Interim Assistant Service Manager - First Response Children's Duty (INTERNAL ONLY)
Interim Assistant Service Manager - First Response Children's Duty (INTERNAL ONLY)
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Job Description
PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Fixed Location Worker
Salary: 53724 -59220
Working Hours:37 Hours
Contract Type: Secondment/ Fixed term for (12 months )
Closing Date: 9th July 2025
Interview Date(s): 18th July 2025
First Response Childrens Duty are recruiting to an Interim Assistant Service Manager to cover a 12 month Secondment/Fixed term
About the Role
Are you looking for an exciting challenge for the next year
If the answer is Yes then consider this :- Assistant Service Manager in First Response!
The Assistant Service Manager role is a varied role and every day is different. You will predominantly have oversight and manage the Screening Team where there are Team Managers Senior Practitioners Social Workers and Support Workers.
You will have understanding of complex front door systems and work closely alongside Business Support and the Transformation Unit leading on development work and implementation of work already started as part of our continuous improvement and refinement over the last 2-3 years. In practice every day involves making decisions in respect of thresholds in response to the stream of contacts that we get daily.
You will also assist the Service Manager with the wider service which includes the Assessment Team.
The environment is very fast-paced and hands on. You will have experience of managing delivery of statutory Child protection processes overseeing the application of threshold and being accountable for high-risk decision making.
You work closely with partner agencies continuing to build relationships so that collaboration supports positive change and ways of working.
We are looking for a passionate and creative person who has significant frontline social work management experience (qualified social worker) understands the importance of team development managing people to support strong teams and leading a clear vision to ensure our workforce can deliver the very best service to our children and families.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see our policy statement.
About You
To apply for this post you must:
To apply for this post you must respond to and evidence the following essential criteria within your personal statement. This should be no more than 1000 words.
- Have significant experience of managing delivery of statutory processes (child protection and court work/PLO) and overseeing the application of thresholds from the first point of contact strategy discussion s47 and s17.
- Have experience of applying practice standards and driving high quality consistent practice in a team environment to ensure children and families receive timely and quality intervention and apply data to monitor and drive performance and throughput.
- Have experience and be able to demonstrate the ability to make high risk decision making in a fast-paced environment being accountability and supporting and directing managers and staff as needed.
- Demonstrate leadership and collaboration to support strong team relationships and partnership working to provide an efficient service to Children and Families.
- Have experience of providing supervision guidance and personal development reviews for managers/senior practitioners to enable them to fulfil their role and enhance their contribution to the service. This includes using performance data and audit to inform development work for individuals and teams.
- Demonstrate being able to lead on specific pieces of work to support Service and Team Plans and contribute to the review of progress and actions needed including quality assurance learning and improvement.
- Have experience and a clear understanding/knowledge of leading an Inclusive workforce where you will take responsibility for our Equity and Inclusion plan and Voice and Participation plan.
You need to have your manager agreement to the 12-month secondment/ Fixed term at the time of application
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Jo Searle- Service Manager or Kay Fletcher -Head of Service
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Employment Type
Intern
