Senior Manager
Posted 4 days ago by Opus People Solutions Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Manager for the Youth Justice Team at Suffolk County Council is responsible for leading and managing change within the Children and Young People’s Directorate to ensure the safety and well-being of children and families. This role involves strategic leadership, stakeholder communication, and continuous service improvement to achieve high-quality outcomes. The manager will also mentor staff and foster a learning culture while working collaboratively across various professional disciplines. The position is hybrid, allowing for flexibility in work locations across the county.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and communicate information to stakeholders including CYP staff, senior managers, partners, and the media.
- Ensure active participation of children, young people, and parents/carers in service planning and delivery.
- Manage complaints and representations in accordance with Suffolk County Council’s complaints policy.
- Provide strategic leadership and direct management to shape and develop services for children and families.
- Lead continuous service improvement and ensure compliance with service development plans.
- Improve County-wide performance of children’s services and review strategic priorities.
- Motivate and support staff to develop high-quality practice using Suffolk Signs of Safety and Wellbeing principles.
- Create a learning culture within teams by modeling effective practice and innovative working methods.
- Collaborate with management and practitioners from various disciplines to enhance service integration.
- Travel countywide as required to fulfill management responsibilities.
Key Skills:
- Recognised professional Social Work qualification.
- Relevant 3 years post-qualifying experience.
- Current Social Work England registration.
- Full UK driving licence.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Suffolk
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Job Title: Senior Manager - Youth Justice Team
Hourly Pay Rate: £39-44
Work Pattern: Happy to consider all hybrid options, and all locations of candidates across the country
Location: Suffolk County Council - Countywide role with bases at our offices in Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich and Lowestoft
The Role
The responsibility of the Children and Young People’s Directorate (CYP) is to ensure the safety, well-being and learning of children and young people. To do so we need to “make every intervention count” to create impact and bring about sustainable change for children, young people and their families where need is identified. We are determined to continuously improve our services by working in partnership to ensure that our work is high quality and effective.
As a manager in Children and Young People’s Services you will be at the forefront of managing change, leading high quality and effective ways of working and managing staff, resources or projects to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families in Suffolk
Key requirements
- Appropriately manage and communicate information to a range of stakeholders; CYP staff, senior managers, partners, communities, the media and politicians.
- Ensure the active participation of children, young people and parents/carers in service planning and delivery as appropriate and use feedback to inform service delivery and staff development.
- Ensure that complaints and representations are managed appropriately within Suffolk County Council’s complaints policy and that early, informal resolutions are achieved wherever possible.
- Provide strategic leadership and direct management in a senior position to shape and develop services across a range of functions to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families.
- Lead continuous service improvement and ensure high quality and consistent services are delivered in compliance with plans for future service development.
- Take responsibility for improving County-wide performance of children’s services and determine and review strategic priorities through membership of the senior management team.
- Motivate, mentor and support staff to develop high quality practice, embed behaviours and lead effective ways of working within the team using Suffolk Signs of Safety and Wellbeing principles and tools.
- Create a learning culture within teams by modelling effective practice, building on research, best practice and innovative ways of working.
- To work with a wide range of management and practitioner colleagues from different professional disciplines to achieve a more integrated and responsive service to children and families in Suffolk.
- To work in a variety of locations, including rural areas if required by the post.
- Ability to travel countywide to discharge management responsibilities when required to do so.
Skills & experience
- Recognised professional Social Work qualification Essential
- Relevant 3 Years post qualifying experience
- Current Social Work England registration Essential
- Car driver with full UK licence.
The closing date for completed applications is: 30th May 2025 (Midnight)