Service Unit Manager (Leaving Care)
| Posting date: | 17 December 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 January 2025 |
| Location: | Tameside, OL6 7SG |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75672718 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade K. Scale 44 - £53,964 to Scale 47 - £58,174
Hours Per Week: 36
Base Location: Ashton Old Library, Old Street, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 7SG
Assessment Date: To be arranged
The Role
We have a fantastic opportunity available for someone looking to take the next step in their career.
We are recruiting to the position of Service Unit Manager for our Leaving Care Service in Tameside. This represents a real opportunity for the right person to help us to achieve our ambitions through inspirational leadership and a passion and ambition to support young people who are care leavers and care experienced to achieve and work towards independence. The role requires effective partnership working with a broad range of agencies and organisations and a determined focus on placing young people at the heart of what we do.
This is a key role and will provide day to day leadership and strategic support whilst taking overall day to day operational managerial oversight for a very busy service. You will manage four team managers who each have a staff team and discrete areas of service development focus.
About You
We are looking for candidates with relevant social work qualification and successful track record of managing a social work team in a public service organisation. You will be an effective leader with a determination to raise standards and achieve improved outcomes, as well as a clear and lateral thinker, able to be an affective decision-maker in a complex and challenging environment.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. This post requires an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 2550 or deborah.smolka-obrien@tameside.gov.uk
Reference Number: DPT507
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