Head of Service

My Social Work News; Greater London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is looking for a Head of Service for Children & Young People with Disabilities in Greater London. The successful candidate will lead the service, ensuring high standards and compliance with statutory requirements, as well as developing staff through training. Candidates should have a relevant social work qualification, experience in management within Children’s Social Care, and a strong understanding of legislation. The salary is up to £101,234 per annum, and the position is full-time based in Barking & Dagenham.

Qualifications

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Worked in a Senior Management role, or as an Operational Manager in Children’s Social Care.
• Strong knowledge of statutory expectations for Children’s Social Care.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Children & Young People with Disabilities Service.
• Ensure high standards of service delivery across all areas.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and guidance.
• Manage high-quality assessments, risk analysis, and care planning.
• Ensure timely transfer of cases across different service areas.
• Work with the Learning & Development Team for ongoing staff training.
• Provide key management information on service performance.
• Allocate social workers to children in need and maintain statutory visits.
• Review and audit casework regularly for continuous improvement.
• Promote effective multi-agency work for children with additional needs.

Job description

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Head of Service within the Children & Young People with Disabilities Service to work full time based in Barking & Dagenham.

The salary for this Head of Service job is up to £101,234 per annum.

Responsibilities

• To lead and continually develop the Children & Young People with Disabilities Service.
• To ensure high standards of service delivery in all areas of work related to the work of the Children & Young People with Disabilities Service.
• To ensure that service delivery is compliant with legislation and guidance, local and national policy and procedures across all service areas.
• To ensure high standards of casework that is working to standards in line with OFSTED good or outstanding. This includes high-quality assessments, risk analysis, case recording, care planning, and other related work areas.
• To ensure safe, timely and appropriate transfer of cases across Early Help, Children’s Social Care and Adults Social Care.
• To ensure that the work of the service is in line with performance management expectations.
• To work with the Learning & Development Team to promote the professional development of early help practitioners, social workers, team managers and other staff and to contribute to the design and delivery of appropriate training.
• To ensure management information systems are in place to provide key information on performance across the Service and to use this information to plan continually improving performance.
• To ensure that all children identified as in need, subject to a child protection plan or in care have an allocated social worker and that children who are subject to a protection plan and who are looked after are visited in accordance with statutory timescales.
• To ensure that early help and social care casework across the Service is regularly reviewed and audited and that key themes arising from audits are addressed within a culture of continuous improvement.
• To ensure that support is provided at the earliest opportunity to children and young people with additional needs and disabilities through the intervention of the Portage Team and the CYPD Family Hub.
• To ensure there is effective multi-agency working together for all children and young people with additional needs and disabilities.
• Ensure that there is focus on promoting whole family assessment, family plans, outcomes focused interventions and reviews.

Qualifications

Requirements of this Head of Service:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Worked in a Senior Management role, or as an Operational Manager in Children’s Social Care and possess a strong knowledge of statutory expectations for Children’s Social Care.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Registered or eligible for registration.

Contact: This Head of Service job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; 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.