Service Manager - Child Protection Advisors

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Child Protection Advisors Service to work full time for Haringey.

The salary for this Service Manager job is up to £65,478 per annum.

Main duties:

* Be accountable to ensuring the highest professional standards and professional conduct by fostering an environment that promotes rigour through self-reflection, debate and challenge.

* Lead on holding an expectation that decisions are interrogated and underpinned by theory and best evidence that they contribute to the goals of the child and family.

* Demonstrate optimistic behaviour and build positive relationships with children and families and other professionals. Lead by example, showing integrity, creativity, resilience and clarify of purpose.

* Be visible and accessible to all staff, children and families. Promote a culture a culture where poor practice can be challenged stakeholders can feel safe to raise concerns including whistleblowing.

* Prioritise budgets in order to meet demand and ensure quality of service provision. Confidently illustrate the relationship between efficiency, child outcome and financial flexibility so that services can respond to changing need and risk.

* Secure excellent practice through an analytical understanding of different patterns of family functioning matched with service responses which are most likely to effect change for families.

* Recognise the strengths and development needs of your staff, using practice observation, reflection and feedback mechanisms, including the views of children and families.

* Invest available resources into staff and service development drawing on expertise of children and families.

* Create an ethos within which staff are motivated and supported to be ambitious on behalf of children and families.

* Use resources to the best effect and ensure mechanisms are in place to facilitate constant reflective thinking about the welfare of children and their families.

* Build and develop influential and respectful partnerships between practitioners and partner agencies.

* Lead in the application of an ethical approach to the exercise of authority, which develops and maintains relationships with families and professionals and ensure the protection of children.

* Exercise statutory powers where social work assessment shows that families require help and support and children are at risk of significant harm, ensuring that actions are proportionate to risk.

* Ensure the professional network identifies the logic by which children and families are functioning and use this as a basis for effective engagement. Take into account difference, the experience of discrimination and the impact of poverty.

* Recognise the patterns of relationships between professionals, identifying where these are likely to compromise the welfare of families and the safety of children, taking immediate and corrective action.

* Strike a balance between employing a managerial, task-centred approach and an enabling leadership style to achieve efficient day-to-day functioning.

Requirements of this Service Manager job:

* A social Work Qualification or equivalent.

* Understanding of relevant legislation.

* Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact:

This Service Manager job is advertised by Zehnn Young; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.