Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Reviewing Service Manager to work Full Time based in Southend.
The salary for this permanent Reviewing Service Manager job is up to £63,616per annum.
Main duties:
- To support the Head of Service in providing strong leadership for the service area based on a clear vision for the outcomes to be achieved for children on child protection plans and children looked after.
- To manage the administration and chairing arrangements for initial and review child protection conferences, statutory reviews of CLA, in accordance with relevant legislation and guidance.
- To provide good quality supervision and professional support to IRO’s and CP Chairs.
- To ensure the views of children and young people subject to these procedures are given full consideration, recorded, and acted upon wherever possible.
- To provide consultation, advice, and information to operational staff in Children’s Services and in other agencies (as requested) on matters relating to Child Protection Conferences and in relation to CLA reviews.
- To provide expert advice and inform strategic priorities, development and improvement activity supporting SCF to achieve its vision successfully.
- To lead on specific projects that support the ongoing improvement and development of Reviewing Service and SCF’s vision and priorities.
- To resolve conflict at the earliest opportunity, and where this is not possible, to implement the agreed escalation procedure.
- To work closely with partners, ensuring their contribution to the CP and CLA processes are meeting the required standard of Working Together 2018 and Car Planning Regulations and provide robust partnership challenge when this is not the case.
- To contribute to the operation of the Slough Safeguarding Partnership supporting and participating in activity as relevant.
- To contribute to the development of quality standards, performance indicators and best practice in line with the Quality Assurance and Performance Management frameworks, including ensuring thee are sensitive to ethnic, cultural, and religious needs and those of other disadvantaged groups.
- To produce quarterly and annual management accountability reports on the Reviewing Service performance and activity.
- To plan, monitor and deliver the Reviewing Team’s performance using management information systems and regular direct observation of work.
- To provide management oversight to ensure that risk is identified and managed in a timely way that is sensitive to the needs of the community in Slough.
- To develop effective liaison with Managers and Heads of Service and challenge, scrutinising practice, ensuring continuous improvement, and identifying capability gaps within the service and taking appropriate action to improve staff performance.
Requirements of this Reviewing Service Manager role:
- A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
- Understanding of relevant legislation.
- Registered or eligible for registration.
- Significant experience at a management level in children’s services.
- A successful track record and background of consistent achievement in managing change, optimising best value and quality services through the management of services.
Contact:
This Reviewing Service Manager job is advertised by Alex Moon; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
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.
