HEAD OF SERVICE

HEAD OF SERVICE
Corporate Parenting and Disabilities
Pay rate:  £600.00 per day

We are looking for an experienced and passionate HEAD OF SERVICE,  With responsibility for Corporate Parenting and Disabilities Service. As a Head of Service, you will provide expert and detailed advice to the Service Director, DCS and elected Members on a range of matters associated with your role. At the heart of everything you do, will be a passion to ensure that children, young people and their families achieve positive and improved outcomes are effectively safeguarded. You will lead, motivate and inspire others to deliver the best standards of practice, demonstrated by achieving both local and national performance expectations. This post is centred on the leadership of our Front Door Services with a remit for service improvement and delivering an excellent safeguarding response to children and families in need of statutory investigation and intervention. You will be working in a multi –agency environment, line managing our multi agency safeguarding hub, Out of Hours, and our Initial Response Service. You must be a qualified social worker, registered with Social Work England. A leadership or management qualification or evidence of higher related study would be an advantage.

You will be committed to the national statutory post qualifying standards for your own continuing professional development, joining an authority where these are nationally recognised as well embedded. You should demonstrate in your written statement key areas of learning and progression in your own journey. You will bring to the role considerable management experience including managing others and service budgets. You will be able to talk in interview about your experience of managing and motivating teams to achieve significant service improvements and improved outcomes for children and young people. As an individual, you will embrace change as an opportunity for innovation and will have a track record in performance gains. You will be able practice with confident authority in relation to key aspects for safeguarding children, ensuring that statutory guidance is followed. This confidence will enable you to take lead roles in quality assurance and inspection activity.
 
Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• BA/MA/BSc/MSc Social Work, CQSW, DipSW, CSS or CCETSW approved equivalent).
• Must have experience managing a hospital discharge service
• Enhanced DBS
• 4 Years plus Qualified

 
In this role you will:

• Provide strategic leadership for a range of statutory children’s social care services, ensuring that safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children is paramount.  
• Responsible for the development, implementation and monitoring of an annual business plan by ensuring effective performance management, including identification of risk and capacity issues across the held portfolio of services.  
• Take lead responsibility for the development and implementation of specific projects within Children’s Social Care in accordance with the Directorate’s and Council’s strategic priorities and manage all communication and risk issues.  
• To ensure that the corporate parenting principles are embedded and the statutory responsibilities to children in care are met across children’s social care.
• Act as the senior representative on the regional adoption agency’s Operational Board providing support and challenge to drive continuous improvement and ensure that sufficiency of adopters is achieved. 
• To take a lead role in the Corporate Parenting Board by working with the Lead Member for Children’s Social Care, ensuring that the work programme is reflective of the key issues and needs of children and young people in care. 
• To work with colleagues to ensure that the Council’s sufficiency duty is met, and children and young people experience safe and stable placements and accommodation. 
• You will have the drive and passion to deliver excellent services and improve practice quality standards, to ensure a positive difference and brighter future for our children and young people and their families/carers.
• Act as Responsible Individual for Council run children’s homes and the Fostering Service and be accountable and meet the Ofsted requirements of this role

 
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.

We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, Children in Need, Duty and Assessment, Child Protection, Children Looked After, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Neighbourhood, Hospital Discharge, Safeguarding, Mental Health, Transitions & Review Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.