This is an exciting time to join the Medway Safeguarding Team as we have recently changed our service delivery model from three safeguarding teams to one overall safeguarding team.
We are also expanding the size of the team and are currently recruiting for an additional Team Manager to join the service.
Working in collaboration with another Team Manager, Senior Social Workers, and the Operations Manager, the successful candidate will be required to provide strong and effective leadership, supporting the Safeguarding Team to deliver positive outcomes for people across Medway, using strengths-based practice.
The Team Managers are responsible for the overall delivery of safe, effective and efficient responses to safeguarding concerns, ensuring that statutory responsibilities are met through high quality safeguarding practice as prescribed by relevant legislation and codes of practice.
Prospective candidates will need to have extensive experience in Safeguarding Adults work, including holding the role of Designated Senior Officer (DSO) or Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) and of chairing safeguarding meetings. In addition, experience of holding and managing complex and high-risk safeguarding cases, including an in-depth knowledge of the Court of Protection is essential for this post. Successful candidates will also be required to have experience in supervising social care staff.
You will be responsible for ensuring that Safeguarding Concerns are screened robustly and progressed in line with required timescales and that S.42 Enquiries are undertaken collaboratively and completed within required timescales.
In addition, you will ensure that Making Safeguarding Personal principles are embedded into practice across the service. You will oversee that mental capacity assessments are undertaken as required and are of high quality.
You will work closely with the Operations Manager to deliver on performance indicators and hold responsibility for the Safeguarding Teams staffing budget.
This role will require the successful candidate to Chair and present at a variety of meeting forums both internally and externally. You will need to possess the skills to accurately and proficiently write reports for senior managers and other forums at short notice as required.
You will be required to act as the Designated Senior Officer for high risk and complex safeguarding cases and for Establishment Concerns.
You will work collaboratively with partners and be proactive in initiating and developing effective partnerships and joint working arrangements with other professionals and agencies, in order to ensure that Safeguarding Concerns are responded to promptly and robustly.
You will be required to work flexibly and autonomously in a high paced environment to meet the frequently changing demands of the service with a requirement to undertake face to face visits as required.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact the recruiting manager, Gulam Robbani on.
In Return We Will Offer You:
* Generous annual leave entitlement
* Generous local government pension scheme package
* Access to wider training and development qualifications
* Flexible working scheme
* Travel plan discounts
* Access to CAREFIRST advice & counselling service
* Employee discount scheme for national and local retailers
Career Progression Frameworks (CPF) have been introduced for all roles at Medway Council. These frameworks provide a mechanism for employees to take ownership of their development within their post and be rewarded accordingly. This means that the salary you will be offered will be at level A unless, based on an assessment against the CPF criteria, you demonstrate that you are meeting the criteria of level B or C. There will be further opportunity once in post to progress from level A to B, and B to C.
When writing your application, it is important to ensure you identify your suitability against the requirements of the job profile, as this information will be used for shortlisting and may contribute to the CPF assessment. Your application may be rejected if the minimum required criteria is not met. Further information relating to the requirements for this role can be found in the CPF Guidance document attached.
The person specification of a job profile is split into three levels:
Level A details the essential criteria that all applicants must be able to demonstrate through their application and interview.
Level B details the developed competencies that an individual who is practised in this role would be able to demonstrate and will be a progression of knowledge, experience and skills from level A.
Level C requires the highest level of competence and applicants would need to fully meet and demonstrate all aspects of the job profile, including qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience.
Our Organisation:
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East of England, made up of the towns of Strood, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham and more rural areas, including the Hoo Peninsula.
Situated in Kent in the South-East of England, the area has plenty of green spaces, excellent facilities and easy access to the national motorway and rail networks, facilitating superb transport links to London.
We provide all local Government services for a quarter of a million people, looking after education, environment, social care, housing, planning, business and much more - everything from frontline services such as rubbish collection and events like the Dickens Festival to work that goes on behind the scenes to ensure services in Medway run smoothly and cost effectively.
Working at Medway Council means that you get to be part of this journey working alongside talented, professional colleagues to drive forward change to transform the lives of our residents and the communities they live in.
Important Information:
Applicants must be able to demonstrate all essential requirements as listed in the job profile.
Equal Opportunities Commitment Statement:
Medway Council is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All appropriately qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
For further information please refer to the Medway information pack available as a download or to view online.
Please be advised that if you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted. All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email.
Please visit http://www.mindfulemployer.net/ for information on how Medway Council put good practices in place to ensure employees and job applicants who declare mental health issues receive the right level of support.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time prior to the closing date.
If you are not contacted within 3 weeks of the advert closing date then you have not been shortlisted.
All recruitment correspondence, including interview letters and contracts of employment will usually be sent out via email, if you require documentation/correspondence in different format such as braille or large print, please contact the Resourcing Team on 01634 332878. #J-18808-Ljbffr