Service Manager - Leaving Care Service

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Job Description

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Worker Type: Hybrid Worker

Salary: Starting Salary is 53,630.00 (Level one) rising to £56,840 (Level 4) per annum (pro rata for part-time)

Location: Loxley House, Station Street. Nottingham, NG2 3NG

Nottingham is an innovative, vibrant and fast growing city, with our citizens at the heart of everything we do.

Our children and young people make us a youthful, energetic and exciting city, however Nottingham is not without its challenges: like many cities across England we have deprivation and disadvantage, and our workforce is at the forefront of keeping children and young people safe and improving their life chances and outcomes.

Our Children's Integrated Services work together to improve children's lived experiences, keep children safe and help them to live healthy and happy lives.

We are really excited to offer an exciting opportunity to join our innovative Leaving Care Service. The post reports to the Head of Service for Children in Care and Care Leavers and will work closely with our Children's Integrated Services and partner agencies to improve outcomes for our children and young people in Nottingham.

As well as the satisfaction of helping to change lives across Nottingham, we can offer you our award-winning package of Employee Benefits (including salary sacrifice schemes), access to the excellent Local Government Pension Scheme, as well as flexible and remote working, and a commitment to wellbeing and a healthy work - life balance.

Joining Nottingham at this point in our improvement journey will give the right person a unique opportunity to develop their leadership career being creative, innovative and to develop our services and Offer to our Care Leavers. With the new inspection framework for Care Leavers, there has never been a better time to be able to co-create and shape a service that has Care Leavers at the heart of everything we do.

We pride ourselves for our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We strive to have a workforce that reflects our city's diversity, and this is increasingly important in our decision-making senior leadership roles. To help us achieve our ambition for workforce diversity, we particularly want to hear from candidates who are from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic communities or candidates that identify with having a disability as we want our workforce to represent the children at the heart of our communities.

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been looking for, we are excited to hear from you.

* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.

About the Role

Our Care Leavers are some of our most vulnerable children, that's why we are looking for an experienced service manager who really champions our children, has high aspirations for their future, motivates our workforce to put our children at the heart of everything we do whilst understanding the unique challenges a child leaving care experiences and the current national challenges.

We want our young people to have the best life chances and experiences any other young person would have and that's where you come in! You must have a strong background in leading and managing services in a Leaving Care context, be innovative, passionate and demonstrate commitment to our young people.

About You

The ideal candidate will have:

A qualified Social Worker registered with SWE, you will be experienced in delivering leaving care services, you will :

• manage the role, function and business of the Leaving Care Service.
• provide strong leadership and management as part of the core competency framework for Nottingham City Council.
• take responsibility for leading on the development of multi-agency partnership work to promote high quality service provision for care leavers.
• take a strategic lead in ensuring effective pathway planning and provision of services for care leavers.
• contribute to the overall management of the Children's Integrated Services division through membership of the wider senior management team, and represent the service, in regional and national work related to children and young people.

- A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

A detailed knowledge of statutory responsibilities in children's social care and leaving care, and an understanding of the government's agenda for modernising Children's Services is essential to this role, as is an ability to ensure compliance with Ofsted requirements.

You can find the job description for this post here

At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.

For informal enquiries please contact Lisa Spencer, Interim Service Manager, Leaving Care Service via lisa.spencer@nottinghamcity.gov.uk

Closing Date: 6th October 2024

Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Interviews will be held: 16th October 2024

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About Us

Thank you for your interest in working for Nottingham City Council. As one of the largest employers in Nottingham we offer a wide range of roles across a range of services. In return for your skill, drive and commitment to serving the people of Nottingham, we can help you to develop an exciting and rewarding career, with access to the following benefits.

In addition to working within a great team and a competitive salary you will have access to:

• 26 days annual leave (rising to 33 days after 5 years' service) + bank holidays with the ability to buy additional leave annually
• Access to a generous, defined benefit pension scheme offering 17.9%
• Smart Working - to support your work life balance
• Health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted membership at selected local sports and fitness centres, cinema, shopping and much more!

Nottingham City Council is committed to recruiting a talented workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and with different abilities. We recruit for diversity and value difference.

We particularly want to hear from you if you are from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community, identify within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community (LGBT) and if you are Disabled - these groups of people are underrepresented in our workforce, and we'd like to reflect our local population more through our recruitment processes.

We are supportive of flexible working arrangements wherever possible and we would encourage you to discuss this with us during the selection process, should this be something you are interested in.