Early Help Locality Service Manager (East)

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Job Description

The Service & Team:

Join Our Team as an Early Help Service Manager in East Cornwall!

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children and families? Do you have the leadership skills to drive positive change and support our community If so, we want you to be a part of our dynamic team

Position: Early Help Service Manager
Location: East Cornwall
Salary: Competitive, with excellent benefits

We are dedicated to providing exceptional support to children and families in East Cornwall. Our Early Help Service plays a crucial role in ensuring that children and young people receive the right support at the right time, helping them to thrive and achieve their full potential.

What We Offer:

• A supportive and inclusive work environment.
• Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
• The chance to make a real impact in the community.

How to Apply: If you're ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a difference in East Cornwall, we want to hear from you! Apply now and join us in our mission to support children and families.

The Role:

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage a team of dedicated professionals to deliver high-quality early help services.
• Develop and implement innovative strategies to support children and families.
• Collaborate with partners and stakeholders to ensure a coordinated approach to service delivery.
• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of services, ensuring continuous improvement.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

What you'll need to succeed:

Who We're Looking For:

• A passionate and experienced leader/manager with a background in early help and children's services.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• The ability to work collaboratively with a range of partners and stakeholders.
• A commitment to improving outcomes for children and families.

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert

What you'll get in return:

Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our core employee rewards and benefits include:

• a competitive salary.

• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions

• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.

• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme

• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information:

Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The full role profile is attached here

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Gail Cary - gail.cary@cornwall.gov.uk

Application Process

Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here - The application process.

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.