Service Manager: Adoption and Permanency
Are you an experienced social work leader with a passion for helping children achieve safe, stable and loving homes? This is an exciting opportunity to lead adoption and permanency services, driving high-quality practice and ensuring children experience a strong sense of belonging through timely and secure family arrangements.
Working across adoption, kinship and permanence planning services, you will play a pivotal role in shaping excellent outcomes for children, families and carers.
Our Children and Families services and our vision here in Staffordshire is rooted in four core principles that underpin everything we do:Families first – network and community alwaysRight help, right time – proportionate, timely and co-produced with children and familiesWhole-system responsibility for supporting children and families to be happy, healthy and safePermanence as belonging from day oneTo achieve our ambition, we have taken a bold decision to transform our service structure and we’re looking for talented, values-driven leaders who can champion these principles, inspire others and help shape the future of Children and Families services in Staffordshire.We want to create a more resilient, child-centred and future-focused system that enables children, young people and families to receive the right help at the right time.Through this redesign, we are strengthening leadership, increasing capacity and creating clearer lines of accountability across our services.
These changes will support high-quality practice, stronger partnerships and better outcomes for children and families, while ensuring we are well positioned to respond to national reforms and future challenges.
