Job Introduction
Bradford Children and Families Trust was established in April 2023 to enhance the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district. Our purpose is clear, to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination, and resilience – but under a new Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we’ll achieve our ambition – and you, yours.
So, if you’re up for the Challenge we’d love to hear from you!
About The Role
The Service Manager will be responsible for the effective leadership of Prevention and Early Help services, ensuring that the provision achieves good outcomes for vulnerable children while also Ensuring high quality safeguarding practices and policies are in place and fully implemented.
The Service Manager will also provide visible leadership to a service that seeks to continuously improve outcomes for the most vulnerable young people in the community.
Finally the service manager will ensure that statutory requirements and national and local policy and procedures in relation to the provision of children’s social work are always adhered to and manage social work resources efficiently and effectively, prioritising need and working cooperatively within the Service Management Team.
Key Responsibilities
- To have overall responsibility for management of locality teams that consist of Targeted Family Support, Family Hubs, Early Help Co-coordinators, Family navigators and other related posts.
- To ensure that assessments, plans, interventions and review processes are timely, well planned, child focused and follow the appropriate statutory and local decision-making frameworks.
- Provide direct line management and have supervisory responsibility for all team members and professional staff and to promote their professional development.
- Promote participation and the child’s voice as part of your leadership, putting child focused decision making at the center of your practice.
- Build and sustain effective working partnerships across the locality 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.
- Investigate and make recommendations to senior management concerning matters of staff conduct and professional responsibilities.
About You
- Lead and motivate staff effectively in order to deliver excellence and achieving positive outcomes for children and young people, including promoting high quality supervision of both staff and case work.
- Additional management training or qualification such as DMS, NVQ5 in management is desirable.
- Must have recent relevant statutory experience of managing regulated resources for children and young people.
List of Benefits:
- Generous Employer Contributions in a Local Government Pension Scheme
- Competitive salary and pay progression structure.
- Real living wage as the minimum rate of pay
- Supportive carer and parental policies
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Access to Occupational Health and confidential counselling services
- Supportive staff networks
- Access to Blue Light Card Discounts
- Professional development/support
- Career Progression
- Enhanced annual leave entitlement
- Social Worker Registration Fees paid
- Flexible Working/Hybrid options subject to service need
- Retention Payment Applicable – as part of this role you will be eligible for our annual retention payment, paid in 12 monthly instalments. This is non contractual (reviewed annually).
Next Steps
For an informal discussion regarding the role please contact Lisa Brett (Head of Service) on lisa.brett@bradfordcft.org.uk.
Bradford Children and Families Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees to share this commitment.
If shortlisted, you will be required to disclose relevant information regarding criminal history prior to interview.
A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check including a check against the Children’s barred list, will be carried out on preferred candidates.
