To lead, manage and coach a team of social workers responsible for delivering high quality assessments of connected (kinship) carers to ensure that vulnerable children and young people are placed within their families whenever it is safe to do so.
To lead the team to provide comprehensive Special Guardianship Support Services to ensure those families are supported to provide good and effective care to those children throughout their childhood.
To improve outcomes for children and young people by developing effective partnership working with other Council services and partner agencies to ensure efficient delivery of the service.
To have oversight of the Family Time (Contact) Service to ensure that this commissioned service continues to deliver a high quality service for children and their families
To contribute towards delivering the council’s vision for Children’s Social Care in order to ensure the objectives and priorities are realised.
To be competent in all areas of the PCF at Advanced Social Worker level and The Knowledge and Skills Statement (KSS) for practice supervisors.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
Lead, manage and motivate a staff team ensuring high quality supervision is completed regularly, which includes case management oversight, timely decision making, the effective supervision of and support to connected carers to ensure the highest standards of care to children, and provides the opportunity to ...