Team Manager Supporting Families Service

Job description

Team Manager - Supporting Families Service. Bradford

Lead Change for Families Across Bradford

At Barnardo's, we believe in children, young people and families. Every day, we work alongside communities and partners to help families overcome challenges, strengthen relationships and achieve positive, sustainable change.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Team Manager to join our Supporting Families Service, leading Barnardo's contribution to the Bradford Voluntary and Community Sector Supporting Families Partnership.

This is a key leadership role within a well-established and highly regarded service that supports families through Bradford's Early Help offer. Working alongside Bradford Children and Families Trust and partner agencies, you will play an important role in ensuring families receive the right support at the right time.

What You'll Be Doing

As Team Manager, you will lead and support a team of Family Help Key Workers and Family Aide Workers delivering targeted and intensive family support across Bradford District.

You will:

• Provide effective leadership, supervision and support to a team of practitioners.

• Ensure safeguarding remains central to all service delivery.

• Oversee casework, risk management and quality assurance activity.

• Monitor service performance, outcomes and contractual targets.

• Support continuous improvement through audit, reflective practice and learning.

• Build strong relationships with Bradford Children and Families Trust, commissioners and multi-agency partners.

• Contribute to service development and the ongoing transformation of Family Help services across the district.

• Promote a strengths-based, restorative and solution-focused culture throughout the service.

About You

We are looking for an experienced manager who is passionate about improving outcomes for children and families and who can inspire and develop others.

You will have:

• Significant experience working with children, young people and families.

• Experience of supervising, managing and developing staff.

• Strong knowledge of safeguarding, child development and family support practice.

• Experience of partnership working within multi-agency environments.

• The ability to analyse performance information and use data to drive improvement.

• Excellent communication, organisational and decision-making skills.

• A commitment to Barnardo's values and to achieving the best possible outcomes for families.

Experience of Early Help, Family Help, Supporting Families or wider children's services would be particularly advantageous.

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

For Fostering & Adoption services, we have the use of transcription tool Beam Notes

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.