The job itself
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Children's Services have been rated GOOD by Ofsted following our recent ILACS inspection. Since the last inspection in 2019, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all of the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement. Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it.
A great and exciting opportunity has arisen within the Participation, Innovation, and Improvement portfolio for an experienced social worker/manager to join the service in the role of Designated Social Care Lead for SEND. This role forms part of our continued improvement activity in driving strength based, relational and collaborative practice in our work with children, young people, and their networks.
This role will strategically lead in framing and developing social care elements of the SEND strategy across the local authority, in compliance with legislative requirements of the SEND Code of Practice (2015). The leader will have in-depth knowledge and understanding of both social care operations and the SEND reforms agenda and will identify areas where social care is weak or noncompliant with the SEND Code of Practice - generating solutions and implementing strategies and plans to address this.
Key responsibilities include:
* A strategic role accountable for developing strategies, action plans and processes which support and enable the SEND reforms agenda to become embedded within social care operations and practice.
* Contributing to and influencing SEND organisational design and assisting in the development of 0-25 Children & Young People with Disabilities Service and its policies.
* Establishing and leading a network of social care SEND champions and link workers.
* Facilitating and overseeing the implementation of the SEND agenda within social care through this network and gathering insight and intelligence from them and other groups such as the parent carer forum to inform future planning.
* Responsibility for developing social care aspects of the Local Offer that provide relevant advice and information and meet all legislative requirements.
* Working collaboratively with social care directors and managers to ensure social care meet statutory responsibilities under the Children & Families Act (2014) and Care Act (2014).
* Responsibility for framing social care elements of the local authority's self-evaluation process to ensure readiness for SEND Ofsted & CQC Inspections.
The Office Base for this role will be County Hall, Beverley although will work across the East Riding of Yorkshire footprint alongside the Heads of Service within the service. Working arrangements will be hybrid and working days are Monday to Friday.
The right candidate:
You will be required to work with service leads, front line managers and front-line practitioners to agreed outcome focused requirements in driving up practice across CYPSSS. You will demonstrate good experience of front-line practice, within a children's social work service with an ability to identify what good practice looks like.
You will need to be social work qualified and have strong experience of social work practice and experience of developing others, as well as a solid understanding of SEND practice related matters.
If you meet all of these qualities, have the right value base, and are an innovative leader, then what are you waiting for? Apply now and make a difference.
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