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Head of Service- Family Help (Assessment)Full Time £62,443 to £65,663 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963 Permanent Expires 17/08/2025 About the RoleGrade: N scp 50 £62,443 to scp 53 £65,663 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963pa Contract: Permanent Essential Requirement: Full Driving Licence Essential Qualification: Social Work qualified and registered with SWE Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. Ask us about flexible working options to fit with your work/life balance - #HappytoTalkFlexible The Role We are thrilled to be able to offer an exciting new opportunity providing additional senior management capacity within the Referral and Assessment service at Bolton Council. We are recruiting to two permanent Head of Service posts to work alongside the Strategic Lead for Family Help in the Referral and Assessment Service. The Head of Service for Family Help (assessment) will provide operational leadership to the Assessment Teams, to ensure quality assessments are progressed in a timely manner and that we continue to provide a good service to our children and families in Bolton. Our Assessment Service is part of Bolton Council’s Front Door and takes referrals and assessments from the Integrated Front Door. The assessments are regarding children who are at risk of significant harm and in need of support to ensure their welfare and protection. The teams are responsible for Section 47 enquiries, social care assessments, Initial Child Protection Conferences, issuing Care Proceedings and initiating the Public Law Outline. As a Head of Service, you will lead the operational management, supervision, support and guidance of a team of managers. The Head of Service will ensure that the services offered to children are of the highest quality, ensuring effective safeguarding of children and adhering to statutory and legislative requirements. You will be expected to ensure the excellent standards of work are steered through supervision, quality assurance, performance management and audit. Alongside the Head of Service (triage) and Strategic Lead, you will work together to drive forward the vision of improving services to ensure the most vulnerable children in Bolton are safe and their outcomes improved. If you are interested in the role and would like to have a conversation prior to application or to know more, please contact the Strategic Lead- Family Help; Judith Wilkinson ([emailprotected] ) About You You will need to be a qualified social worker with proven experience of managing teams in safeguarding children, child protection and/or Court work experience and experience of working at the Front Door. You must have a minimum of 3 years management experience in Children’s social care including experience of managing social care teams and child protection activity. We are looking for candidates who are motivated, ambitious, creative and committed to safeguarding children. You will need to be resilient and solution focused, with an ethos of effective team working and partnership working in a challenging environment. You will have a positive outlook, be ambitious, creative but most of all caring. You will be able to show transferrable skills that enable you to be an effective Head of Service in the challenging but rewarding area of Children’s Social Care. If you think you could be what we're looking for, please apply now with your CV and covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the role as covered in the job description and person specification About Us This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough. Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents. As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services. Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too. Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role. Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply. We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post. This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification. This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information. For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact [emailprotected]#J-18808-Ljbffr