Team Manager Children in Care Home Finding & Brokerage

Coventry Children's Services is looking for an experienced and motivated Team Manager Children in Care Home Finding & Brokerage to lead a high-impact service at the heart of improving outcomes for children and young people in our care. This senior role requires leadership, care planning, home-finding, and commissioning expertise, plus child-focused professional judgement, to directly shape the quality, stability, and value for money of homes for Coventry's children. As Team Manager, you will take overall responsibility for the effective delivery of the Children in Care Home Finding team. You will lead a skilled team operating in a fast-paced, high-demand environment, ensuring children are placed in safe, high-quality homes that meet their needs and deliver the best possible outcomes. Working closely with commissioning, operational children's services, providers and partners, you will play a key role in market management, sufficiency planning and quality improvement across homes including residential care, fostering and supported accommodation. You will also contribute at a senior level to strategy development, financial governance and quality assurance, using insight and data to drive continuous improvement. All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

You will bring a positive and strong management experience alongside deep knowledge of children's services, home finding, care planning and commissioning. You'll be comfortable working strategically while also leading operational delivery in a pressured environment.,

• Extensive knowledge of legislation, statutory guidance and regulatory frameworks relating to children in care
• Strong experience of care planning, home finding, commissioning and sufficiency within children's services. Understanding of fostering, residential and supported accommodation.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate professional teams delivering complex services
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong financial acumen, with experience of managing budgets, placement spend and value for money
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and a child focused approach.
  
  About Coventry City Council
At Coventry City Council, we never want to hear the words - 'but that's the way we've always done it!" We are a Council that's looking for new ways of working to tackle new - and old - challenges. We have had great success already and made great strides in changing the way we deliver services and in the way we work with colleagues. We have brought in a new flexible approach to working, giving staff the power, skills and tools to work from the best place at the best time to get the job done. The City Coventry is a city that is changing fast, and we are looking for candidates with the right skills and personality to join our team and help take us into a bright new future. We are a city that is going places, with an inspiring, world-famous history and exciting times ahead. We are home to award-winning universities, top-level sport and concerts and famous brands such as Jaguar Land Rover and Severn Trent. We are a part of the 'Midlands-Engine', the home of the UK motor industry and a proud multicultural city. Coventry is a great place to live and work, and it's getting even better! The Council Our city is changing - and the Council is changing too. Headed by Chief Executive, Julie Nugent, the Council is committed to improving the quality of life for residents and its workforce. The Council is bringing in new, streamlined ways of working and making more use of technology to deliver services in new ways - helping residents to do more for themselves online and to do business with us when and how they want. Coventry City Council is a modern council for a new age, embracing technology and flexible working to continue to rise to new challenges. It's a council that's not afraid to try something new!