Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a Trustpilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews has an exciting Locum opportunity available for an experienced Interim Head of Corporate Parenting to join a well-established service based in Havering.
Pay Rate: £550 per day (assignment rate)
Contract: Locum ongoing contract
Hours: Full-time
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Duties:
- Work as the operational lead for the delivery of statutory social work services that include but are not limited to children subject to Care Proceedings, Children in Care and Care Experienced Young People within the Corporate Parenting Service.
- Responsible for delivering effective, inclusive leadership and management of the teams, ensuring high-quality services against local and national indicators and targets
Responsible for ensuring practice is in line with current legislation and relevant guidance so that high-quality, effective, assessments, plans and interventions are delivered to timescales, to meet children's and family’s assessed needs and improve outcomes
Has responsibility for XXXX budgets within the relevant services - Has responsibility for ensuring high quality, value for money services including in-house and commissioned providers, and contributes to budget setting, budget monitoring and delivery of services within budget targets
- Advise and contribute to regular reports to the DCS, the Lead Member, the Assistant Directors, other senior leaders, panels, committees and/or relevant boards on performance and practice matters as required
Line manage the Fostering, Children in Care and Leaving Care Service Managers and hold overall management responsibility for the Corporate Parenting Services, and ensure delivery of good quality practice and continuous improvement through the relevant service plans.
Lead and direct the agenda for the Corporate Parenting Service Teams, Managers meetings and any other meeting and committee. - Work outside ‘normal’ office hours as required by their line manager; this will include providing out-of-hours senior management cover on a rota basis. The post holder will be expected to travel to meetings across the borough and nationally on occasion.
Requirements:
- Degree or equivalent in social work
- Current Social Work England registration
- Experience at a senior level in Children’s Services, evidenced by a clear understanding and practical experience of working to improve safeguarding and quality of practice
- Demonstrable work experience in an organisation of similar complexity and political environment managing direct reports to provide professional expertise and advice, establishing and sustaining positive relationships that generate confidence, ability and trust
- Detailed knowledge of the legislation, guidance and procedures for safeguarding within Children Services, Assessment and Children with Disabilities, and the statutory framework in which social workers operate
- Ability to present at meetings and forums including senior managers, stakeholders and elected officials
- Experience in managing a range of resources
- Experience in leading, developing and motivating successful teams to support transformational change and create innovative service models as required
- Experience in effectively working with cross-sector partner agencies to deliver services and proven experience in quality improvement in practice
- A detailed understanding and awareness of the inspection regime for the designated functions
- Experience in establishing a strong performance culture including the reporting of performance, evaluation of service quality and the improvement of service delivery
- Experience in undertaking supervisory roles
Contact: This job is advertised by Billy Holland; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from Social Workers who meet the above requirements.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments: If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
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