Senior Service Manager EHT

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Senior Service Manager EHT
• Job Location:                    Gloucestershire 
• Salary:                              £56,781 - £59,936 per annum 
• Hours per Week:              37.00 
• Contract Type:                  Fixed Term 
• Duration:                          18 months 
• Closing Date:                   20/07/2025 
• Job Requisition Number: 11639 
• This post is not open to job share

About us

Right child, right support, right time, every time

We are working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help. 

Gloucestershire offers a range of opportunities to develop your career, supported by a phenomenal Social Work Academy offer, a developing systemic practice methodology, an ambitious leadership team and an award-winning workforce.

Gloucestershire Children’s Services are improving. Our latest Ofsted inspection (February 2022) identified that:

‘Significant progress has been made in many areas of Gloucestershire’s children’s services… significant financial investment and the backing of political leaders, has led to improved services that are now more effective in meeting the needs of children and families’.

We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to be part of an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £56,781 - £59,936 per annum subject to experience
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 30.5 days annual leave
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy

About the Service

Gloucestershire County Council’s Early Help service provides support, advice and guidance to children and their families across the county. The service is integral in supporting children and their families to access the right support at the right time. We offer a number of different services under the umbrella of Early Help within the County Council including Family Support, Family Group Conferencing, Parenting and advice and guidance through Early Help Coordinators and Community Social Workers.  Our work is multi-agency,  with other professionals, to ensure that children are achieving the best possible outcomes. This role will oversee the current Service Managers within the service, reporting to the Head of Service, ensuring we offer a consistent impactful service for families.

About you

As well as your experience as a manager/leader you will need to have a solid understanding of the broad Early Help offer across the county and the role of the partnership in delivering this, alongside the offer from the services within the council. A clear knowledge of the functions of each service within the councils offer will be key and an ability to advice and guide the current service managers in their role managing the team managers of these teams. You will have a quality assurance role and will need to be able to process and analyse team performance to ensure we are delivering the best service for families and communities.

How to apply

If you feel you have the skill, desire and experience required to make a positive difference; please submit an application by clicking the “Apply Now” button. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by e-mail and invited to interview.  Please contact Emma Trigwell for further information. email: emma.trigwell@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Senior Service Manager - Job Profile

This position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.