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Look Ahead Care Support and Housing
Bracknell (On-site) 1.18 miles
Up to £41200 per annum + A generous pension
Full-time
Job description

We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Service Manager to join our Young People Social Care Service in Bracknell.

£41,200.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week.

Our benefits include:

  • Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
  • Free DBS
  • A generous pension - we will contribute up to 8% and life assurance cover up to 3x Pensionable Salary (T&Cs apply)

All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

In this role, you will actively listen to and engage with young people, ensuring their voices are heard and their needs are met. Developing and maintaining essential external partnerships will be key to providing a robust support structure for our customers. We are looking for an empathetic leader who can connect with young people and staff alike, showing genuine care and understanding. You should be adept at comprehending and implementing policies and procedures to benefit both customers and the organisation. Excellent communication skills are essential for effectively liaising with stakeholders, Children services, Commissioning teams, and OFSTED. A proactive approach to service development and regulatory compliance will be crucial to your success.

What you'll do:

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead

  • Drive business planning activities within your contract, ensuring relevant and challenging objective setting and ongoing performance tracking, developing turn around action plans as may be necessary
  • Using sound financial and accounting principles, manage contract budgets to deliver on corporate and local contract financial targets
  • Successfully lead and motivate your team to ensure the championing of and maintenance of a positive local culture within your service
  • Work to continuously improve staff competence, ensure ownership of all staff issues and speedy and effective conflict resolution
  • Responsible for reporting all staff changes to HR and Payroll departments, as appropriate e.g. starters, leavers, additional hours etc.
  • Responsible for maintaining quarterly staff succession plans
  • Deliver effective, professional and commercially focused briefings and supervision meetings with staff and ensure that information, reporting & communications flow up/down is effective
  • Responsible for managing and allocating customers to support staff (casework management)
  • Develop key business relationships with all relevant customers/external parties to ensure service delivery excellence and maximise new business opportunities in own patch
  • Plan, organise and prioritise operations within your contract to ensure maximum efficiencies/utilisation of all resources
  • Working with your team lead creative and ambitious customer involvement plans across the patch and ensure successful implementation

About you:

  • Ability to lead and motivate staff to deliver excellent services
  • Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
  • Has a practical and logical mind

What you'll bring:

Essential:

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent
  • Experience of managing contracts and resources and delivering to budget and performance targets
  • Experience of delivering to housing management performance targets

Desirable:

  • Other relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications

About us:

Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

Posted on: 05 May 2026
Closing date: 02 June 2026 at 15:36
Job ref: REQ006861
Tags: Social / Support Work