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We are seeking to recruit a dynamic, creative and committed Children's Services Manager to support the development and progression of our new Keyworker service in East Berkshire. Our vision is to provide young person and family centered support, whilst influencing system change to achieve better outcomes for more children and young people with Learning Disabilities, Autism and complex needs across East Berkshire. The service will be provided across the entire East Berkshire footprint covering: Slough, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Bracknell Forest.

The Children's Services Manager will provide vision, leadership, management, support, and development opportunities to the staff team in line with the expected behaviours laid out within our People and Culture Strategy. The successful candidate will drive our vision of the service and have the passion and experience to see it succeed. As part of the leadership team within the Barnardo's Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire locality, the Children's Services Manager will work collaboratively with colleagues and partners to achieve the best outcomes for all children accessing Barnardo's services across the locality.

The Service has a child focused ethos and we expect the team to embody the following characteristics:

• Empathy/Understanding: believes in an approach that requires an understanding of needs from the perspective of the child, young person and family
• Respect: respects the opinions and beliefs of the child, young person and family and works to ensure they are represented, with a commitment to the principles of child-centred, personalised care
• Positive and Solution-Focused: has a positive, solution focused approach to ensuring the best outcomes for the child, young person and family
• Commitment: commitment to ensuring the rights of children and young people with a learning disability and/or autism are protected and enforced and that their views and preferences, and those of their families, are listened and responded to
• Tenacious: in the pursuit of appropriate support and outcomes
• Always Learning: commitment to personal learning and helping the system learn and improve
• Compassionate: to listen and respond to the needs of the child, young person and family with understanding and compassion
• Collaborative: committed to joined-up, collaborative working

A Barnardo's Children's Services Manager job description and person specification is attached to the advert for this role. This is a generic role description in use throughout the organisation to cover all management roles at the given salary band. This Additional Information Sheet outlines the specific responsibilities, skills and experience required and it is important that you read this carefully before you apply.

When completing your application form, please refer to the skills, knowledge and experience required as detailed in the Person Specification and also in this Additional Information Sheet. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

WORKPLACE OFFER: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

Benefits

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Corporate University

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £41,600.00-£44,980.00 per year

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Flexitime

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bracknell Forest: reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (required)

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: 15600