Full Time, Permanent
Interviews will take place on Friday 14th August.
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of children and safeguarding their future? We are seeking an experienced Deputy Service Manager to lead our Safeguarding teams in North Bristol, providing leadership and support to deliver high-quality services for children and families.
Role Overview:
As Deputy Service Manager, you will play a crucial role in modelling, developing and managing the Neighbourhood model of service for children and families.
You will be working closely with the Service Manager to ensure statutory duties for children and families are met; to support effective support and intervention for our families and children, supporting children to grow up in safe loving homes and achieve the best outcomes.
You will ensure the safeguarding of children and effective, timely intervention to create safety and change within family homes. Where children are unable to grow up safely with their primary carers you will support the teams to secure permanence for children within their timescales, prioritising kinship and family-based care as permanence options for children.
You will work with partners to develop services and appropriate multi agency responses to families and communities including police, health, education amongst others.
In addition to providing operational oversight and strategic development, you will support the Service Manager in managing budgets, workforce, and performance, while upholding the highest standards of practice.
Our neighbourhood model and our new specialist teams will enable our family support workers, key workers and social workers to have the recommended number of children allocated to them that will enable them to deliver intensive support whilst also being supported by our specialist teams when there is harm outside the home and or a child is at risk of needing to come into our care.
We are looking forward to building on the brilliant work our teams already do with children by expanding our services to create the conditions for our teams to feel supported, have the time they need to work intensively with children and families, access good training, feel psychologically safe and listened too, whilst experiencing healthy challenge to thrive in their roles in our joint vision with children and families.
We will continue our commitment of working with integrity, honesty, kindness, transparency, collaboration and family led decision making as we build on what we do well and learn together to develop our work further.
“We will help families to achieve the change they want to see for themselves and their children. We believe that children should live with their family or someone who knows them best. We act when children need to be protected from harm and we do everything we can to make sure that children in our care and care leavers are set up for life”
Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.
Why Bristol City Council?
At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.
Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.
How do I apply?
If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.
To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.
We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.
If you are a capable manager/leader with a commitment to improving the lives of vulnerable children and families, we would love to hear from you.
Contact Us:
For more information or to discuss opportunities, contact: Louise Jenner Service Manager on [email protected] or 0117 922 2660
Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black and racially minoritised, Disabled, LGBTQ+ and Male candidates who are currently under-represented within this Service of Bristol City Council. Appointments will be made on merit.
The personal information section (including your name) you’ll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers, but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.
