Care Leaver Hub Manager

As we embed our structural shift in line with National Reforms, we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Work Manager to lead our Care Leaver Hub (Here4U) and play a pivotal role in shaping services for some of our most vulnerable young people. As Care Leaver Hub (Here4U) Manager, you will lead a dedicated team of Deputy Managers, Social Workers and Personal Advisors, driving high-quality, relationship-based practice that helps young people thrive as they transition into adulthood. You will champion corporate parenting principles, strengthen partnership working across children's and adult services, and ensure our care leavers, children in care, and young people seeking safety via asylum receive the support they need to achieve positive, sustainable outcomes. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact, lead service improvement and inspire a culture of ambition, excellence and innovation. What you'll be doing

• Leading and managing a multi-disciplinary Care Leaver Hub, ensuring high-quality, child-centred practice and positive outcomes for young people.
• Providing leadership, supervision and professional support to Deputy Hub Managers, Social Workers and Personal Advisors.
• Driving continuous improvement through quality assurance, performance management and service development initiatives.
• Promoting strong safeguarding practice, effective risk management and successful transition planning.
• Building effective partnerships with health, education, housing, adult social care and other key agencies.
• Championing an aspirational corporate parenting culture that encourages young people to reach their full potential.
  
  A qualified Social Worker (BA, MA or MSc in Social Work) with substantial post-qualification experience in children's social care and safeguarding.
• Proven leadership and people management experience, with the ability to motivate, develop and inspire teams.
• Strong knowledge of children's legislation, safeguarding practice and relationship-based social work.
• Experience of managing performance, resources and budgets effectively.
• A commitment to delivering outstanding services for care experienced young people and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion.
Join us and help create a service where every care leaver is supported to be safe, successful and ambitious for their future. If you're ready to lead with purpose and make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Children's services When Children's Services get involved in the life of a child, our priority is to make sure our social workers have the support, time, and resources they need to provide an excellent quality of service - the kind of service we ourselves would wish to receive. We're committed to social workers having case loads that give them time to focus on relationship-based practice and we're growing our workforce to reflect this. We want to maintain an environment where practice can flourish and we offer:
• Good quality supervision
• A wide range of training and development opportunities
• A visible and responsive leadership team
We've adopted Signs of Safety as our practice framework. This is a strength based and safety-focused approach which prioritises direct work and relationships with the child and their network. Our commitment to this includes training staff at all levels in Children's Services. We also use this strengths based approach in the support and line management of our staff. https://wokinghamjobs.jgp.co.uk/ Careers in adult social care Adult Social Care makes a positive impact on so many lives. Working in social care is a fulfilling job that transforms lives for the better. With your help, people will have the ongoing support they need to live their lives to the full and help continue to deliver our outstanding services Roles are varied and every day is different. Working in adult social care will give you a huge sense of pride and satisfaction at the end of every working day. You won't find a more rewarding job.


• Excellent pension benefits
• Flexible working hours
• Annual leave - starting at 26 days (plus bank holidays dependent on grade and working hours)
• Training and support
• Free eye tests
• Free gym access
• Free advice and counselling through our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Relocation package worth up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility
• Employment referral scheme of £1000 for successful candidates (subject to eligibility)
• We pay professional registration fees for Social Workers and Occupational Therapists
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