Disability Services Manager

4 weeks ago

Croydon, Greater London, United Kingdom Croydon Council Full time
Service Manager - Children Looked After 0-16

We are seeking a qualified and experienced Service Manager to join our children looked after service. As part of a systemic and trauma-informed service, you will play a critical role in ensuring children receive the best support to help them achieve their aspirations and have an active voice in everything that we do.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead, motivate, manage, supervise, and develop practice for children in care, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development.
  • Experience in legal practice, long-term planning, and considerable experience in adoption practice to lead our Court & Early Permanence team.
  • Lead on Permanence practice & Health needs for children in care across all services.
  • Service Manager experience in managing services for children looked after through to permanence.
  • Experienced in leading and managing performance of team managers, ensuring the cases are allocated effectively in terms of skills and experience suited to the complexity of the case.
  • A clear commitment to services working in partnership with families and creating positive change in young people's lives.
  • Demonstrable experience of leading and managing statutory interventions that are relevant to this service area and role (including high risk and high complexity work), and that deliver high quality performance and good outcomes for children and young people.
  • Able to use performance information to drive improvement for children and young people.
  • Able to produce high quality, analytical and evidence-based reports.
  • Experience of developing high quality services within a statutory setting, with a particular focus on contextualised safeguarding.
  • Able to work outside of normal office hours when required and to be part of the senior manager out-of-hours rota.
What We Offer:
  • Highly competitive compensation package.
  • Accredited Systemic Practice training.
  • 29-31 days (grade equivalent) annual leave in addition to Bank Holidays and option to purchase more.
  • Pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 20%.
  • Continuing Professional Development – genuine opportunities to grow, develop and specialise in your career.
  • Management development programmes.
  • Access to Employee Discount scheme with a range of programmes (Cycle Benefit Scheme, GymFlex, Retail Discounts and more).
  • We promote flexible & hybrid working arrangements where possible to support a healthy work-life balance, office base requirement is 3 days a week minimum.

Croydon Council is an inclusive employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We will be pleased to consider applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised role.

Croydon Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check which allows them to work with children.

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