Service Manager
5 days ago
Peterborough
Peterborough City Council is seeking an experienced and dynamic Service Manager to lead their Children in Care service. This is a key leadership role, driving high‑quality practice, improving outcomes, and ensuring robust safeguarding for children and young people. Daily Pay Rate: £450 Key Responsibilities • Provide operational leadership across Children in Care and Leaving Care pathways, ensuring high‑quality and consistent practice., • Line manage Team Managers, Social Workers and Personal Advisers, providing professional direction, supervision, and performance oversight., • Ensure all care plans meet statutory requirements, including permanence, reunification and placement planning., • Monitor service performance, audit cases, and uphold practice standards., • Maintain strong oversight to ensure safe, compliant and effective service delivery., • Contribute to wider service development and improvement initiatives, embedding best practice., • Work collaboratively with fostering, adoption, health, education and other partner agencies to provide holistic support., • Promote multi‑agency planning and coordinated interventions for children in care and care‑experienced young people., • Prepare reports for senior leaders and represent the service at strategic and multi‑agency meetings., • Ensure full compliance with statutory frameworks, safeguarding requirements and corporate parenting duties., • Lead, develop and empower staff, supporting professional development and positive outcomes for children. Skills & Experience • Qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration., • Proven leadership and management experience within Children’s Social Care., • Strong understanding of Children in Care, Leaving Care and permanency planning., • Experience managing multi‑disciplinary teams and providing reflective supervision., • Ability to analyse data, monitor performance, and drive service improvement., • Confident in managing high‑risk, complex cases and making defensible decisions., • Exceptional communication, influencing, and report‑writing abilities., • Skilled in quality assurance, auditing, and maintaining high practice standards. If you thrive to make a difference and have experience, then we would love to hear from you.