Service Manager (Independent Care and Review Team) - (Temporary)
- Location:
- Ladywell Business Centre 94 Duke Street Glasgow, G4 0UW
- Salary:
- £62,128.95 - £72,032.60 per year
- Contract Type:
- Temporary
- Position Type:
- Full Time
- Hours:
- 35 hours per week
Job Description
The Service Manager for these teams will have operational citywide responsibility for the both the Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) and Promise Participation Worker (PPW) teams, alongside citywide and national strategic lead responsibility for the delivery of Glasgow’s Promise, Participation, Lived Experience and Trauma Informed Practice (children’s services) in Glasgow.
Lead areas/responsibilities include:
• Leading on the alignment of the ASM/IRO role in the city and the development of consistent trauma-informed meeting experiences for families.
• Leading on developing a Participation and Lived Experience strategy across children’s services.
• Leading on the implementation of Trauma Informed Practice across children’s services.
• Chairing of both the citywide Delivering the Promise Board and HSCP Promise Keepers Working Groups.
• Facilitating a number of areas of Promise related practice development areas such as the Language/Relational Writing Test of Change, Family Connections, Brothers and Sisters, Permanence etc.
• Representing Glasgow HSCP on various national forums in relation to the Promise with colleagues from other local authorities, COSLA, Scottish Government, Promise Scotland etc.
• Leading on developing a Culture of Care for our teams and services.
If you are interested in this role, please contact Alison Cowper for an informal discussion alison.cowper@glasgow.gov.uk 07785 451160
Interviews will take place 5th and 6th August 2024.
Please note that this post is open to current Team Leaders and Service Managers only.
This post is temporary for a period up to 30th June 2025.
These posts are excepted under Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013 (as amended).
Only existing employees of Glasgow City Council or one of its Arms Length External Organisations can apply for this vacancy.
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