CSM (23856)

Company

Barnardo's

Location

Bradford

Employment Hours

New Jobs

Employment Type

Permanent

Salary

£43,714 - £51,462 a year

Job Highlights

Lead and manage a portfolio of commissioned services that improve outcomes for children, young people, and families in Bradford.
Ideal candidates will have significant experience with children and families, with strong leadership and safeguarding knowledge.
This is a full-time role based in Bradford, offering the chance to impact the community positively and work with various stakeholders.

Job Requirements/Description

We are looking for a Children's Services Manager with excellent leadership skills, strategic vision and a passion for improving outcomes for children, young people and families.

Barnardo's is seeking an experienced and motivated Children's Service Manager to lead a portfolio of commissioned services across Bradford. This is an exciting opportunity to manage established, evidence-based services that support children, young people, families and women through early intervention, emotional wellbeing and family support programmes.

About the Role

As Children's Service Manager, you will:

Provide effective leadership and management across multiple services.
Lead, support and develop staff teams to deliver high-quality services and achieve positive outcomes.
Ensure all safeguarding responsibilities are met and embedded throughout service delivery.
Manage performance, quality assurance and service improvement activities.
Oversee budgets and financial performance, ensuring effective use of resources.
Build and maintain strong relationships with commissioners, partners and key stakeholders.

About You

We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate:

Significant experience working with children, young people and families.
Experience leading and managing services and staff teams.
Strong knowledge and understanding of safeguarding and child protection.
Experience working collaboratively with commissioners, partner agencies and stakeholders.
The ability to monitor performance, analyse data and produce high-quality management reports.
Experience of budget management and financial oversight.
Excellent communication, leadership and organisational skills.

Why Barnardo's?

At Barnardo's, we believe in:

Respecting the unique worth of every person.
Encouraging people to fulfil their potential.
Working with hope.
Exercising responsible stewardship.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and communities.

For more information about the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required, please refer to the Person Specification and Additional Information Sheet.

Interested in joining us and making a lasting difference? Visit the Barnardo's Careers Site to and submit your application.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible

Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
Service related sick pay from day 1
Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
Cycle2work scheme
Interest free season ticket loans
Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
20% discount at Barnardo's stores
Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values

Reference number:

23856
Job Title:

CSM
Location:

Barnardo's Bradford Services
Contract type:

Permanent
Hours:

37 hours
Salary:

£43,714 - £51,462
Closing Date:

26 October 2026
Interview Date:

Monday 9th Nov