Children's Services Manager

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? If so, look no further! We are currently seeking a motivated and experienced Children Services Manager to join our team on a Full Time Permanent basis.

The successful candidate will lead a team to help oversee and continually develop all services and work closely with the team managers to ensure quality and effective performance. The Lancashire Young Carers is also operated from this site and will be a new piece of work for the CSM who is successful although it has been an established piece of work for over 12 years in the original Lancashire locality.

• Permanent - Full Time - 37 hours
• Hybrid Role

Some of the Essential requirements

• Demonstrable experience of working with children and young people and in leading others to best practice in the delivery of Children's Services
• Demonstrable record of working constructively with partner agencies, commissioners and other stakeholders, in a way that enhances the reputation of Barnardo's externally
• Demonstrable capability in understanding and managing financial and budgets
• Demonstrable capability to set team and individual objectives, and to coach towards high performance and continuous improvement

Some of the Key Responsibilities include:

• Leadership of staff
• Ensuring recording standards are achieved
• Reporting to commissioners
• Providing information and evidence of achieving key outcomes to the Assistant Director for Children's Services
• Managing resources
• In house training and development days

History of Include Me 2
Include Me 2 has historically offered a wide range of short breaks to children and young people aged 0-18 who have special educational needs and disabilities. The service offers both a short break to parents and quality out of school group sessions to children and young people with sessions for a mixture of pre-school, primary and secondary. The service has 9 Ofsted registered sites across Lancashire and Blackpool.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values . We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.