Service Manager - Social Work - Residential Services, …, Calderdale

Responsible for Managing Residential Services, Fostering and Adoption Services and Care Leavers Direct line management responsibility for Locality Team/Unit Managers within Children?s Social Care and through them, for a range of social work, child care, administrative and business support staff. Make strategic decisions and make recommendations to the Head of Service and Group Director of Children & Young People?s Services regarding policies, and service development in Children?s Social Care. As a member of the Children?s Social Care Management Team to ensure that all appropriate mechanisms are in place for achieving continuous improvement in the performance and development of the Service with particular responsibility for the effective performance management of Children?s Social Care. Lead and manage a designated service area, ensuring that appropriate strategies, policies and procedures are developed and implemented to ensure the effective delivery of the service. As part of the Senior Management Team in Children?s Social Care have lead responsibility for ensuring that services are in place to protect children and young people across Calderdale and that safeguarding duties and responsibilities are effectively fulfilled As part of the Senior Management Team in Children?s Social Care review workloads and resources to ensure that responsibility for vulnerable children and those where there are legal responsibilities are met. Make decisions on professional operational matters within the scheme of delegation, including workload allocation, deployment of staff, setting and control of budgets and key decisions about legal issues relating to children and young people Deputise for the Head of Children?s Social Care and act as lead officer for Children?s Social Care in the absence of the Head of Children?s Social Care