Strategic Manager - Fostering

☞ Triumph Consultants Ltd

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更新日: 01-06-2024

位置: Northampton East Midlands

类别: 执行管理 时尚/生活方式 非政府组织/非营利组织

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薪水: Up to £407 a day

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工作内容

What’s involved with this role:
Interim Strategic Manager - Fostering Reference no: NCT (HQ) NCT13562 Pay rate up to £407 per day PAYE depending on experience This opening assignment is for 3 months This is a key operational and strategic management post. The post-holder will be responsible for the delivery of our Fostering Service and for driving sufficiency and overall service improvement. This service is going through a period of transformation and the strategic manager will play a pivotal role in supporting change and developing the fostering service to ensure children cared for by the IFA have a positive experience of being cared for and achieve good progress Key responsibilities:
  • Responsibility for the strategic planning of the service and developing and managing all aspects of the independent fostering agency, providing line management to the registered manager for the IFA. Attention to the regulatory requirements is essential and the postholder will lead the service area’s preparation and action planning for OFSTED inspection outcomes, including DFE requirements.
  • Responsible for the overall growth of our foster carer numbers alongside the retention of existing and new carers. To include the professional development of staff, managers and carers with particular emphasis on developing a specialist and effective adolescent foster care offer.
  • Ensuring the service continues to provide high quality fostering services through regular partnership working with social work teams and key stakeholders.
  • To oversee the delivery of continued supervision and appraisal of team members; ensuring Signs of Safety practice is embedded throughout the workforce with the voice of the child evident in all service delivery and that staff are appropriately developed and supported.
  • To ensure the management of complaints comply with The Children Act 1989 and National Minimum Standards for Fostering Services.
  • To meet the sufficiency requirements of the organisation through continually seeking innovative cost-effective service provision, attracting and retaining carers within the available resource envelope. Determining and setting an appropriate strategy for service growth and continuous improvement.
  • Ensuring the relevant business objectives of the service are met and that the service is managed in line with business priorities as agreed at the start of each financial year.
  • Managing budgets and expenditure so as to ensure that resources are optimised. In line with eligibility criteria and priority levels as prescribed in our policies and procedures, financial regulations, ensuring value for money.
  • Establishing, implementing and reviewing annual objectives and targets and ensure that managers produce and implement service and team business plans, setting out clear aims, objectives, targets and performance.
  • Developing systems for the effective monitoring of performance and recognising and commending good performance and to demonstrate high expectations of performances.
  • Supporting the Assistant Director by advising on strategy, policy and future direction of the service, ensuring effective feedback and translation into service delivery
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
  • Knowledge of Statutory responsibilities in children’s social care, including that of a fostering service under National Minimum Standards and Fostering Regulations
  • Advanced level and understanding of performance, programme and project management, statistical analysis and importance of high quality information and its use.
  • A solid understanding of Children’s Services with a particular emphasis for those facing DfE Improvement Notices.
  • Extensive experience of managing at a senior level in a social care or related setting
  • Substantial experience in setting and delivering a commissioning strategy to improve outcomes.
  • Significant experience of working in partnership at a strategic level.
  • Ability to work across a complex system and people with diverse and conflicting interests.
  • Able to influence decisions at a senior level.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. SEE DETAILS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS AD. If you have previously applied to one of our vacancies and have already sent the required supporting documentation to us, please make this clear when you re-apply as this will help speed up your application. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF . If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
  • Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
  • Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
  • Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
  • Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
  • Any local authority/public sector experience
  • Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
ALD If you would prefer to send a CV straight to us rather than by way of an on-line application, you are very welcome to do so via jobs@tclrec.com but please quote both the job reference and job title exactly as they appear below:

Job Ref: NCT (HQ) NCT13562

Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates. We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed. Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs. Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.
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最后期限: 16-07-2024

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