The postholder will manage staff within their team and will be key to ensuring a high level of engagement with multi agency partners in the geographic area of operation. The post holder will be instrumental in ensuring good service outcomes across agencies to meet OFSTED inspection standards. The postholder will ensure the delivery of high quality and timely assessment of childrens needs and appropriate decision making concerning child protection and social care. The postholder will actively manage and monitor budgets to ensure services are delivered to financial targets. Ensure delivery of a service in a specialised field of social work in accordance with legislative requirements, all relevant policies and procedures and to agreed performance targets. Ensure the effective assessment and management of risk with regard to keeping children and young people safeguarded and promoting positive and sustainable outcomes. Provide leadership, advice and support in relation to complex cases. Ensure professional decisions are made according to the highest standards, using an evidence base which stands up to scrutiny. Provide appropriate challenge to the decisions of other staff within the team. Have a lead role in ensuring all service delivery including that of multi-agency partners meets high OFSTED standards Manage the allocation of workload to agreed service priorities, monitor team and individual performance and resolve workload issues as they arise Drive performance management and quality assurance and ensure value for money in services delivered by the team; act on inadequate performance as appropriate.