Service Manager

Job Title: Service Manager

Contract: Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £56,100 - £59,100 per annum (dependent on experience) 

Location: Flexible - located across two Local Authorities; Redbridge and Waltham Forest, and homeworking 

Coram Ambitious for Adoption is a commissioned voluntary regional adoption agency that is organised on a hub and spoke service model. The activities of adopter recruitment and assessment of prospective adopters, the panel, child placement support and the overall governance of the regional adoption agency is located at the hub at Coram Campus in Bloomsbury in London.

The Regional Adoption Agency is comprised of Coram as the Voluntary Adoption Agency service provider working alongside participating authorities; City of London, London Boroughs of Bromley, Harrow, Hillingdon, Harrow, Kensington & Chelsea, Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Westminster and Slough Borough Council. The service is focussed on best outcomes for children and building strong support for adoptive families.

This management post is located across the two Local Authorities, to oversee the family finding and post adoption support function operating within the new regional adoption agency services framework. The post holder will engage in the exciting further development of adoption services across the RAA, as well as working closely with each partner local authority to lead on practice development and implement new ways of working to improve planning for children and support to families.

About the role

As the Service Manager for Redbridge and Waltham Forest, you will hold responsibility for the delivery of safe and effective services for children in adoption, in line with the relevant legislation, regulation, policy, research and good practice frameworks and also participate actively in the vision and mission of the regional adoption agency in accordance with the commissioned services and specifications and quality standards of the service. This includes the role of ADM advisor for one of the Boroughs, an excellent role to further develop your own practice development and is very much valued by partner agencies.

You will also promote and develop close and effective relationships within and across relevant local authorities and hold responsibility for the quality assurance of practice and services. You will play a key role in the development of the Coram RAA and have opportunities to develop expertise in the delivery of regional adoption services.

For more information about the main duties and responsibilities of this role please refer to the job description and person specification.

For informal discussion please contact Sally Beaumont, Head of Service at Coram Ambitious for Adoption RAA – 07740745591

To apply for this role, please click on the 'apply now' button below to complete the application.

Closing date: Monday 17th June 2024 at 23:59.

Interview date: Monday 1st July 2024.

Coram is an equal opportunities employer and we believe a diverse workforce enables us to improve the services to the children and families we help. We are genuinely committed to encouraging candidates from all sections of the community we seek to support. This includes those from, Asian, African, Caribbean and other minority ethnic backgrounds, those that identify as LGBQT+, those with disabilities, those with lived experience of care, those with neuro-diversity, and those from other groups who are underrepresented at Coram.

If applicants feel comfortable, we would encourage them to draw on lived experience as well as professional experience in their personal statement as part of their application.

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and where appropriate will require the successful applicant to undertake a check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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