Children's Services Manager

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Birmingham Forward Steps Service (BFS) is an exciting innovative service that delivers an integrated Early Years Health and Well Being Service across Birmingham that brings together the Children's Centre and Health Visiting offer in the city as one integrated service, for children aged 0-5 and their families.

To deliver the contract, Barnardo's has a partnership with a health lead body who have overall responsibility for the contract; Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) and three other voluntary sector organisations (Spurgeon's, The Springfield Project, and St Paul's Community Trust).

The service operates city wide across 10 districts and Barnardo's directly manages 4 of those districts. This service supports children and their families from shortly before birth up to the age of five and provides accessible, community-based services for families with pre-school children through Family Hubs/Children's Centres, their own homes and a number of other community venues.

We are looking to recruit 2 dynamic, experienced, full time Children's Services Managers to manage and lead our BFS services in the Ladywood and Edgbaston Localities.

Duties will include:

• Coordinating delivery across the designated Locality (BFS/Family Hub services)
• Providing leadership and direction
• Responsible for overall performance of the locality in line with contract KPI's
• Maintaining and developing all external partnerships in locality including early help services, health, early years services, voluntary & community sector, and parents/carers.
• Budget holding responsibilities
• Responsibilities for Health and Safety and Safeguarding across the locality
• Line management of the Locality Leadership Team
• Leading network groups and strategies as designated
• Supporting the development/growth of new services and funding streams

The successful candidates must have/be able to demonstrate:

• A professional qualification in a relevant field e.g Early Years, Health, Social Care
• Significant experience of leadership and management for the delivery of integrated services by a multi-disciplinary and multi-functional team and have the skills to lead local partnerships
• Significant experience of staff management / leadership of large multiagency teams
• Experience of financial planning and budget management to the value of at least £1 million pounds per annum to include effective application and compliance with financial procedures
• Significant experience of managing change and delivery of services to a range of stakeholders, including co-production with parents
• Significant experience of the management of complex professional and stakeholder relationships
• Experience of leading the development of innovative new services for children and their families within a diverse community context
• Extensive experience of monitoring and measuring services and achieving improved outcomes for children and families.
• Specific understanding of good practice in delivering Early Years, Health and Social Care services including the legislative and regulatory framework
• Excellent knowledge of child development, and theoretical practice frameworks
• Substantial knowledge of current legislation and procedures relating to the Children's Act, SEND Code of Practice
• Substantial knowledge of Safeguarding and Child Protection
• Skills in using management information systems and computer-based systems

These roles will require you to travel independently across the localities therefore you must be flexible and adaptable, particularly in relation to working hours and location.

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description Job Addendum. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described. Please note, we do not accept CV's.

Due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Should you require any further information regarding this role, please email Adam Cooper, Recruiting Manager: adam.cooper@barnardos.org.uk

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.