Deputy Service Manager - First Assessment Service
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Job description
Deputy Service Manager - First Assessment Service (Bristol)
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of children and safeguarding their future? We are seeking an experienced Deputy Service Manager to join our First Assessment Service in Bristol, providing leadership and support to deliver high-quality services for children and families.
Role Overview:
As Deputy Service Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing and enhancing the First Assessment Service, working closely with the Service Manager to ensure timely, effective interventions for children and families in need. You will lead a team of up to five Team Managers/Deputies/Extra Familial Harm Leads, ensuring the service meets the needs of children, young people, and families, particularly those requiring urgent protection or care.
In addition to providing operational oversight and strategic development, you will support the Service Manager in managing budgets, workforce, and performance, while upholding the highest standards of social care practice.
The First Assessment Service is the primary point of access for children in need of help and protection across the city. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of Extra Familial Harm and Edge of Care services, whilst supporting the on-going functions of the existing service. You will collaborate with the existing Service Manager and Deputy Service Manager to deliver high-quality, responsive services for children.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Families First transformation supporting us to expand our services in 2025. This is so that we can support children and families at the earliest point, whilst also providing intensive support to children and families when they need it, whether this be at a family help level requiring additional multi agency support or a specialist help level where children and families need that intensive intervention or for children in our care.
Our neighbourhood model and our new specialist teams will enable our family support workers, key workers and social workers to have the recommended number of children allocated to them that will enable them to deliver intensive support whilst also being supported by our new specialist teams when there is harm outside the home and or a child is at risk of needing to come into our care.
As we move into the new year, we are looking forward to building on the brilliant work our teams already do with children by expanding our services to create the conditions for our teams to feel supported, have the time they need to work intensively with children and families, access good training, feel psychologically safe and listened too, whilst experiencing healthy challenge to thrive in their roles in our joint vision with children and families. We will continue our commitment of working with integrity, honesty, kindness, transparency, collaboration and family led decision making as we build on what we do well and learn together to develop our work further.
" We will help families to achieve the change they want to see for themselves and their children. We believe that children should live with their family or someone who knows them best. We act when children need to be protected from harm and we do everything we can to make sure that children in our care and care leavers are set up for life"
What We Offer
Enjoy a competitive rewards package, featuring flexible working, competitive pay, an exceptional Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. Explore more about our benefits on our social work microsite here
Application:
If you are a dedicated manager/leader with a commitment to improving the lives of vulnerable children and families, we would love to hear from you.
It is Bristol City Council's practice to request references for candidates that have been offered a job. However, if you are applying for a job that requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check then we will request your references once you have been invited to an interview.
We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.
Contact Us:
For more information or to discuss opportunities, contact: recruitment.socialwork@bristol.gov.uk
At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Young people, Black and racially minoritised, Disabled, LGBTQ+ and Male candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit.