Service Manager – Targeted Youth Support Service

Interim Service Manager – Targeted Youth Support Service
Reference no: PCC (HQ) PCC17588
Pay Rate: £423.11 per day PAYE
37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
City: PETERBOROUGH
Hybrid working - at least three days per week in the office
Acting as operational lead for the delivery of Council services. Ensure the Young People’s Safeguarding Practice Guidance and service plan are embedded, and services are transformed in line with areas of improvement. Model a motivational approach to working with children, young people and their families that will ensure service improvement, developmental change and adopt an instrumental culture that is required to meet the aims of the service. This post is required to deliver the effective operation of Youth Justice, Young People’s Safeguarding and Contextual/Exploitation
Safeguarding areas of Children’s Social Care. This includes the performance management of the service activity and the co-ordination, planning and delivery of agreed activities and objectives. Act as the initial primary professional within allocated area and to contribute to the development and shape of the provision of Children's’ services. Takes collective and shared responsibility for the effective leadership and management of the Council’s services and delivery of improved outcomes and the achievement of value for money.
Key responsibilities:
Develop a culture of continuous and sustained improvement through effective performance management, including ensuring both Performance and Development Review plans are in place and supervision is of high calibre that promotes a joint responsibility for excellent service provision and performance in line with service and corporate plans.
Deliver on HMIP or Ofsted inspection, audit review and outcomes for the continuous professional development of staff and improvement of the quality of services for which responsible.
Contribute and play an active part in the delivery of service across Children’s Services including the implementation of practice models across Children's Social Care with children and young people who are subject to Youth Justice, Child in Need, Child Protection, Children in Care and Leaving Care Interventions. Setting the performance culture through own behaviour and leadership, which respects diversity and equality of opportunity in service provision and employment.
Report directly to the Head of Service Children’s Social Care.
Advise and report to Youth Justice Management Board, Corporate Parenting Panel, Safeguarding Board, and any other committee and/or relevant board ensuring compliance with statutory and national obligations, whilst promoting effective risk management of the service as a benchmark for other professionals.
Ensure that Team Managers are confident in risk management practice by
Required to remain up to date and compliant with all relevant legislation, organisational procedures, policies and professional codes of conduct in order to uphold standards of practice, which may entail updating policies and procedures and delivering training to satisfy operational requirements.
Build effective relationships with partner organisations to ensure assessments and interventions are timely, responsive and meet need taking into account the child and family's’ views and other professional partners, resulting in more cost effective and valued services. This includes assessments and plans are of high quality to address and meet the need of the child and family/ carer.
Ensure safeguarding procedures are followed and maintained to protect vulnerable children, young people and families.
Ensure threshold escalation, Court and legal proceedings are followed and managed in a timely way including Contextual Safeguarding oversight is rigorously followed to ensure the right interventions and multi-agency plan are implemented.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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