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Service Manager
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**Salary: Up to £53,524 + £7,000 market premia + £3,000 retention payment paid annually after 1 years’ service**
**ABOUT THE ROLE**:
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a stable working environment with experienced leadership, whilst receiving regular supervision and training opportunities. Medway ensures that their social workers have as much support as possible, helping them tokeep a really good work life balance
**ACCOUNTABILITIES**:
- Lead, manage and motivate staff, ensuring high quality professional supervision and performance development plans are completed which enhance individuals personal and professional development needs and contribute towards staff retention.
- Manage and oversee the performance of the team effectively using available performance data to ensure compliance with practice standards and procedures. This will include contributing to management meetings on performance. Lead and manage the implementationof Signs of Safety as a practice model by role modelling this in meetings, interactions with staff and supervision.
- Manage team budgets efficiently and effectively to ensure expenditure does not exceed the agreed budget limits. Support the safer recruitment and selection of new staff, both within the team and across Children’s Social Care to ensure staffing levels aremaintained.
- Incorporate the directorate policies relating to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice into everyday working practice and to challenge discrimination and prejudice wherever this occurs.
- Complete audits (and other quality assurance activities against the performance indicators) to ensure Medway is a learning organisation that continues to deliver evidence-based practice delivering the right support, to the right family at the right timeensuring the service is good to outstanding in their practice.
- Keep up to date with the Council’s organisational policies, government guidance, legislation, research, and national trends in order to maintain the highest professional standards.
- Chair meetings, lead working parties, take responsibility for key areas of service development, and represent the service as required. Deputise and support the Head of Service and cover for other Group Managers as and when required. Participate in the seniormanagement on call rota.
- To actively promote work life balance and flexible working to achieve high quality service delivery.
- To actively promote the Council's Fair Access, Diversity and Inclusion Policy and observe the standard of conduct which prevents discrimination taking place.
- To ensure full compliance with the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, the Council's Health, and Safety Policy and all locally agreed safe methods of work.
- To fully understand and be aware of the commitment to Section 17 of the duty of Crime and Disorder Act 1998 to prevent crime and disorder. At the discretion of the Head of Service, such other activities as may from time to time may be agreed consistentwith the nature of the job described above.
**SKILLS**:
- Demonstrable ability to build sound, productive working relationships with colleagues, partners, and employees. Demonstrable ability to write high quality written reports which are suitable for a variety of professional settings.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, consultation and influencing skills tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of audiences and stakeholders.
- Ability to drive forward service improvements and manage change successfully.
**KNOWLEDGE**:
- Substantial knowledge and experience of working with vulnerable children in a statutory setting.
**QUALIFICATIONS**:
- Qualified Social Worker with post qualifying training.
- Registration with Social Work England
- Management qualification or evidence of appropriate experience and willingness to undergo training.
