Member Job Opportunity: Action for Children - Children's Services Manager

Salary: Circa £50K based on experience
Location: Homebased (England) – With expected travel when required. 
Contract Type: Permanent Full Time (flexible working hours)
Closing Date: 12 March 2023

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At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnicities and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. 

Benefits: 

• Basic annual leave of 29 days PLUS bank holidays  
  
• Up to 5 more days leave for continuous service PLUS the option to buy another 5 days every year! 
  
• Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities. 
  
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages. 
  
• Up to 7% employer pension contribution. Staff discount portal with your favourite brands. 
  
• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers. 
  
• See full list of employee benefits on attachment. 

Why Action for Children? 
Action for Children is one of the UK's largest children's charities – you may have seen us featured in a well-known Christmas TV advert for 2022.  

We believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood, we work to ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.  

A bit about the role: 
You will lead an England-wide team, creating collaborative partnerships with other key stakeholders.  This work will positively impact children by reducing parental conflict and facilitating shared planning for children.   You will ensure high quality delivery that meets commissioner expectations and contractual requirements. 

We have included an information sheet at the bottom of the advert please take a look as it will give you all the information about the Planning Together for Children programme. 

How you will help to create brighter futures.  
Our vision is that every child and young person in the country has a safe and happy childhood. To help us achieve this, you will: 

• Manage and lead a team of professional social care and support staff across England. 
  
• Develop and establish effective working relationships with our key partners - Cafcass, our subcontracted partners, family court social workers, family hubs and family court professionals including judges. 
  
• Manage budget and service performance 

Let's talk about you. 
Our job description at the bottom of the advert outlines the requirements of the role but the ‘must-haves' are:  

• The ability to lead, motivate and manage. 
  
• A qualification relevant to the services within the remit of this post. 
  
• Strong IT Skills including the ability to understand learning platforms, other systems and how they support the user experience. 
  
• Experience in managing family support and parenting services, including co-design with children and young people. 
  
• Experience of managing a service across a wide geographic area with a dispersed team. 
  
• Experience of analysing data and management information to support continual service improvement and development. 
• The ability to travel as required.    

Good to know. 
Interviews will Take place Friday the 17th of March either via Teams or in Person depending on the candidate's location. 

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family. 

Application Process: There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration. 

Contact: Erika Brinkman, Recruitment Partner via email; [email protected] 

Full details and application documents here