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Service Manager - Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPoA) and Partnerships

Brighter Futures for Children

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Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading (Hybrid)

Permanent, Full time

Enhanced DBS check required

Includes £10,500 annual market supplement


 

Service Manager


Brighter Futures for Children

Service Manager - Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPoA) and Partnerships


Full time, permanent post

Salary: £69,179 - £74,833 (Includes £10,500 annual market supplement)


About us

Brighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service.

 

We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Offending Service and traded services with schools.

 

Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy and successful lives.


About the role

 

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our CSPOA team. This is a key management post with both operational and strategic responsibilities.

 

 You will work together and across local partnerships to provide the right support and services at the right time to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and their families. 

 

The postholder is responsible for delivering statutory and non-statutory services as identified including:

  • Children Single Point of Access (CSPoA)
  • Partnership Team
  • One Reading Children & Young People’s Partnership
  • Reducing Parental Conflict Programme

 

You will lead on the operational management of CSPoA, ensuring it delivers an effective and safe service that meets key performance requirements.

 

 You will ensure that the Partnership team works effectively for individual children while, at the same time, developing robust and effective partnerships with schools, health colleagues and other key partners. This work will focus on reducing the escalation of need and risk while contributing to increased resilience across the partnership.

 

 You will provide strategic leadership (alongside the Head of Service) in the development of the One Reading Children & Young People’s Partnership arrangements, including the development of the Early Help Strategy across the partnership and the engagement of partners in delivering on that strategy.  

 

 You will be wholly focused on brighter outcomes for children and young people and will be able to demonstrate how you’ve achieved this.

 

You will be the strategic lead for the Reducing Parental Conflict Programme, a grant funded programme funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to support the partnership to work with parents and carers where conflict features that is frequent, intense and unresolved. At this time there is a commitment for this programme from the DWP until March 2025.

 

Join us now and you will have a real opportunity to be involved in the reshaping of our services to have a lasting impact on improving outcomes for Reading’s children, young people and their families.

 

For more information about the role, please read the job description and person specification.

 

Our offer

We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to put your ideas across. Innovation and ambition are strongly encouraged, and you’ll get a great feel for that working in our friendly and collaborative environment.

 

A competitive salary alongside a range of benefits including:

  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
  • Incremental holidays starting with 26 days plus public holidays (rising to 33 after 10 years’ service)
  • Discounted Childcare (on site nursery)
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Season train ticket loans.
  • Salary Sacrifice Car Lease Scheme
  • A range of local shopping discounts

 

Inclusion and Diversity

We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. 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 children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

 

Asking for Adjustments

Brighter Futures for Children 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 let us know.

 

Closing date: 4th November 2024

Interview date: To be confirmed.


We look forward to hearing from you!


Closing date: Mon 04/11/2024 at 15:29
Job reference: CEEHS/24/295780
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