Achieving for Children
Location
Twickenham, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified (Kingston & Richmond)
Location : Guildhall Complex, Achieving for Children
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:15
Salary: £42.00
The Service Manager function will provide stability, leadership and management of our SPA. This will include maintaining and developing working relationships with partner agencies, ensuring robust processes in the SPA that provide timely and effective decision making, reviewing the MASH process and monitoring the performance within the service. The role holder will work with other managers to achieve the best partnerships to support the work as well as staff performance with the expectation to set, review, praise and address performance across the service area.
The role is located at our Kingston offices. We enable flexible working.
About the role
The Service Manager for the Single Point of Access will provide strategic and operational leadership to the following multi-agency practitioners within SPA.
Social work qualified practitioners of various experience.
Contact information officers & Business Support
The Return Home Service
Multi agency safeguarding Hub – MASH, which included police, CAMHS, Housing, Education, Health as well as virtual partners from schools, probation, adults
The Contextual Safeguarding lead for vulnerable children where the risk posed is extra familial.
Leading and supervising the AfC SPA team, the Service manager for SPA will have a major contribution to make to the delivery of Achieving for Children’s vision and the priorities set out in our Business Plan.
Responsibilities:
Managing, reviewing, monitoring and developing the service area the role is responsible for.
Providing line management, leadership advice and support to all staff in the designated service to maintain and improve performance.
Ensuring tasks are allocated, reviewed, monitored and progressed in a timely and consistent way protects the welfare and safety of all children and young people.
Ensuring local procedures, policies and protocols are adhered to, reflect legislation, statutory guidance and leading practice, and are well understood by practitioners.
Managing resources effectively.
Take part in the Emergency Duty manager rota
About you: our role specification
Qualifications
Educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification in social work.
Active Social Work England registration and proven evidence of continuing professional development.
PEPS
Skills and experience
Extensive experience of management within children’s social care.
Current and working knowledge of contextual safeguarding
Strong experience of chairing/monitoring complex multi agency and multi-professional meetings.
Knowledge of relevant theory that informs practice delivery.
Confident and experienced in building strong partnerships, maintaining relationships and co-producing solutions to challenges across a diverse set of stakeholders, including children, young people and their families. Advocating the voices of those we are working with.
Proven ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making.
Proven experience of keeping and maintaining records (in accordance with local policy) and producing accurate reports, presentations, written updates to a range of stakeholders (which may include families, children or young people).
Knowledge of statutory legislation (for example The Children Act) and national policy drivers that will affect children’s services.
A proven track record as a successful leader within the public sector.
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