Service Manager

Role: Interim Service Manager – Safeguarding
Duration: ASAP – 31/03/2023
Rate: £400 per day
IR35: Outside
Location: Dudley
 

The service area is known as “Safeguarding and Support, Court, Child Exploitation and Families Come First”. There are two Service Managers in total and I am recruiting an interim Service Manager to fill a vacant position.

Essential Experiences, Skills and Knowledge:

• An experienced and practising Service Manager who is expected to supervise 4 to 5 team managers.
• Track record in leading court work and driving improvements in this specialist area of social work practice.
• Use performance data to drive improvement and practice.
• Support team managers and individual social workers to meet practice standards consistently.
• A systemic approach to risks management and practice improvement.
• Skills and knowledge in working effectively with children and young people who are at risks of sexual and/or criminal exploitations and/or children on the edge of care.
• Driving permanence for children in care and knowledgeable about the child‚Äôs journey in children‚Äôs social care system.
• Driving CIN and CP and CiC plans.
• Collaborative approach to working with children, families and stakeholders and partner agencies
• Produce high quality reports to senior leadership when required
• Represent the local authority in external partnership meetings.
• Drive and implement the directorate change and improvement agenda.

Please note:

1) 3 days a week physical presence in the office is required.

2) Two nights a month EDT on call – there is a standard pay rate for all regardless of employment status – this pay rate is significantly lower than the day rate.

There are plenty more Social Worker contract roles available should this one not be quite the right fit.