Service Manager (Social and Healthcare Qualified)

mbi Medical Ltd; Bradford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Bradford seeks a dedicated manager to oversee staff conduct and ensure child-focused practices in service delivery. The role requires excellent leadership skills and the ability to coordinate services effectively while meeting local and national targets. Candidates must demonstrate capability in financial management and supervisory responsibilities to support the development of front line managers. Strong interpersonal skills are essential for partnership across various services.

Responsibilities

• Investigate staff conduct and recommend to management.
• Provide management and supervise up to eight front line managers.
• Promote child voice in decision-making effectively.

Job description

Overview

To ensure that assessments, plans, interventions and reviews (APIR) processes are timely, well planned, child focused and follow the appropriate statutory and decision Competency Based.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and make recommendations to senior management concerning matters of staff conduct and professional responsibilities.
• Provide direct line management and have supervisory responsibility to up to eight front line managers and promote their professional development.
• Promote participation and the child’s voice as part of your leadership of the CCHDT & Residential Respite service putting child focused decision making at the centre of your practice.
• Build and sustain effective working partnerships across statutory services and the VCS to promote joined up, and effective responses to children and families.
• You will be jointly responsible for the recruitment and selection of the workforce required to effectively run this service area ensuring that safe and appropriate recruitment processes are followed.
• Provide strong leadership to the service area working alongside your colleagues to develop effective communication and to ensure continued service development.
• Ensure that the service area is subject to effective financial management and works to a budget.
• Operate to meet local and national targets, performance managing a service area, ensuring continual progress and improvement.
• Address poor performance in an effective and supportive way to ensure that outcomes are achieved for children and young people.
• Exercise a high degree of professional judgement within Council guidelines and will be expected to be self reliant on a day to day basis.
• Provide regular high quality formal supervision to their managers.
• Ensure requirements of Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information Act are met.