Service Manager - Children We Care For

Wmjobs; Oldbury; Hybrid; GBP 62,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave

Birthday day off

Pension scheme

Service awards

Flexible working

Travel expenses

Job summary

Sandwell Children’s Trust is seeking a Service Manager for the Children We Care For service on a 3-month fixed-term basis. You will lead a child-centred, plan-driven service and oversee workload management, supervision, and practice standards.

The role is hybrid with a focus on safeguarding and continuous improvement. You will drive multi-agency collaboration, ensure statutory duties are met, and support staff development while delivering strong outcomes for children and families.

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker, Social Work England registered and enhanced DBS.
• Confident and inspirational leader with management experience in Children’s Services.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to handle complexity.
• Extensive knowledge of working with vulnerable children and statutory safeguarding.

Responsibilities

• Lead the service in managing workloads with child-centred, permanence-focused planning and ensure staff supervision and practice standards are embedded.
• Coordinate multi-agency interventions, signposting and management with agreed standards for working with children and families; provide scrutiny, guidance, quality assurance and direction.
• Hold practitioners and managers to account for meeting standards of practice and driving performance through supervision, appraisal and transformation priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Management

Organisational skills

Staff supervision

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Social Work England registered

Job description

Sandwell Children's Trust are looking for a Service Manager for their Children We Care for Service on a 3 month Fixed Term basis.

At Sandwell Children's Trust, we firmly believe that the voice of the child should be at the centre of everything we do. We are on an ambitious journey to ensure that children and families in Sandwell are safe and empowered to thrive.

Our 'Sandwell Deal', brings together our new improved offering that make Sandwell Children's Trust a great place to work; it also sets out our expectations of you as a member of staff.

What we can offer you:-

• Generous annual leave of up to 31 days, plus 5 additional days for long service recognition.


• Your birthday off paid in addition to annual leave entitlement and 8 Bank Holidays, plus a concessionary day at Christmas.


• You will receive a generous local government career average pension scheme with employer contributions of 21.6%.


• We recognise individual loyalty with service awards from 2, 5, 10 and every 5 years onwards.


• Flexible working patterns that suit you and all of our roles have well-defined career progression.


• We provide competitive expenses for both mileage (55p per mile) and subsistence, plus access to a comprehensive employee benefits scheme.

Please visit The Sandwell Deal via this hyperlink

https://sandwelldeal.co.uk/

3 months Fixed Term Contract

£62,179- £65,938 pro rata dependent upon experience

Hybrid working

We're looking for exceptional candidates who are passionate, committed and dedicated to improving the lives of children and young people.

As a Service Manager working in Children We Care For at the Trust you will:-

• Lead the service in the management of the workloads focused of effective planning that is child centred, focused on permanence and ensuring staff supervision and practice standards are embedded


• Ensure interventions and support for children and young people through multi-agency approaches are signposted and managed with the agreed standards guidelines for working with children and families; provide scrutiny, professional guidance, quality assurance and direction to your service


• Hold practitioners and managers to account for meeting required standards of practice and driving performance through effective supervision, appraisal and support and support the Trusts priorities and transformation and to ensure that statutory duties and regulations are met.

About you:

• Qualified Social Worker, Social Work England registered and willing to undertake an enhanced DBS.


• You will need to be a confident and inspirational leader with experience in management gained within Children's Services.


• You should be able to draw on your experience to demonstrate excellent organisational skills, a head for complexity, and know how to improve services.


• We would expect you to be able to utilise your significant knowledge of working with vulnerable children in need of statutory safeguarding intervention in a range of settings and from a variety of backgrounds.


• Have a proven track record of supporting continuous improvement in service delivery.

We are proud to create an environment where our employees are nurtured, caseloads are manageable and continuous professional development is encouraged. With a culture of collaborative working and the child at the heart of everything we do, there's never been a more exciting time to join the Trust.

So, if you think your future could lie with a 'Good' Team, then we'd love to hear from you.

By joining our team, you will be making a real difference in the lives of children and families. We are dedicated to driving meaningful change and ensuring the best outcomes for those we serve.With the work that we have done so far and with the ambitions we have for the future, it's a really exciting time to join Sandwell Children's Trust and to become part of our Family.

Sandwell Children's Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups including children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people.

Please note thatpre-employment checks will be carried out in line with the Department for Education KCSIE Guidance 2022.