Service Manager - Family, Friends and Fostering

Salary: £61,672
Grade: Level 5, Zone 2
Location: Crowndale Centre, 218 Eversholt Street, London, NW1 1BD
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours per week: 36, Full Time
Closing date: Sunday 12th July 2026; 23:55

About Camden

Camden is listening to everyone, including you. We’re giving a platform to people inside and outside our community. Because, we’re not just home to the UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. In this role, you’ll take operational management responsibility for the Care Provisions Service.

What You’ll Be Doing

Camden Children’s Safeguarding and Social Work are looking for a highly motivated and influential Service Manager to manage and co-ordinate the work in the Care Provisions service, making appropriate use of resources to ensure the provision of a high quality, comprehensive and effective service to children, young people and their families. You will take operational management responsibility for the Resources, Fostering, Permanence and Kinship section of the service, ensuring delivery of high quality, inclusive services, responsive to the needs of service users and the wider community and that address the safeguarding needs of children and young people in Camden.

If you have the drive and commitment to take that step on your chosen career path we would love to hear from you.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS.

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All About You

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of the legislative framework relating to children and care leavers, fostering, adoption, kinship and care settings. You will be able to effectively use and translate statutory, community, voluntary and independent resources within the context of government legislation, Council and departmental policy in order to enhance best practice and contribute to better outcomes for adults and care leavers.

This will be coupled with experience of people management and team building skills (including managing the team and evidence of applications). The ideal person will have strong experience of budgetary control and management with a strong knowledge of commissioning of services and development of services. It is also essential for you to hold substantial knowledge and practical application of risk assessment and safeguarding adult’s statutory frameworks and current agendas.

What We Offer

At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme.

Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.

Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

Asking for Adjustments

Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.