Salford City Council

Children’s Services 

       
Portfolio Lead - Route 29
Grade: 3B+2, £35,745 - £38,223

Working hours: 36 hours per week, including weekends and evenings and sleep ins to meet service needs

Location: Route 29 hub

Contract type: Permanent

Closing Date: 16th May 2024 

About Route 29

Route 29 is working collaboratively to meet the needs of our most vulnerable children and families in Salford. Route 29 will focus on providing a robust and asset based intervention to young people aged 12 – 17 years who are on the edge of care, in care or at risk of placement instability. We believe that Route 29 will embrace a closer working relationship with adolescents – a ‘working with’ rather than a ‘doing to’ approach.

 Our hub which will provide residential and outreach support will have a dedicated team which includes:

• Two Deputy Managers
• Key workers who support young people and their families within the hub and by outreach work in the community
• Portfolio Leads (keyworkers with additional levels of responsibility)
• Life coach (clinical psychologist)
• Speech and Language therapist
• Educational Psychologist
• Two Nurses
• Two community foster families who work out of the hub and are part of the professional team

About the Role

Route 29 are seeking Portfolio Leads in 3 area:  

• Residential – You will work closely with the Registered manager and assistant manager and be based within the residential home at Route 29 to create a safe, homely, supportive environment for young people who reside in the home and support staff to follow correct procedures to enhance practice within the home  
• Health and Wellbeing – You will work closely with the Life Coach and partner agencies who can support the health and wellbeing of the young people and families we work with, offering sound advice on interventions, signposting and pathways to appropriate services to meet the needs of service users  
• Accommodation and Transitions – You will work closely with partner agencies in 16+ provisions and fostering to support young people and families who are experiencing changes in accommodation, ensuring where possible transitions are planned with support from key professionals.

As a Portfolio Lead you will have key responsibility for providing support to achieve positive outcomes for staff and the families and young people we work with.  You will lead in a specific area and network with other key services relevant to your role creating robust pathways and step ups/step downs for or keyworks to access. You will provide supervisions to a small number of keyworkers and ensure that practise is consistent across the team.You will work as part of a multi agency team you will display a genuine commitment to the needs and welfare of vulnerable children and adults to ensure the best outcomes for them. You will demonstrate our values of Pride, Passion, People and Personal Responsibility to give young people the stability, skills and support to manage their transition to adulthood and independence successfully.

Learn, grow and develop as a leader

At Salford we’re committed to supporting our leaders to grow and from day one we’ll support you to succeed as a Salford leader through ongoing learning and development. This will include some core #LeadingSalford development and an immediate opportunity to gain a relevant leadership qualification. You can find out more here https://greater.jobs/sss/salford-city-council/leadingsalford/  

Contact the Route 29 team

If you think that working with the Route 29 team and making a real difference to a young person's life might be for you, please contact Registered Manager – Caroline Pickersgill on 0161 603 6862 or email caroline.pickersgill@salford.gov.uk  or David Roberts email david.roberts@salford.gov.uk  for an informal discussion.

Please be aware that this post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and that you will be required to meet the cost of the DBS check – currently £38.00. The payment for this will be deducted from your first four months’ salary payments at a rate of £9.50 per month. If you do not commence employment for any reason but the DBS has been processed, you will be sent an invoice for the payment of £38.00.

If you have lived or worked abroad for 3 months or more in the last 5 years or 12 months or more (whether continuously or in total) in the last 10 years whilst aged 18 or over, please refer to the link below for details for how to obtain your Certificates of Good Character. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants

About your benefits

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged and you will have the opportunity to work and grow in a values based organisation where people are at the heart of everything we do. We promote a positive permission culture, empowering you to make a difference. Your opinions matter to us and you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel, pension and salary sacrifice schemes.  In addition to this we offer a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.  

Continuous service commitment

New employees can now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils, NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as well as many others.  

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities with work https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion

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