Service Manager - Child Support & Safeguarding Service - NCT

Posted 16 August 2022
Salary £51684 - £63567 per annum + upto £8000 Welcome Bonus
LocationNorthampton
Job type Permanent
Discipline Social Work & Care
ReferenceSERVI15899_1660638261
ContactVaughan Graham

Job description

Northamptonshire Children's Trust
Service Manager - Children's Support & Safeguarding Service
£51,684 to £63,567
Full Time - Permanent

About Us
Children's Services at Northamptonshire are in an exciting period of significant transformation. We are a unique Children's Trust which delivers services for two new unitary authorities across the county.
The Children's Trust allows for a single focus on improving the outcomes of children and young people in Northamptonshire and will aim to develop a working culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish, aiming to deliver at the cutting edge of innovation.

The Children's Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children's Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils. This provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish, delivering at the cutting edge of innovation.

Our Service Your Role
Children's support and safeguarding teams complete work with children who are subject to child protection plans, child-in-need plans and Public Law Outline/initial care proceedings. They also support multi-agency practice in completing pre-birth and parenting assessments and work with adolescents focusing on contextualised safeguarding.

Utilising a relationship-based approach, where the young person is at the heart of everything we do, the service will undertake assessments, both statutory and non-statutory, and will focus on intensive, direct work to meet complex needs and manage associated risks. Some packages of support will be led by social workers, others by lead professionals from across the service, and including partner agencies. The service wants good outcomes for young people and for them to be safe; adequately housed and supported (with their families wherever possible); physically and emotionally healthy and achieving good outcomes through education, training, or employment.
We are seeking a Service Manager, with current Social Work England registration, and significant previous leadership experience in this area of work.

You will provide leadership to your service, consisting of three safeguarding teams and have understanding and experience of safeguarding at a strategic and operational level.

The right candidate will have responsibility for the service plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved.

The Person
The right candidate will be a qualified Social Worker, with current Social Work England registration, and ideally with a Level 5 NVQ Management qualification, or equivalent relevant experience. You will have the ability to manage a service and ensure development and performance issues are addressed though support and coaching. You will have previous budgetary control experience, ICT skills and the ability to represent the service at a more senior level if required.
Are you someone who can think creatively, is enthusiastic, innovative, bold, and motivated to bring about change?

What we offer
* Highly competitive salaries
* Social Work England registration costs
* Flexible working practices, including home working, flexi time and job share
* The opportunity to personally contribute to improving the service
* Monthly high-quality supervision
* Up to 27 day's annual leave plus bank holidays (with service rises to 32 days plus bank holidays)
* Opportunity to buy back up to 5 weeks of additional holiday each year
* Subsidised local authority Pension Scheme
* Additional 12 weeks of maternity leave at 50%
* Employee discount schemes
* Up to £8,000 relocation allowance
* Signs of Safety training
* An onsite academy delivering a variety of learning & development opportunities
* Heavily subsidised city centre parking
* Regular engagement opportunities with the CEO