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NLC15 - £59,075 - £64,782
Do you have the experience, skills, dedication and enthusiasm to help promote and build on our successes? Are you a strategic thinker who can positively contribute to partnership working and demonstrate your commitment to Social Work values and standards? If yes, then we want to hear from you.
Based within the Quality Assurance section at Health & Social Care Headquarters, we are currently recruiting a Service Manager to contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of a commissioning and quality assurance framework that will support the design and delivery of high-quality services across North Lanarkshire Health & Social Care Partnership.
You will manage a team that supports the quality provision of services and you will have excellent leadership skills to ensure that staff have an awareness of the strategic goals and objectives of the partnership. This post is for someone who will develop a team of professional staff to support this interesting and challenging work around professional and regulatory standards, quality assurance for contracted and registered services, information governance and complaints management.
Your role will also support the development and implementation of policies and procedures in line with national and council policies and you will contribute to the development of Social Work strategic service plans and manage compliance of service delivery consistent with these.
You will work with a range of key stakeholders, both internally and externally.
To apply you require to hold a professional qualification at degree level or equivalent and in addition have substantial experience of managing the delivery of quality social care/social work services.
Extended post qualifying experience in a senior position is required as is previous supervisory/management experience.
Working here at North Lanarkshire Council
If you're considering a career with us, you'll be keen to know what's in it for you. We have a great package of benefits available, from health and wellbeing to finances and family. This includes 27 days annual leave and 6 public holidays, and a wide range of benefits available to you. We also have a full package of learning and development through our learning academy LearnNL to help you reach your full potential and further your career.
North Lanarkshire Council are Happy to Talk Flexible Working, we operate a Smarter Working Policy.
We are a Disability Confident Leader and offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who consider themselves to be disabled, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.
We have also adopted the Armed Forces Community Covenant to show our support for service personnel, veterans and their families. We offer a guaranteed interview for service leavers, spouses, reservists and veterans, as long as they meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description.
North Lanarkshire Council is committed to #KeepingThePromise. This means that if you have ever been in care, you are entitled to a guaranteed interview for this post, as long as you meet the essential criteria of the person specification/job description. This is one way North Lanarkshire is demonstrating our commitment to supporting Care-Experienced People.
The Plan for North Lanarkshire is to be the place to live, learn, work, invest and visit. The Council recognises that work is an important part of adult life and is critical to our wellbeing and shaping how we live.
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***PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT ACCEPT CVS IN PLACE OF THE APPLICATION FORM. TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS VACANCY YOU MUST ENSURE AN APPLICATION FORM IS SUBMITTED. ANY CV SUBMISSIONS WILL BE DISREGARDED.***
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