Service Manager - Family Safeguarding Team

Service Manager - Family Safeguarding Team

Start: October 2023

Location: Wiltshire

Rate: £500 p/d Inside IR35 via an Umbrella Company

Duration: 3 months initially (likely to extend further)

Working pattern: Hybrid

Our client, a Local Authority in Wiltshire is looking for a new Service Manager for their Family Safeguarding Team. You will work effectively with colleagues within the council and partner agencies to deliver an integrated, strengths-based, and outcome focussed service in accordance with statutory responsibilities and regulations.

If you are a dynamic individual with leadership qualities who shares this vision we want to hear from you. You may already have experience as a Service Manager or you may be stepping into this new level and want to use your experience to develop this service.

Our client is one of just a few local authorities in the country using the Family Safeguarding Model, bringing together one team of workers with a range of skills and knowledge to offer help and support to families around a wide range of problems.

Key Accountabilities:

• Shape and drive the design and implementation of a new operating model under the direction of the Service Director – Children & Families
• Contribute to the strategic direction of the service area and wider children services agenda
• Act as Workforce Development Lead for the service area
• Manage up to 5 Team Managers
• Ensure that the voice of the child is at the heart of practice
• Act as Practice Leaders, championing children, driving and leading practice
• Lead the strategic development and implementation of the Practice and Procedural Framework
• Ensure that through quality assurance, performance management we are able to deliver a quality service that has delivers measurable outcomes for children
• Create the cultural conditions for this approach to be embedded
• Lead the teams to achieve, to learn and be solution focused
• Understand, use and promote the use of data and quality to understand and ensure service effectiveness

Knowledge & Experience:

• Demonstrable evidence of management development expertise
• Demonstrable evidence of managing child protection and other social work services to safeguard children, including direct responsibility for operational staff
• Thorough knowledge of relevant legislation, guidance and policy context relating to the work of children’s services and social work
• Ability to lead and implement change
• Excellent management and leadership skills
• Project management experience
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly to a range of audiences and across organisational boundaries
• Ability to monitor and manage budgets and contribute to the budget setting process

Qualifications:

• Social Work qualification and appropriate registration

If you meet the above-mentioned criteria, we would love to hear from you. Please apply to receive more information.

At Venn Group, we endeavour to respond to all applications. However due to the volume of applications we receive, if you have not heard from us within 48 hours please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.