Service Manager

It is an exciting time to join Sheffield Children’s Services!

We are a city with a stable workforce, who are skilled confident and committed to children and families in Sheffield. One of our strengths is listening to our children, to our workforce – Do you want to be a part of this?

We are recruiting to a number of full and part time Service Manager Roles within the city, are you motivated to lead innovations and aspire to achieve the best for children? Are you committed to supporting an environment where are workforce feel safe and supported to provide the highest quality support?

If the answer is yes then talk to us about the amazing opportunities we have.

We are looking for candidates who possesses strategic and operational leadership skills and experience to support team members to deliver and drive service quality forward, so that together we make a real difference to the lives of children and young people in Sheffield.

Sheffield is a great city and our Corporate Delivery Plan | Sheffield City Council focuses on what makes Sheffield a unique, impressive and inspiring city with a clear vision for Sheffield children and young people to be safe and supported to achieve their full potential. We are pursuing bold plans for transformation, facing the challenges of making efficiencies and modernising how we work, so that we deliver high performing, quality services to children and young people.

You need to be social work qualified and registered with Social Work England and have extensive experience of direct work with children and young people in a frontline statutory setting. You will have a thorough knowledge of relevant legislation including up-to-date knowledge of the proposed children’s social care reform, policies and procedures. You will be creative and motivated to continue to support our excellent services and have both management experience and specialist knowledge in this area of work. Embedding the voice of the child within your service must be one of your priority values.

You will be joining a dynamic senior management team and working closely with other Provider Services in Sheffield Children and Families services.

For further information or a discussion about these roles please contact becky.towle@sheffield.gov.uk

Close Date: 04/2/24

Assessment Activities 21 or 22 February 2024

Final Interviews week commencing 4 March 2024

Here is what Ofsted reported:

“Workers spoke very positively about working for Sheffield, and having good management support by managers and senior managers who are accessible for advice and decision-making. Having manageable workloads was valued by staff, which makes it possible for them to do meaningful work with children. Staff have access to good-quality training opportunities and a career progression pathway, which is valued by them and contributes to the high social work retention rate.” Plans for permanence are identified at the earliest opportunity for most children. There are effective arrangements in place for quality assuring and tracking these plans to minimise drift and delay. Where drift is identified, there is evidence of effective challenge from independent reviewing officers (IROs) and senior managers. A range of permanence options are considered for children. Sensitive work is completed with children to gain their views and help them to understand and prepare for their permanent home “.

Ofsted Inspection October 2022

Key Benefits of working in Sheffield:

• Annual leave 26 days per year plus public holidays, rising to 31 days after 5 years’ service. Opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days per year leave.
• At least 3 days per year dedicated for Continuous Professional Development with excellent career progression routes including leadership and management University courses.
• Up to 6 days paid carers leave is available for those with caring responsibility.
• Relocation package up to £7,494 towards costs if you need to relocate.
• Hybrid and flexible working
• Employee assistance programme providing valuable advice on a range of issues such as personal finances, counselling sessions and legal advice.
• Generous Local government pension scheme
• Discounts off Vodafone, Westfield Health and Public transport
• Salary sacrifice employee car lease scheme and city car club
• Cycle to work scheme and free eye-sight tests
• Affordable housing and within 10 minutes’ drive of the Peak District

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

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