Home Team Manager – Care Placements & Transformation

Venn Group; Grã-Bretanha; Presencial; GBP 55 000 - 70 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Venn Group is seeking an experienced Home Team Manager for Children’s Social Care Commissioning on an interim basis to support a key transformation in the Children Looked After service, focusing on commissioning, brokerage and external placements for looked after children.

You will provide senior leadership, strengthen provider relationships, and drive value for money by improving market engagement and placement processes during organisational change.

Qualificações

• Extensive knowledge of the children's social care external placements market.
• Experience managing a children's social care brokerage, placement finding or home-finding team.
• Understanding of Children Looked After services, statutory processes, care planning and placement decision-making.
• Experience leading service transformation, organisational restructures and implementing new ways of working.
• Excellent commercial negotiation skills, with a track record of securing placements and achieving value for money.

Responsabilidades

• Support the transformation and restructure of the Home Team, helping implement new processes, structures and ways of working.
• Provide management support and operational resilience to a busy home-finding and placement brokerage function.
• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of placement-finding processes, ensuring children are matched with appropriate homes as quickly as possible.
• Strengthen relationships with independent residential providers and improve market engagement.
• Lead on commercial negotiations with providers, securing appropriate placements at competitive rates while maintaining quality.
• Drive improved value for money across external residential placements.
• Improve information sharing between operational social care teams and commissioning.
• Use placement and market intelligence to identify trends, inform decision-making and support sufficiency planning.

Conhecimentos

Children's care market

Brokerage / placement finding

Commercial negotiation

Stakeholder management

Transformation leadership

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Venn Group is seeking an experienced Home Team Manager for Children’s Social Care Commissioning on an interim basis to support a key transformation in the Children Looked After service, focusing on commissioning, brokerage and external placements for looked after children.

You will provide senior leadership, strengthen provider relationships, and drive value for money by improving market engagement and placement processes during organisational change.