Team Manager - Children

Role: Team Manager (Manor Centre & School Attendance)

Department: Children, Families and Education Services

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Team Manager on behalf of Luton Borough Council within their Children, Families and Education Services department.

Main purpose of position:

Managing and directing a Family Partnership Service Hub, staff team, resources and budgets, in order to identify, assess and provide services/intervention to support children, young people, families and carers. Improving school attendance is everybody's business and is a priority for the service and the Council.

As a Team Manager, you will be responsible to:

• Ensure all children and young people are enabled to meet their full potential to ensure positive outcomes including payment by results outcomes.
• Ensure effective risk management, decision making and preventative working to safeguard children and young people effectively in accordance with statutory requirements and policies.
• Establish the appropriate assessment required and identify the level of need for support/services.
• Take delegated responsibility to ensure that performance targets are met. Ensure that the work of the teams and performance targets are monitored.
• Recruit, motivate, train and develop staff within Council procedures and implement employment procedures.
• Manage and monitor delegated budgets. Commission services for individuals and groups within the limits of devolved budgets ensuring the Council's Financial Procedures are followed.
• Monitor service delivery, and promote professional practice in accordance with the corporate priorities.

Skills and Experience

• In depth experience of work with children's school settings, young people and their families in children's services.
• Demonstrable experience of complex decision making in children's services.
• Demonstrable experience of managing, advising, coaching and supporting staff.
• Able to manage, motivate and develop a team working within children's services, effectively achieving high levels of performance from staff.
• Able to lead and chair multi-disciplinary meetings.
• Able to represent the service and department at a variety of internal/external meetings.

DBS

Because of the nature of this job, it will be necessary for Disclosure and Barring Service checks to be undertaken. Therefore, it is essential in making your application you disclose whether you have any convictions, bind overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders 1974 (Exemptions) (Amendments) Order 1986. Therefore, applications are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are 'spent' under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being take-up, any failure to disclose such convictions will results in dismissal or disciplinary action by the Authority. The fact that a bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.

About Us

Luton Borough Council have partnered with Kent County Council to create Connect2Luton, a recruitment managed service for all contingent temporary agency, contract, and interim roles at the Council.

Our heritage and being local government owned which means we have a wealth of knowledge and expertise within the public sector, with many of our employees having previously worked for the Council or have supplied previously into the Council, for several years.

We are an equal opportunities employment agency and business that positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.

Connect2Luton is a trading style of Luton & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Luton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Luton is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.