Service Leader – Permanence

Service Leader – Permanence

A Service Leader post has become available in Royal Greenwich Children’s Children in Care and Care Leavers Service. This senior position is a vital one where you will have responsibility for the social work leadership of four discrete statutory services – Fostering, Kinship Care, Adoption and our * two Children’s Home; and involves direct line-management of the respective team leaders. In addition, the role includes the lead on Private Fostering Arrangements, Special Guardianship Support, and monitoring of service-related commissioning arrangements.

We invite you to embrace a leadership style that motivates and empowers others to ensure consistently high standards and performance and that champions positive change for our children and young people, whilst upholding our robust corporate parenting ethos.

The ideal candidate should also demonstrate the ability to manage resources including staffing, financial, information and IT; whilst also making professional decisions about individual cases that have significant implications for the care and permanency arrangements for children. 

You will hold various lead roles and, in a position, to influence best practice initiatives and innovative ways of improving the health, welfare and development outcomes for children in Royal Greenwich.

You will also be required to work across the wider service, including providing cover and supporting services throughout Children’s Services Directorate.

If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, then please complete the online application stating how you meet the Person Specification requirements and showing why you are suitable for the role.

 Please view the attached Job Profile for the key requirements for this role and address these when completing your supporting statement.

 Closing date: 27th March 2024

For an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Ishara Tewary;    ishara.tewary@royalgreenwich.gov.uk     020 8921 2761  

If you require any assistance in viewing or accessing this opportunity, please contact recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk or call 020-8921-8977

Safer recruitment: Royal Borough of Greenwich is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Any roles which involve working with children, young people or vulnerable adults, or roles in which the duties will involve access to sensitive information relating to children, young people or vulnerable adults, the Royal Borough will take up references prior to interview. You should provide details of referees including your current and previous employers, covering the last 5 years. Candidates can request for us not to send a reference request to their current employer prior to interview by emailing us at recruitment@royalgreenwich.gov.uk.

As part of our Safer Recruitment Policy, a full employment history is also required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment. Unless otherwise stated, a Basic DBS check will be undertaken as part of the pre-employment checks for successful candidates.

Diversity Statement: Royal Borough of Greenwich values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this. We therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community.

High Volume Applications: Royal Borough of Greenwich reserves the right to close any vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date should there be a high volume of applications received.

DBS: This role requires an Enhanced DBS. (This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act,1974).

Advert Close: All vacancies close at midnight unless otherwise stated.

Full Employment History: A full employment history is required for this role. Please provide a full employment history, together with a satisfactory written explanation of any gaps in employment.

How Applications are Scored: Each application is scored according to how well the supporting statement addresses each point on the Person Specification for the role. Candidates will be short-listed for interview on the extent to which they meet the specific points within the Person Specification. The Person Specification is supplied with the job advert. When completing your application, please use the supporting statement section to tell us how you meet each of the points on the Person Specification. We need to have this information in order to consider your application.

Interview Arrangements: During this time, our priority for all of our recruitment activity is to make sure our applicants, hiring departments and new starters are informed, safe and supported. Careful and thorough consideration will be given to interview arrangements and for any essential in-person recruitment, we will ensure this is held in a suitable, secure setting with additional arrangements to ensure any current safety requirements are fully adhered to.

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