Children's Services Manager

4 weeks ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

Role: Childrens Services Manager

Circa Salary: £50,000 per annum

Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear

Contract/Hours: Permanent - Full Time - 37 hours a week

Benefits:

  • 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
  • Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
  • Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
  • Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
  • Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 688,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

A bit about the role:

You will lead a multi-agency team providing Early Help services to children and families in the North of Newcastle. This is an exciting, varied and creative role which works with key partners across Children and Families Newcastle to make a real difference to the lives of children and families. Alongside three other Locality Leads, you will lead the locality response to children, young people and families across Newcastle, designing and developing services and interventions to support the needs of that you see emerging.

How you will help to create brighter futures. 

Our vision is that every child and young person in the country has a safe and happy childhood. To help us achieve this, you will:

  • Manage and lead a team of professional Early help and support staff.
  • Develop and establish effective working relationships with our key partners across Children and Families Newcastle - Social workers, education, health as well as children and parents themselves
  • Manage budget and service performance
  • Manage buildings and hubs to support service delivery

Let's talk about you, the 'must-haves' are: 

  • The ability to lead, motivate and manage.
  • A qualification relevant to the services within the remit of this post.
  • Strong IT, organisation and service development skills
  • Experience in managing family support and parenting services, including co-design with children and young people.
  • Experience of managing a service and responding flexibly and creatively to emerging need
  • Experience of analysing data and management information to support continual service improvement and development.
  • The ability to travel as required.

Good to know.

Application Process

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Diversity, equality, and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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