Service Manager Safeguarding and Family Support
Reference number: SC06488
Location: London
Schedule: Full-Time
Salary Range: £56,271 – £69,990
Contract Type: Permanent
The role
Can you make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children and their families?
If yes, we have the perfect role for you!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Service Manager to join the Safeguarding & Family Support Service. Come and join the team!
As a Service Manager, you will provide professional leadership and will support and seek out collaborative opportunities across the service. You will work closely with colleagues in Family Early Help, Assessment & Intervention, Care Services and the YOS to enable a positive experience and journey for children who come to our attention.
You will manage employees, including three Safeguarding Teams, a Specialist Parenting Assessment team driving excellent practice and outcomes for children and their families. You will also manage relevant budgets, and team/individual performance in accordance with the council procedures and objectives.
About you
You will be someone who is passionate and who values relationship based social worker, trauma informed practice, restorative practice and uses this amongst other models to shape the way you lead and drive social work practice, whilst aiming to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families.
To be considered for interview, you application must clearly evidence the following:
- Registered with the SWE and have relevant experience.
- Secure knowledge and understanding of public law, statutory requirements, and high-quality safeguarding practice in relation to children and young people.
- Experience of successful management of social work services for children we care for, including the management of service change and development.
- Understanding of and commitment to high quality systemic, relationship based and restorative practice, in work with children, young people and families, staff and partners.
- Ability to influence the views and practice of a wide range of agencies in order to promote better outcomes for children and young people.
- Able to inspire the highest quality practice across the service.
- Able to understand and manage a complex budget in order to meet statutory requirements, deliver value for money and achieve best outcomes for young people.
- Proven experience of managing people and teams including motivation, engagement, performance management and development.
- Ability to make a confident, insightful contribution to quality assurance across Children, Families and Education services.
- Ability to work imaginatively across boundaries within and beyond the Directorate to ensure a coherent, effective response to the needs of young people, and to inspire others to do so too.
Contact details
If you are thinking about applying and would like to have an informal discussion, please contact Antoinette Johnson via email to Antoinette.Johnson@Southwark.gov.uk
Additional details
Please note a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check is required at enhanced level.
Additional salary details
This post also attracts an additional JNC financial benefits package of £2,724 per annum (pro-rata, April-March).
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits.
Recruitment timetable
Closing date: 11:59pm on Sunday 28 April 2024.
Shortlisting date: 1 May 2024.
Interview date: 8 and 9 May 2024.
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you’ll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.
