Department of Children’s Services
Children’s Social care
Service Manager
Special C £47,840 – £51,089
2 x 37 hours per week
1. 18.5 hours per week
Established
Based at Sir Henry Mitchell House 4 Manchester Road Bradford BD5 0QL and Town Hall
Bow Street KEIGHLEY BD21 3PA
Bradford is the 4th largest Authority with a population of 530,000 of which 150,000 are children and young people, making us one of the key cities with a young age group population.
To ensure we achieve even better outcomes for children and young people, we are on a journey to excellence; ensuring children are at the heart of everything we do. We are and continue to embed solution focused practice by adopting the signs of safety model with key partners across the district within our work with families and ensuring we have a clear model of care for the children and young people we look after.
Bradford is a dynamic and forward thinking council which is currently reviewing how it delivers its services,
Our aim in partnership with the Children’s Trust is:
'For every one of our children to have the best possible start in life'Page Image
In order to meet our vision, we aspire to develop a workforce that is therapeutically trained and supported, motivated, aspirational and highly skilled, who have the best interests of the children at the heart of everything they do.
POST 1 FT
Service Manager – Keighley
This post will prove an exciting and rewarding challenge for those looking for a new permanent opportunity
The post require you to be:
- Professional qualification such as DIPSW, CQSW or equivalent required.
- Experience of managing child protection work and have a good working knowledge of children's social work, with a focus on current best practice in safeguarding children.
- Professionally qualified and able to motivate and inspire social work teams.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to manage highly complex child protection cases, where demand for the service is high and unpredictable.
- be good at improving outcomes with partners, managing staff, dealing with risk and workforce issues.
The post holder will directly manage a group of qualified Social Work and Community Resource Workers . You will work closely with the Leadership team to meet the needs of young people in Bradford and be line managed by the Head of Service ( social work)
In May 2014, Ofsted found the service to be ‘Good’ for looked after, leaving care, adoption and leadership. Child Protection ‘requires improvement’ and there is a robust action plan in place that you, with staff and partners will be supported to deliver.
The successful candidate will benefit from a learning culture with a real commitment and investment in professional development. Our aim is to give you the support, resources and opportunities to fulfil your potential – achieving the best results for the diverse communities we serve.
For further information regarding this post please contact Di Watherston 01274 437077or email di.watherston@bradford.gov.uk
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.
POST 2 FT
Service Manager - Children’s Homes
This is an exciting opportunity to take on the leadership of our internal children’s homes provision.
We are revising our provision to reduce the size of the homes and create three specialist care home hubs which will be closely linked to the fostering service, CAMHS team, Youth Service, Virtual school and the Police. By building wrap around on site support to the homes we feel that more young people can remain in district and achieve better long term outcomes.
We have invested in re training our work force focusing on embedding a signs of safety approach and establishing PACE (playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy) as the means of communicating with our young people. This focuses on building improved relationships and understanding of the young people living in these settings.
The homes are subject to a yearly Ofsted inspection cycle, in the year 15/16 all the homes were rated good or better.
You will manage 8 children’s homes and provide direct management to the staff teams and registered manager. You will jointly manage the ongoing recruitment and selection of staff to this service area and be involved in placement decision making both internally and externally.
You must be an experienced manager with recent experience of resources management including children’s homes.
You must hold a recognised qualification – NVQ 4 IN Social Care (children) Dip.SW, C.Q.S.W., BA in Social Work, AND
Have a management Qualification – Diploma 5 IN Leadership and Management, MCI Level 4 in Management, DMS, CMS.
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure & Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.
This post will be recruited via Warner process, which means a safeguarding interview as well as a formal interview and extensive checks.
Further information can be obtained by contacting David Byrom – Head of Service 01274 432986
POST 3. 18.5 hours
Service Manager – Through Care and Aftercare
This post will prove an exciting and rewarding challenge for those looking for a new permanent opportunity
The post require you to be:
- Professional qualification such as DIPSW, CQSW or equivalent required.
- Experience of managing child protection work and have a good working knowledge of children's social work, with a focus on current best practice in through care and aftercare services.
- Professionally qualified and able to motivate and inspire social work teams.
- Able to demonstrate the ability to manage highly complex child protection cases, where demand for the service is high and unpredictable.
- Be good at improving outcomes with partners, managing staff, dealing with risk and workforce issues.
The post holder will directly manage a group of qualified Social Workers and community Resource Workers. You will work closely with the Leadership team to meet the needs of young people in Bradford and be line managed by the Head of Service ( Resources)
In May 2014, Ofsted found the service to be ‘Good’ for looked after, leaving care, adoption and leadership. Child Protection ‘requires improvement’ and there is a robust action plan in place that you, with staff and partners will be supported to deliver.
The successful candidate will benefit from a learning culture with a real commitment and investment in professional development. Our aim is to give you the support, resources and opportunities to fulfil your potential – achieving the best results for the diverse communities we serve.
For further information regarding this post please contact David Byrom 01274 432986 or email david.byrom@bradford.gov.uk
An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertaken for this post.
PLEASE SPECIFY ON YOUR APPLICATION FORM WHICH POST YOU WISH TO APPLY FOR.
Closing Date: 6th September 2016
Please find Job Profiles attached below:-
Service Manager Children and Young People Team JP.pdf
Service Manager Through Care and After Care JP.pdf