Strategic Manager: Cared for Children and Care Experienced Young Adults

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Strategic Manager  to work full time based in Cared for Children and Care Experienced Young Adults in Northampton.

The salary for this permanent Strategic Manager  job is up to £88,501

Main Duties:

• To provide and practice strategic leadership, management and advice on all issues related to cared for children and care experienced young adults in Northamptonshire Children’s Trust
• To support the development and delivery of children’s services’ vision, values and strategic objectives for children and young people, and their parents and carers, taking a lead role on the development of relevant strategies, policies, procedures, programmes and projects across Children Services and professional agencies including the Integrated Care System
• To manage the budget for Children in Care and Leaving Care Services and contribute to the budget setting and the coming in on target
• To chair relevant panels and attend and contribute to the Quality Assurance Board and Corporate Parenting Board, and any other forums as and when required
• Write and present reports detailing work of the service to all management meetings and committees as and when necessary; to report to elected councillors when required
• To work strategically with multi-agency partners, elected members and other key stakeholders including voluntary organisations to promote corporate parenting responsibilities and establish and maintain joint working policies and practices, understanding and assessing significant risk for any decisions made with the aim of enabling the achievement of positive outcomes for children, young people and young adults
• Ensure effective participation and appropriate involvement of cared for children and care experienced young adults in the planning and development of services that meet their needs
• To oversee all areas of service performance and support staff to achieve practice that is of excellent quality and evidence based, underpinned by Signs of Safety practice model with the voice of the child evident in all service delivery and that staff are appropriately developed and supported
• To support other areas of the Children’s Trust as required and provide management and advice on all issues related to cared for children and care experienced young adults in Northamptonshire Children’s Trust

Requirements of this job:

• Social Work Degree or equivalent (DipSW, CQSW, CSS)
• Social Work England (SWE) Registration
• Knowledge of UK legislation relevant to children and families
• Experience of working with children, young people, and their families

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications from social worker, senior social worker, advanced practitioner, senior practitioner, deputy team manager, team manager, service manager, head of service and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

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.

Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews.