Team Manager - Children In Care Home Finding & Brokerage

Coventry City Council; Rishton; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council is recruiting an experienced Team Manager Children in Care Home Finding & Brokerage to lead a high-impact service focused on improving outcomes for children and young people in our care.

You will oversee the Home Finding team, drive care planning, commissioning, and market management across residential care, fostering and supported accommodation, ensuring safe, high-quality placements and effective use of resources.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance and regulatory frameworks relating to children in care.
• Strong experience of care planning, home finding, commissioning and sufficiency within children’s services.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate professional teams delivering complex services.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong financial acumen, with experience of managing budgets, placement spend and value for money.
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and a child focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Children in Care Home Finding team to deliver high-quality placements.
• Drive market management, sufficiency planning and quality improvement across homes including residential care, fostering and supported accommodation.
• Contribute at a senior level to strategy development, financial governance and quality assurance using data to drive improvement.
• Collaborate with commissioning, operational children’s services, providers and partners to ensure safe, effective and value-for-money outcomes.

Skills

Care planning

Home finding

Commissioning

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Diversity & inclusion

Leadership

Job description

What is the job role?

Coventry Children's Services is looking for an experienced and motivated Team Manager Children in Care Home Finding & Brokerage to lead a high-impact service at the heart of improving outcomes for children and young people in our care.

This is a senior role where your leadership, care planning, home finding and commissioning knowledge and child-focused professional judgement will directly shape the quality, stability and value for money of homes for Coventry’s children.

As Team Manager, you will take overall responsibility for the effective delivery of the Children in Care Home Finding team. You will lead a skilled team operating in a fast-paced, high-demand environment, ensuring children are placed in safe, high-quality homes that meet their needs and deliver the best possible outcomes.

Working closely with commissioning, operational children’s services, providers and partners, you will play a key role in market management, sufficiency planning and quality improvement across homes including residential care, fostering and supported accommodation.

You will also contribute at a senior level to strategy development, financial governance and quality assurance, using insight and data to drive continuous improvement.

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

Who are we looking for?

You will bring a positive and strong management experience alongside deep knowledge of children’s services, home finding, care planning and commissioning. You’ll be comfortable working strategically while also leading operational delivery in a pressured environment.

You will have:

• Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance and regulatory frameworks relating to children in care
• Strong experience of care planning, home finding, commissioning and sufficiency within children’s services. Understanding of fostering, residential and supported accommodation.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate professional teams delivering complex services
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong financial acumen, with experience of managing budgets, placement spend and value for money
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and a child focused approach.

Interview Date: Thursday, 10th December

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

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.
At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.