Service Managers (3 roles)

Leaving Care Service Manager (1 role) - 12 month Fixed Term Contract

Children in Care and Leaving Care

​This is a rare opportunity for you to put your leadership skills to the test. It’s your chance to contribute and make an impact through your creativity, innovation and desire to drive forward practice improvement.

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Salary: £56,595 - £60,303

​Hours: 37 

​Contract: Permanent 

Base: Sir Henry Mitchell House (however subject to change)

​Holidays: Annual Leave starts at 31 days and rises to max of 34 days with service. (plus, public holidays).   

​Excellent Pension: Defined benefit scheme with 16.8% employer contribution   

​Career Progression: Tailored training and development opportunities  

​Professional Support: Regular supervision and annual appraisals, payment of professional fees   

​Closing Date: 18 December 2023

​Interviews:  Week beginning of 8th January 2024.​

Become the leader you aspire to be.

Bradford Children and Families Trust was established in April this year to bring a step change in the quality and delivery of Children’s Services across our district. Our purpose is clear - to ensure that our promise to improve the lives of children and young people in Bradford becomes a reality. It’s a tough ask. It requires dedication, determination and resilience – but under a new Chief Executive, Senior Leadership team and an unswerving drive to deliver the best outcomes, we are confident that we’ll achieve our ambition – and you, yours.  

Working for the Bradford Children and Families trust offers the opportunity to work with great people who are passionate about delivering change in a city whose culture offers as much diversity as it’s geography.

  Thoughtful, considerate and dedicated to delivering the best outcomes for children and young people, you’re a leader with an unwavering commitment to supporting and safeguarding the most vulnerable children through the highest quality safeguarding practices.

​Your passion keeps you focused on delivering the highest standards at every opportunity. As well as steering the course of the service we want to provide, your experience, guidance and dedication will provide invaluable support and inspiration for those around you. 

​The challenges you’ll face are diverse and complex. We’ll look to you to lead the operational side of the service, driving forward practice improvement, delivering good outcomes and securing long-term aspirational plans for permanence. 

​We’ll be with you on every step of your journey with us – enabling you to become the best you can be through continuous learning and development and a focus and investment in your health and wellbeing. ​

Key deliverables are:​

• To have overall responsibility for the leadership and management of your team.

• Ensure that assessments, plans, interventions and review processes are timely, well planned, child focused and follow the appropriate statutory and local decision-making frameworks.

• Lead, coach and mentor front line managers and promote their professional development.

• Promote participation and the child’s voice as part of your leadership, putting child focused decision making at the centre of all practice.

• Provide out of hours management support as part of a rota.

• Build and sustain effective working partnerships across statutory services and the voluntary and community sector to promote joined up and effective responses to children and families.

• Support the recruitment and selection of the workforce.

• Provide strong leadership to the service area working alongside your colleagues to develop effective communication and to ensure continued service development.

• Support your Head of Service to ensure that the service area is subject to effective financial and budget management.

• Achieve local and national targets by managing performance and ensuring continual progress and improvement.

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About You

​A qualified Social Worker with strong interpersonal skills, experienced and expert in managing the delivery of quality outcomes for children and young people.  We need a courageous leader who puts ‘the child’ at the heart of every decision. Someone who enthusiastically embraces change, thrives on challenge and tackles the most complex needs with drive and determination to ensure the best outcomes for the children and young people of Bradford.

​For a confidential conversation, please call Amandip Johal, Assistant Director, Children’s Social Care and Practice on 07773 248040 or Pamela Stanyon-Carr on 07890 420872

​To apply, please submit your CV, a supporting statement (no more than 4 sides of A4) expressing why you are interested in this role and what experience you bring to the role. The statement should also set out how you meet the specific requirements. Send to careers@bradfordcft.org.uk.

Closing date for applications: 5pm, Monday 18 December 2023

Interviews will take place week commencing 8 January 2024