Spring by Action for Children

Children's Services Manager

Spring by Action for Children

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Derbyshire • United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £53,900 per year

About the role

  • Developing and maintaining effective networks, relationships, partnerships, and contacts to improve service outcomes.
  • Successful management and delivery of commissioned services, including managing and developing operational services for children, young people, and their families.
  • Draw on your sound knowledge of the needs of children in care and trauma informed practice, to ensure strong and boundaried oversight of the service delivery.
  • Leading, motivating, and managing a multidisciplinary staff team working in complex environments.
  • Managing the submission of tenders and nurturing new business opportunities.
  • Providing visible, enabling, and supporting leadership to promote and encourage a work ethos that is consistent with our values and objectives.
  • Demonstrating financial and commercial acumen and awareness through management of budgets, costing and analytics.
  • Managing change projects that are service or practice focused.
  • Collecting, monitoring, and analysing data and management information.
  • Excellent written and communicative skills, also to lead, chair and contribute at meetings.

Requirements

  • The ability to promote the highest standards of safeguarding and trauma informed practice.
  • Knowledge of the needs of children in care, how their needs can present and the impact this can have on emotional wellbeing.
  • Team collaboration skills, as you are holding and containing a staff team working in highly distressing environments as well as working with business development, finance, fundraising and other colleagues,
  • Effective leadership skills, that promotes both psychological safety as well as high performance.
  • Ability to provide line reports with regular supervision, performance reviews and apply other HR responsibilities.
  • Experience of creating and managing budgets, to achieve the required margins through use of agreed controls and monitoring processes.
Benefits
  • 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
  • Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
  • Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
  • Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
  • Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers’ discounts.
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Soft Skills
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