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Sanctuary Personnel Ltd

Head of Service, Safeguarding & Quality Assurance Team - Rochester - Sanctuary P

Sanctuary Personnel Ltd, Rochester, New York, United States

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Head of Service, Safeguarding & Quality Assurance Team Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Service Manager within the Safeguarding & Quality Assurance Team to work full time based in Medway.

The salary for this permanent Service Manager job is up to £73,241 per annum.

To provide strategic leadership and management for the Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Team within the Children’s Services division, continuously driving improvement and ensuring social work practice and values deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families.

To contribute to the leadership and strategic development of the wider service as a member of the Children’s Services Management Team.

To work in strategic partnership with other agencies and stakeholders, including children, young people and their families to ensure their views inform and shape service delivery and improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.

To be accountable for the service area budget, ensuring effective monitoring and analysing of spend in order to ensure services are delivered safely within budget.

To work with the Deputy Director for Children and Adults to co-ordinate effective strategies to ensure that all children and young people are physically, mentally and emotionally healthy and safe from all forms of maltreatment and neglect.

To understand, explore and interpret good practice and support the Deputy Director for Children and Adults in developing, planning and implementing change in Children’s Services; in order to achieve a culture of continuing improvement that delivers joined-up, high quality services for children and young people, in particular, services for vulnerable children across Medway.

To work with the providers of universal and targeted services across the directorate and with partnership agencies to develop services and strategies to prevent children coming into care.

Work with strategic commissioning colleagues to inform commissioning plans, monitor implementation and deliver specified outcomes that offer value for money.

To seek to maximise income from appropriate sources, including traded services.

Requirements of this Service Manager role:

A Social Work Qualification or equivalent.

Understanding of relevant legislation.

Relevant Social Work experience.

Hold an NVQ Level 5 in Management or Equivalent Management Qualification.

Have Extensive Management Experience Including Management of Change.

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Sanctuary Personnel takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

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