What's involved with this role: Interim Service Leader - Kinship Adoption Fostering Reference no: Portsmouth 5256230 Pay Rate: up to £40.00 per hour PAYE depending on experience 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours This opening assignment is for 5 months City: PORTSMOUTH Enhanced DBS disclosure required You will work closely with the Service Leader for Foster Care Support & Placements Team, providing support and cover for each other when necessary. Key Responsibilities: Lead a service of team leaders, social workers, and other staff. Meet and work within the agency deadlines and timescales to ensure the efficient running of the service. Provide analytical reports when required. Ensure all statutory requirements are met and delivered to a high standard. Respect confidentiality and adhere to the confidentiality policy. Lead quality assurance activity, which will include service audits and regulatory inspections. Ensure all team requirements are met regarding workforce development; performance management; supervision and appraisal; compliance with statutory guidance and local policies and procedures; quality improvements; and budget management. Supervise team leaders and assist with complex decision making processes about social work intervention and safeguarding. Work closely and collaboratively with other managers in the service and a range of partner agencies. Work creatively and flexibly within the resources available, ensuring standards and best practice are applied. Qualifications: Have a recognised professional qualification in social work (Social Work Diploma/Degree/MSc or equivalent) and be registered with Social Work England. Knowledge: Have knowledge of statutory procedures and local standards/processes to inform good practice. Have good working knowledge and be able to practise anti-discriminatory practice, addressing equality of opportunity issues. Experience: Have experience in kinship care, fostering and adoption. Have substantial post qualification experience in social work with children and families. This should include management experience at least at a team leader/manager level. Skills & Abilities: Have the skills to develop strong relationships, working in a relational way where person-centred values and restoring relationships are at the heart of all your activities. Have excellent organisational, communication (written/verbal), IT, and financial skills. Be able to take responsibility for own learning and evidence effective professional development. Be curious and creative and above all have a 'can do' attitude. You will be able to work as part of a team and ensure that practice contributes to strategic priorities. Demonstrate a level of authority and to be able to support, challenge and scrutinise professional practice. Contribute to the process of staff development through coaching and mentoring. Manage stress and assist others in developing strategies for prioritising work and balancing competing demands/pressures in which to achieve good outcomes for children. Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobstclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. ALD Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please