- Ensures that there is effective management of the VVE and HART services, including judgement of risk to individual families and children, within the Service and across agencies. This may on occasion include managing staff in different locations.
- To manage staff from 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 service for local residents.
- To identify matters that might lead to disciplinary proceedings, carry out investigations and present at hearings as and when necessary. To be responsible for the implementation of the absence monitoring policy in relation to the staff team.
- To ensure record keeping across the teams in consistency of a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and record promptly within the appropriate framework.
- To initiate and chair single and inter-agency meetings and core work groups for particular children, monitoring the performance of agreed tasks for all participants.
- To participate in the development of Service Strategies and Departmental Business Plans, set individual and team objectives, targets and standards and to manage performance against these.
- Makes decisions, co-ordinates and directs staff in making decisions to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families within a single and multi-agency care planning framework.
- To work with managers across the Children and Young People’s Service to ensure children receive a seamless and holistic response to their needs.
- To ensure that all staff are appropriately trained to the required standards of competence in the use of industry standard applications such as Microsoft Office as well as electronic social care record systems.
- To undertake any other duties consistent with the basic objectives and duties of the post.
Requirements of this Service Manager role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- A recognised management qualification or evidence of participation on an organisational leadership or management development programme.
- Evidence of post-qualification continued professional development.
Contact:
This Service Manager job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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.
