Service Manager, Adolescent Safeguarding-

Service Manager – Adolescent Safeguarding

• £450 per day
• Midlands
• Full time, interim
• Hybrid working

About the role:

Adolescent Safeguarding Service manager
 
our client has implemented Family Safeguarding Practice across children’s services. It is a strengths-based, whole-family approach to child protection, bringing together individual multi-disciplinary teams comprising of professionals from children’s and adult services to work intensively with families to reduce the number of children entering into care or becoming subject to child protection planning.
 
Family Safeguarding Practice moves the focus from monitoring compliance to engaging with families in a strengths-based way and producing meaningful change through Motivational Interviewing, a person-centred therapeutic way of practicing designed to harness and enhance readiness for change. 
 
The Adolescent Safeguarding service is continuing to drive improvements and practice development to embed the family safeguarding model into our practice with adolescent children and their families. We have secured additional resourcing on a secondment basis to continue to drive performance and improvement within Adolescent safeguarding.
 
We are looking for a confident and passionate manager to act as a service manager through a secondment opportunity. As the service improvement service manager, you will drive performance across the adolescent safeguarding service, ensuring that the voice of the child and family group decision making is at the heart of our work, alongside creative, innovated and child centred planning, to keep children of all ages safe.
We are looking for a candidate who has proven track experience in developing and managing partnerships and leading teams to help our children and families reach their aspirations and goals. The right candidate will manage a range of resources and budgets and be creative in delivering services which positively impact on the outcomes our children and young people and their families aspire to achieve.
 
Key priorities for the role include:

• Service management oversight of care planning and management of care plans for children
• Strategic support and oversight of development and improvement in the service
• Oversight of MACE/ exploitation panels and responses
• Management support to existing TMs and SMs
• Support and oversight in terms of Legal pathways for children open within the service
• Practice improvement and development in terms of management oversight and practice with families and children.
• Support to relaunch family safeguarding principles and practice within adolescent safeguarding
• Support to the service with regards to OFSTED preparedness and readiness.

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