Location:
48 Station Road, LondonClosing Date:
09 Mar 2025Job description
Contract Terms
Grade: PO8
Salary: £61,980 – £65,476 per annum (plus £5850 Market Supplement for Service Managers)
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 9th March 2025
Interview Date: Monday 24th March 2025
About Haringey
Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.
About the Service
The Young Adults and Pause Service invites applications from experienced, qualified, and child-focused practitioners at Service Manager level. It is an essential criterion that applicants have at least 2 years’ experience of working at Service Manager level or above.
We are a busy and supportive service working with children in care and young people leaving care aged 16 to 25 years old and playing a vital role in ensuring positive futures. We also manage the referral and assessment and ongoing support for unaccompanied minors arriving in the borough aged 16 and over and ensure a robust response to age assessment requirements.
Our Pause service works with women who have experienced, or are at risk of, having children removed from their care. The programme offers an intensive, trauma informed model of support to women, so the removal of a child should never have to happen more than once.
Key to Pause work is the relationships we build with women at risk of having future infants removed – we work in partnership with them to find new ways to overcome problems of the past and meet challenges of the present, so that together we build strong foundations on which they can develop a more positive future.
The experiences and progress of care leavers in Haringey was graded as Good by Ofsted in 2023. Our strengths are noted as having a team who are dedicated and knowledgeable in supporting care experienced young people. Our approach is very much relationship based, and we have a stable workforce of permanent employees. We offer robust support to care leavers through our local offer with a particularly strong housing and employment offer.
Haringey has a diverse population, and this is reflected well in our workforce and senior leadership teams. At all levels, staff are proud of working for Haringey. A culture of appreciation, kindness and support is firmly embedded. Staff said their leaders care about them, listen to them and take action to address the things that need to change. In turn, staff are loyal and they care about their leaders. Staff who leave often return to Haringey. They talk about the feeling of ‘family’. This sense of emotional safety is vitally important, enabling workers to practise with the confidence and persistence needed to effect change for children and young people who are living in very challenging circumstances.
We are looking for someone who will embrace our ways of working and who is committed to driving improvement and outcomes for care leavers.
About the Role
- The Service Manager will be leading the improvement of services based on effective analysis of risk and performance outcome measures and in consultation with users, and carers, as well as with other commissioners and providers.
- Ensuring that the operational responsibilities of the service area function smoothly and to a high standard; that practitioners are supported and enabled to deliver high quality services and that supervision, team meetings and other service essentials work consistently well.
- Ensuring that young people in need of protection and children looked after by the Council receive a high quality assessment and service provision in keeping with professional standards of good practice, legislation, regulations and guidance.
- Developing relevant, effective and easily accessible services, working in close partnership with other service providers.
About You
The ideal candidate will need to be a resilient, authoritative and an experienced Service Manager who places children and young people and their welfare at the heart of practice. The post holder will effectively manage the leaving care services, including making judgement of risk to individual young people, within the Service and across agencies.
You will need to have a proven ability to lead on services for adolescents and care leavers.
The role will take on a strategic position in developing innovative and effective practice with unaccompanied minors on their arrival and journey through care. The role will require the post holder to ensure we have responded effectively to external changes and makes efficient use of scare resources providing some monitoring oversight of the grant claim and reconciliation of data and performance.
You will be working with managers across the Children and Young People’s Service to ensure children receive a seamless and holistic response to their needs.
The post holder will ensure the most effective use of allocated budgets, adhere to Best Value principles, control cost and enhance value.
The post holder to ensure development of model of good practice, embed clear procedures and training programmes for all YAS staff and ensure appropriate use of NRPF connect.
You will need to liaise effectively and efficiently with both internal and external partners to ensure that children and young people are safe. Therefore, your written and verbal communication would be second to none and you would be used to providing high quality, evidence-based assessments, analysis and the application of signs of safety.
The post holder will hold Social Work qualification and Social Work England registration.
Working for Haringey
At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders. Please continue to check these through the application process. If you have any questions about the status of you application please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk