CHAD Service Delivery Manager

Job Description

Job title: Service Delivery Manager

Salary: DIR 45 £ 60,480 - £66,318

Hours: 37

Contract: Permanent

Location: Various offices city wide – CHAD

• Qualified social worker registered with SWE
• Experience in managing social work teams
• Ability to work with partners within and beyond social work
• Willingness to engage with children and parent/carers in order to shape services in response to their feedback.

Roles at this level support the Chief Officer in the professional leadership, management and development of the service in accordance with the Council’s strategic objectives and the directorate priorities. People in these roles combine a strategic service development role with operational responsibilities for services and delivery of day to day functions that contribute to the achievement of the Council’s vision and strategic outcomes.

This involves contributing to the planning, organising, commissioning and delivery of services across the council and with partners to ensure there is a fully integrated city-wide approach.

As part of a directorate/service leadership team roles at this level live and model values and behaviours to help the council achieve its ambition to be the best city council in the country.

CHAD – The Leeds Child Health and Disability Service, known as CHAD, consists of teams working with children and young people aged 0-18 with complex health needs and disabilities. The Service consists of three social work teams, a hospital team and the Occupational Therapy Service.

The service aims to ensure that every child in Leeds with a complex health need or disability benefits from child-centred, high-quality, responsive services, to help them live a successful and fulfilling life.

The Service Delivery manager in CHAD works as part of a team of committed and experienced team managers and staff, within a challenging landscape for children with disabilities and complex needs.

For informal discussion please contact:
Hilary Suddes, Head of Service on  or

Closing date for applications 6th March

Interview dates week beginning 9th March

A Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check against the Children’s or Adults’ barred list as applicable will be carried out on preferred candidates. Read our recruitment of ex-offenders policy.

We welcome applications from everyone and actively seek a diverse range of applicants from all backgrounds and cultures. We particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to, women, carers, veterans as well as LGBT+, ethnically diverse, disabled and care experienced people.

This role is based in the UK. Home Office guidance states that candidates must evidence their right to work in the UK prior to commencing employment, either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK, you must consider your own eligibility for sponsorship for a particular role through the Skilled Worker visa route before applying.

To be eligible for sponsorship you’ll usually need to be paid the standard salary rate of at least £41,700 per year or meet one of the other eligibility criteria. Ensure you are eligible before applying.

Provide a key local leadership role for discrete teams of professional social work staff within a designated area to ensure the effective delivery of a high standard of social work centred around the needs of children and young people which ensures that statutory duties and responsibilities of the Local Authority are being met, in line with the Children and Young Peoples Plan.

Working as part of the leadership team you will model values and behaviours to help to achieve our ambition to become the best city in the country, and aspiration shared across our partners to become a child friendly city. You will deliver your own core statutory responsibilities and work with and support your colleagues in delivering our collective responsibilities of keeping all children safe.

• Support the active involvement of children and young people and families in how Children’s Services are delivered and how they contribute to the…