Service Manager - Youth Services - Sanctuary Personnel : Job Details

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Youth Service Team to work full time based in Haringey.The salary for this permanent Service Manager  job is up to £61,491 per annum.Main duties:

• The post holder has line management responsibility for a Social Work area where there is line management responsibility for Practice Managers, Senior Practitioners, Social Workers, Information Sharing Researchers and Administrators.
• To be responsible for effective management of Team Managers and other practice staff as required and to provide accountability for the delivery of services to children, young people and their families.
• Ensures that there is effective management of childcare services, including judgement of risk to individual families and children, within the Service and across agencies. This may on occasion include managing staff in different locations.
• To manage staff from other disciplines and agencies as may be required as part of delivering multi-disciplinary services.
• To manage, develop and continuously review services for the client group in partnership with others, in order to promote the provision of good quality, best value services for local residents.
• To ensure that all staff and managers receive regular, high quality, challenging and reflective supervision and performance appraisal according to departmental and council policy and guidance.
• To identify staff learning and developments needs and ensure high standards and that team members’ expertise and special skills are developed (through the use of supervision, appraisal and standard setting.
• To ensure record keeping across the teams is consistently of a high standard and that managerial decisions are taken and record promptly within the appropriate frameworks.
• Makes decisions, co-ordinates and directs staff in making decisions to achieve positive outcomes for children and their families within a single and multi-agency care planning framework.
• To ensure that all staff are appropriately trained to the required standards of competence in the use of industry standards applications such as Microsoft Office as well as electronic social care record systems.
• To undertake any other duties consistent with the basic objectives and duties of the post.

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 Stefan Garrett; 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.