Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Head of Service within the Provider Services to work Full Time based in Medway. The salary for this permanent Head of Service job is up to £91,814per annum. Main duties: Provide strategic leadership, vision and direction to the service areas within Provider Services, taking a lead role on the development of relevant strategies, policies, procedures, programmes and projects. Maintain a strategic oversight of the Council's ambitious new sufficiency plan, nurturing strong, positive relationships with key stakeholders to ensure greater stability to our children in care. Provide a strategic oversight of children's placements and be the interface between Children's Services and Commissioning ensuring Children's Services has a comprehensive understanding of expenditure, how much is being spent and that impact it is having. To include predictions of future expenditure related to changing demand, using scenario modelling to help plan commissioning. To contribute to the operational management and strategic development of the wider service as a member of the Children's Services Management Team. To be accountable for the service area budget, ensuring effective monitoring and analysing of spend in order to ensure services are delivered safely within budget. To be accountable for the service performance through the establishment of clear targets and key performance indicators, continuously driving improvement and ensuring practice and values deliver positive outcomes for children, young people and their families. To assist and deputise for the Assistant Director of Children's Services and provide cover for other Heads of Service, as appropriate., To participate in the senior management on call rota. Requirements of this Head of Service role: A social Work Qualification or equivalent. NVQ Level 5 in Management or equivalent management qualification. Understanding of relevant legislation. Registered or eligible for registration. Extensive management experience including the management of change. Contact: This Head of Service job is advertised by Charlie Reeve; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements. As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning 'Best Candidate Care' at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process. Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.