Service Manager – Fostering & Adoption Team

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Fostering & Adoption Team to work full time based in Medway.

The salary for this Service Manager job is up to £59,681 per annum.

Main duties:

• 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 service 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 implementation of Signs of Safety as a practice model by role modelling this in meetings, interactions with staff and supervision.
•  Manage service budgets efficiently and effectively in order 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 Services to ensure staffing levels are maintained.
• Incorporate the directorate policies relating to equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice into everyday working practice and to challenge discrimination and prejudice whenever it occurs.
• Complete audits (and quality assurance 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 time ensuring the service is good and 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 Manager as and when required.
• At the discretion of the Head of Service, such other activities as may from time to time be agreed in line with the nature of the job described above.

Requirements of this Service Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Service Manager job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.

Global Healthcare Jobs 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, Global Healthcare Jobs 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.