Location: Bexleyheath Hours per week: 36 (9am to 5pm) The Role The service manager will be responsible for supervising, leading, and supporting team managers within a statutory child protection service area (ie: child in need, child protection, children looked after and care experienced young adults). Due to the nature of the work, you will be expected to work in an often stressful working environment and dealing with a variety of complex, risky, and diverse issues when supporting and safeguarding the many children and young people we work with. You will be overall responsible for risk management and decision making within your service area. This requires you to have extensive knowledge and experience with professional standards for social work as well as the laws, statutory guidance, and local policies and procedures and to ensure these are being modelled and adhered to across the service. ResponsibilitiesTo have experience with, or a willingness to be trained and learn, the Signs of Safety practice model.To have extensive previous management or supervisory responsibilities of other practitioners working with children and families.To contribute to the development and implementation of local policies and service improvement strategies and support their implementation within the service.To provide specialist social work and child protection knowledge and advice to the team, service, and other multi-agency professionals.To liaise, network, influence, and coordinate with other ..... full job details .....