Service Manager – Targeted Youth Support Service
| Posting date: | 13 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £423.11 per day |
| Additional salary information: | per day PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | PETERBOROUGH, PE2 8TY |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | PCC (HQ) PCC17588 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Interim Service Manager – Targeted Youth Support Service
Reference no: PCC (HQ) PCC17588
Pay Rate: £423.11 per day PAYE
37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
City: PETERBOROUGH
Hybrid working - at least three days per week in the office
Acting as operational lead for the delivery of Council services. Ensure the Young People’s Safeguarding Practice Guidance and service plan are embedded, and services are transformed in line with areas of improvement. Model a motivational approach to working with children, young people and their families that will ensure service improvement, developmental change and adopt an instrumental culture that is required to meet the aims of the service. This post is required to deliver the effective operation of Youth Justice, Young People’s Safeguarding and Contextual/Exploitation
Safeguarding areas of Children’s Social Care. This includes the performance management of the service activity and the co-ordination, planning and delivery of agreed activities and objectives. Act as the initial primary professional within allocated area and to contribute to the development and shape of the provision of Children's’ services. Takes collective and shared responsibility for the effective leadership and management of the Council’s services and delivery of improved outcomes and the achievement of value for money.
Key responsibilities:
Develop a culture of continuous and sustained improvement through effective performance management, including ensuring both Performance and Development Review plans are in place and supervision is of high calibre that promotes a joint responsibility for excellent service provision and performance in line with service and corporate plans.
Deliver on HMIP or Ofsted inspection, audit review and outcomes for the continuous professional development of staff and improvement of the quality of services for which responsible.
Contribute and play an active part in the delivery of service across Children’s Services including the implementation of practice models across Children's Social Care with children and young people who are subject to Youth Justice, Child in Need, Child Protection, Children in Care and Leaving Care Interventions. Setting the performance culture through own behaviour and leadership, which respects diversity and equality of opportunity in service provision and employment.
Report directly to the Head of Service Children’s Social Care.
Advise and report to Youth Justice Management Board, Corporate Parenting Panel, Safeguarding Board, and any other committee and/or relevant board ensuring compliance with statutory and national obligations, whilst promoting effective risk management of the service as a benchmark for other professionals.
Ensure that Team Managers are confident in risk management practice by
Required to remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation, organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold standards of practice, which may entail updating policies and procedures and delivering training to satisfy operational requirements.
Build effective relationships with partner organisations to ensure assessments and interventions are timely, responsive and meet need taking into account the child and family's’ views and other professional partners, resulting in more cost effective and valued services. This includes assessments and plans are of high quality to address and meet the need of the child and family/ carer.
Ensure safeguarding procedures are followed and maintained to protect vulnerable children, young people and families.
Ensure threshold escalation, Court and legal proceedings are followed and managed in a timely way including Contextual Safeguarding oversight is rigorously followed to ensure the right interventions and multi-agency plan are implemented.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
Preferably educated to degree level. Management qualification or demonstrable continuous professional development is this area
Current HCPC registration and responsibility for maintaining registration as well as the requirement to undertake post qualifying training and maintain records of training in line with HCPC requirements.
Knowledge:
An expert knowledge in respect of complex young people’s services including adolescent safeguarding, exploitation, youth justice and contextual safeguarding.
Knowledge of how to recognise political context of social care and respond appropriately at management level.
Sound and accurate IT knowledge of both standard IT applications and Social Care software for example producing reports and monitoring budgets.
An expert understanding of the legislative and regulatory regime of multi-agency statutory children’s services and the designated specialist portfolio for the role, together with an understanding of the framework within which Local Authorities operate.
A comprehensive understanding of the current issues and challenges facing local government as well as the statutory framework governing the sector.
Experience:
Experience of leading change within an organisation, with evidence of establishing a positive performance culture within teams and a personal commitment to diversity in the shaping of service outcomes.
Leadership and management experience within a relevant service context and an in-depth understanding of social care, including relevant specialist areas.
A track record of achievement within the relevant specialist area in a complex organisation, including effective decision-making, policy development, design and delivery of services and projects, including multi-professional working.
A demonstrable track record in performance management and evidence of partnership working to secure good performance.
Working at a senior level within a large and complex organisation with comparable scope, responsibilities, budget, and resources.
Providing balanced strategic advice and guidance in a political setting.
Leading the delivery of public services with competing priorities and demands often outside of the Council’s direct control.
Leading transformational change and creating innovative service models, particularly in response to the demands of an organisation that is undergoing a radical transformation and modernisation.
Delivering complex projects on time and within budget and outcomes.
Skills & Abilities:
Skills in understanding and responding to different perspectives and taking a cross-organisational approach, gained by working in a political or similarly challenging environment.
Highly developed influencing and negotiation skills to operate at a strategic professional and political level, locally and nationally.
Skills to provide creative solutions to complex problems together with high level analytical, presentational and communication skills.
Ability to establish and sustain positive relationships that generate confidence, ability and trust.
Ability to lead, develop and sustain effective team, partnership and multi-agency working through strong effective advocacy, influencing and negotiating skills.
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Job Ref: PCC (HQ) PCC17588
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