Safe Time Child Sexual Abuse Service Manager
The Children’s Society has been helping children and young people in this country for over 130 years. We run local services that support children when they are at their most vulnerable and in desperate need of help. We’re there for children, every step of the way.
This role sits within our children and young people directorate, which works to provide immediate one-to-one and group support for children who urgently need support. Your role will be to help us lead and manage the Safe Time service. Working with us to develop innovative practice to support our work across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.
We are currently looking for a passionate and experienced person to join our dynamic, ambitious team.
A key part of this role will be your ability to: -
- To lead a team of Counsellors/Therapists in developing and maintaining effective practice and delivery of therapeutic support to children and young people.
- To plan, allocate and manage workload and resources, ensuring oversight of all cases is maintained at all times.
- To support and manage Staff practice and performance, through supervision, performance reviews and personal development plans.
- To actively engage in all Safeguarding issues in line with The Children’s Society Safeguarding Framework.
- To be responsible for ensuring practice and case recording are in in line with organisational policy and procedures.
Experience
- Relevant experience in working with child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Supervision and Management of staff
- Project/service management
Qualifications
Relevant professional qualification such as Social Work, Diploma in Counselling or Psychotherapy, Psychology, Youth Work or Nursing and or significant relevant experience.
About Us
The Children’s Society runs over 100 local services that help thousands of young people who desperately need our support, and we campaign to get laws and policies changed to make children’s lives happier and safer.
Every day we’re changing the lives of children in this country for the better – and with your help, tomorrow we can be there for even more.
The Children’s Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.
Therefore, candidates applying for work in our CYP Directorate will be required to complete an “Employment history_template” document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.
The closing date for applications is midnight on Sunday 11th December 2022. If, after 14 days, we have received enough applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy early on Monday 28th November.
Interviews will be held on the week commencing 19th December.
This vacancy is closed to applications.