Service Leader Residential and Support Services
MB2 (£57,553 - £65,882)
37 hours, Full-Time
Permanent
Hybrid: Children’s Homes/Central House Offices and homeworking depending on the needs of the service.
Application Deadline: 8 April 2025 11:59pm
Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
Shortlisting Date: 9 April 2025
Interview Date: 29 April 2025
Interview Type: Face to Face
Your Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Stockport Family Children social care senior management team working together to make a real difference to the lives of children and families.
The Service Lead Residential and Support Services has the strategic lead for the development and delivery of Stockport’s children’s homes, supported accommodation and support services, such as edge of care and family time services.
The postholder will provide effective leadership of the workforce and operations, in a manner that delivers a good standard of quality care and support that best meets children and family’s needs working closely with locality teams and wider professionals.
The postholder will further provide ongoing leadership and development for the service that is creative and ambitious including the opening of new registered provisions and Ofsted compliance to deliver against the council’s sufficiency plan.
About You
We are seeking a highly motivated, creative and skilled service leader to join our leadership team to support our residential and support services to deliver outstanding care and support for our children.
You will be experienced in management and leadership in residential children’s and support settings and have a proven track record of delivering high quality services for children. You will join an experienced leadership team and be supported to lead and drive our plans to build our Stockport Families First (edge of Care) Service and Family Time team offers.
About Us
Working to the Council’s values and behaviours by:
* Keeping the people of Stockport at the heart of what we do
* Succeeding as a team, collaborating with colleagues and partners
* Driving things forward with ambition, creativity and confidence
* Showing value and respect to our colleagues, partners and customers.
At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We’re keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.
We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.
If you would like to find out more about the role please contact Jeanette Warburton jeanette.warburton@stockport.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.
The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
This post is politically restricted under the terms of the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act. This dictates that you must seek the council’s permission before taking up any additional appointments or positions.
Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed an interview if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.
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