Job Introduction
Service Delivery Manager - Children in Care, Children with Disabilities and Care Leavers
Pay Grade - SMG £68,698 per annum
Full time – Permanent - 37 hours per week
We are excited to recruit to the role of Service Delivery Manager responsible for Children in Care, Leaving Care and Children with Disabilities. In Telford and Wrekin we take our role as corporate co-parents seriously as part of our Family First Strategy and in line with the Social Care Reforms. We are committed to ensuring that every child we care for has a stable and loving home. As reflected within our most recent OFSTED report the children we care for experience exceptional social work practice.
We value kinship care and when children cannot be cared for by their birth parents we seek to support the family in identifying members of their relational network who can care for them.
Where this cannot be achieved we are committed to ensuring that care experienced young people have family time with people who are important to them and that these arrangements are adapted over time to suit their needs. We are passionate about involving their wider relational networks within their care wherever possible, including revisiting their relationships as a continuum throughout their care journey.
We seek to preserve the relationships care experienced young people have with their relational network and support these being repaired if they have been ruptured.
We acknowledge that we are caring for children for a period of time until they can return to their relational network and actively seek to review family circumstances. Where this cannot be achieved we seek for care experienced young people to have caring arrangements that involve people they care about and that provide stability, safety, love and security. We pride ourselves on exploring alternative permanency options where the relational network are still considered as a vital part of the child/young person’s life.
We are passionate about hearing from the voices of children and young people we care for to inform their care planning as well as to develop social work practice at a strategic level.
We acknowledge the challenges care experienced young people can face when leaving care and we seek to support them to strive for independence with a local support offer which affords them with continued wrap around support, positive relationships and security.
Unaccompanied asylum seeking children receive exceptionally high quality care at the earliest stage and we work hard to ensure they have positive links with their cultural heritage and support them to build networks.
This role is pivotal and continuing our successes and aiding our aspirations for children we care for, we are seeking a leader who has outstanding communication and relationship building skills, a passion for hearing and listening to the voices of children and young people to aid strategic service development and a value base which reflects the importance of connecting and re connecting children and young people with those who matter most to them. You will lead and role model outstanding practice which continues to motivate practitioners to deliver high quality, inclusive services which is responsive to the needs of young people and champion the role of corporate co-parenting principles across the council. A key part of achieving our aspirations for our children and young people is our practice model which is firmly embedded within systemic and trauma transformative lenses, we are seeking a leader who can model and utilise these principles at a strategic level.
There has never been a more exciting time to join our service after the recent publication of our Ofsted Inspection!
If you think you can meet the challenge and would like to find out more about this role, please see our recruitment web pages or contact us by emailing darren.knibbs@telford.gov.uk (Director of Children's Safeguarding and Family Support).
Please click on the links below to view the job description and person specification.
At Telford & Wrekin Council, we know that having a diverse workforce is key to providing the best possible services to our community. We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice.
Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
A CV template is available if you do not already have a CV.
We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:
* Competitive rates of pay
* Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax efficient Local Government Pension Scheme
* Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes
* Free on-site parking
* Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day
* Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling
* Flexible and mobile working policy - we are well adapted to a hybrid model of working which includes a combination of time spent in the office and at home – our approach is to promote greater level of flexible working around personal and family commitments
* Private lettings are available from ‘Nuplace’ who give priority to social work professional
Find out further information about working at Telford & Wrekin Council including our full list of benefits.
Please note that Telford & Wrekin Council do not hold a sponsorship licence for visas.
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