Bcft Service Manager - Placement Support Service

BCFT Service Manager - Placement Support Service (SMPSS1312)

Bradford Children and Families Trust

Childrens Services

 BCFT Service Manager - Placement Support Service

This is a rare opportunity for you to put your leadership skills to the test. It’s your chance to contribute and make an impact through your creativity, innovation and desire to drive forward practice improvement.

 Salary: £56,595 - £60,303

Hours: 37 

Contract: Permanent 

Base: Sir Henry Mitchell House (however subject to change)

Holidays: Up to 32 days holiday + 8 bank holidays a year   

Excellent Pension: Defined benefit scheme with 16.8% employer contribution    

Career Progression: Tailored training and development opportunities   

Professional Support: Regular supervision and annual appraisals, payment of professional fees   

Closing Date: 31 January 2024

Interviews:  Week beginning of February 2024.

About Us:

Bradford Children and Families Trust was established in April 2023 to bring a step change in the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district. Our purpose is clear - to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination and resilience – but under a new Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we’ll achieve our ambition.

Working for the Bradford Children and Families trust offers the opportunity to work with great people who are passionate about delivering change in a city whose culture offers as much diversity as it’s geography.

The challenges you’ll face are diverse and complex. We’ll look to you to lead the operational side of the service, delivering good outcomes and supporting long-term aspirational plans for permanence.

We need a courageous leader who puts ‘the child’ at the heart of every decision. Someone who enthusiastically embraces change, thrives on challenge and tackles the most complex needs with drive and determination to ensure the best outcomes for the children and young people of Bradford.

Key deliverables:

•           To have overall responsibility for the leadership and management of your team.

•           Ensure that placements sourced for children and care leavers are of sufficient quality and are sourced in line with the District’s commissioning and quality assurance arrangements.

•           Build and sustain effective working partnerships across statutory services alongside commission and procurement services to meet the holistic needs of our children.

•           Provide strong leadership to the service area working alongside your colleagues to develop effective communication and to ensure continued service development.

•           Support your Head of Service to ensure that the service area is subject to effective financial and budget management.

•           Achieve local and national targets by managing performance and ensuring continual progress and improvement.

If you would like to contact us with any questions about the role, please do not hesitate to contact Amandip Johal on 07773 248 040 or by e-mailing amandip.johal@bradfordcft.org.uk / Pamela Stanyon-Carr on 07890420872 or by e-mailing pamela.stanyon-carr@bradfordcft.org.uk

Please apply online and submit your CV and a supporting statement (no more than 4 sides of A4) expressing why you are interested in this role and what experience you bring to the role. The statement should also set out how you meet the specific requirements. 

An enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service will be undertake for this post

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Job Profile

Closing Date: 17th Dec 2023