Service Manager

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Job Description

Peterborough City Council is seeking an experienced and dynamic Service Manager to lead their Children in Care service. This is a key leadership role, driving high‑quality practice, improving outcomes, and ensuring robust safeguarding for children and young people.


Daily Pay Rate: £450


Key Responsibilities


  • Provide operational leadership across Children in Care and Leaving Care pathways, ensuring high‑quality and consistent practice.
  • Line manage Team Managers, Social Workers and Personal Advisers, providing professional direction, supervision, and performance oversight.
  • Ensure all care plans meet statutory requirements, including permanence, reunification and placement planning.
  • Monitor service performance, audit cases, and uphold practice standards.
  • Maintain strong oversight to ensure safe, compliant and effective service delivery.
  • Contribute to wider service development and improvement initiatives, embedding best practice.
  • Work collaboratively with fostering, adoption, health, education and other partner agencies to provide holistic support.
  • Promote multi‑agency planning and coordinated interventions for children in care and care‑experienced young people.
  • Prepare reports for senior leaders and represent the service at strategic and multi‑agency meetings.
  • Ensure full compliance with statutory frameworks, safeguarding requirements and corporate parenting duties.
  • Lead, develop and empower staff, supporting professional development and positive outcomes for children.


Skills & Experience


  • Qualified Social Worker with Social Work England registration.
  • Proven leadership and management experience within Children’s Social Care.
  • Strong understanding of Children in Care, Leaving Care and permanency planning.
  • Experience managing multi‑disciplinary teams and providing reflective supervision.
  • Ability to analyse data, monitor performance, and drive service improvement.
  • Confident in managing high‑risk, complex cases and making defensible decisions.
  • Exceptional communication, influencing, and report‑writing abilities.
  • Skilled in quality assurance, auditing, and maintaining high practice standards.



If you thrive to make a difference and have experience, then we would love to hear from you.

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Location:
Peterborough
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Business

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