Head of Children's Social Work - Up to £75,000
Joining us in this exceptionally influential role is your opportunity to be at the heart of an innovative plan that will place social work at the heart of Bexley, and children at the heart of social work. After reviewing our services and investing to improve them, we've adopted a social care philosophy that will empower the people who deliver it. With your help, we'll increase our capacity, inspire ambitions, cut paperwork and get professionals back on cases, where they belong.
About the role:
Essentially, you'll oversee the delivery of safe and efficient services by our front line social work teams. These will include our Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub, our Referral and Assessment Service, and 5 Locality Teams, who hold all long term social work interventions for child protection, looked after children and complex children in need.
You'll make a major contribution to realising our vision for the future, by empowering our staff to use their skills as professionals to achieve the best outcomes for children in Bexley.
Your experience:
We're looking for someone with experience of successfully transforming underperforming children's social care services into high performing ones. You'll need to have led and managed relevant services, including high risk and high complexity work. This must be backed up with a track record of developing a highly motivated, high achieving and stable workforce - one with a positive, customer-centred culture.
Your ability:
Underpinning everything will be your ability to lead and manage change effectively, both at a strategic and operational level. As an effective project manager, you can deal with high risk and high complexity in a way that delivers the best outcomes. You're skilled in working with a range of partners and stakeholders to develop effective solutions. You're also able to produce high quality, analytical and evidence-based reports. Not least, you can plan and control budgets, and achieve best value.
Children's Services at Bexley
Since underperforming in our last safeguarding Ofsted inspection in 2012, we have thoroughly reviewed our service and taken onboard recommendations, including Munro and other core social work philosophies. There's much work to be done. But while safeguarding was found to be inadequate, other services were Good (LAC and Adoption) or Outstanding (Fostering). This gives us all a great base to build from.
Why work for us?
We've a substantial commitment to improve services. In fact, we're investing an additional £5.2m over the next 3 years, on top of existing budgets. By joining us now, you'll have the support and resources to bring a new culture and pace into this service. For ambitious and resilient professionals, it's an opportunity to achieve outstanding performance.
Next steps
If you would like to discuss the role with one of our consultants please call Michael Earnshaw on 0207 332 7806 or Jonathan Swain on 07500 961727. Alternatively, please email Bexley@penna.com to request a candidate information pack.
Head of Commissioning and Resources Up to £75,000 Bexley
Joining us in this exceptionally influential role is your opportunity to be at the heart of an innovative plan that will place social work at the heart of Bexley, and children at the heart of social work. After reviewing our services and investing to improve them, we've adopted a social care philosophy that will empower the people who deliver it. With your help, we'll increase our capacity, inspire ambitions, cut paperwork and get professionals back on cases, where they belong.
About the role
You'll drive and coordinate the delivery of high quality standards across our directorate by directly line managing our Fostering service, Placements service, Adoption and Permanence, 16+ LAC and Leaving Care Service, and our Joint Service Manager of CAMHS. We'll expect you to take the lead in planning and designing initiatives that will improve the quality and standards of social work practice with a particular emphasis and lead for looked after children services.
By applying resources innovatively, you'll make a major contribution to realising our vision for the future.
Your experience:
To join us, you'll need experience of successfully transforming children's social care services into high performing services, and maintaining those high standards. We'll expect you to have led and managed children's social care services relevant to this role (including high risk and high complexity work). It's also important that you've a track record of developing highly motivated, high achieving teams who have the positivity and 'can-do' approach needed to deliver high quality performance.
Your ability:
We're looking for a professional who can lead, think, plan and manage systemically, as well as operationally. You'll need the ability to transform services and practice and introduce innovative service models effectively.
Your highly developed project management skills will prove essential, as will your ability to devise quality assurance frameworks. Not least, you plan and control budgets, and produce high quality, analytical and evidence-based reports.
Children's Services at Bexley
Since underperforming in our last Ofsted safeguarding inspection in 2012, we have thoroughly reviewed our service and taken onboard recommendations, including Munro and other core social work philosophies. There's much work to be done. But while safeguarding was found to be inadequate, inadequate, many others were Good (LAC and Adoption) or Outstanding (Fostering). This gives us all a great base to build from. Although this role will be mainly managing services in the good and outstanding categories
Why work for us?
We've a substantial commitment to improve services. In fact, we're investing an additional £5.2m over the next 3 years, on top of existing budgets. By joining us now, you'll have the support and resources to bring a new culture and pace into this service. For ambitious and resilient professionals, it's an opportunity to achieve outstanding performance.
Next steps:
If you would like to discuss the role with one of our consultants please call Michael Earnshaw on 0207 332 7806 or Jonathan Swain on 07500 961727. Alternatively, please email Bexley@penna.com to request a candidate information pack.
Head of Professional Standards and Quality Up to £75,000 Bexley
Joining us in this exceptionally influential role is your opportunity to be at the heart of an innovative plan that will enable our Children's Social Workers to work better and smarter. After reviewing our services and investing millions of pounds to improve them, we've switched to a social care philosophy that will empower the people who deliver it. With your help, we'll increase our capacity, inspire ambitions, cut paperwork and get professionals back on cases, where they belong.
About the role:
You'll be directly responsible for managing:
- The Reviewing Service, including the IRO's and CP Conference Chairs
- A Professional Practice Manager, x2 Professional Educators and a Children's OD Officer
- The LSCB Manager and the LSCB service
- A Corporate Parenting Manager
- The Permanence and Adoption Adviser to the ADM
We'll look to you to take the strategic lead in planning and designing initiatives that will improve the quality of social work practice in the children's social care service. By applying your knowledge of professional development, you'll make a major contribution to realising our vision for the future.
Your experience:
To join us, we're looking for a professional who has experience of transforming underperforming children's social care services into high performing ones. In addition, you must have a track record of managing teams or individuals that are relevant to Professional Development and Quality - including those associated with high risk and high complexity work. Your experience of developing a positive, high achieving team with a "can-do" approach will also be invaluable.
Your ability:
We're looking for a professional who can lead, think, plan and manage systemically, as well as operationally. You'll need the ability to transform services and practice and introduce innovative service models effectively. Your highly effective project management skills will prove essential, as will your ability to devise and embed quality assurance frameworks. Not least, you plan and control budgets, and produce high quality, analytical and evidence-based reports.
Children's Services at Bexley
Since underperforming in our last Ofsted inspection in 2012, we have thoroughly reviewed our service and taken onboard recommendations, including Munro and other core social work philosophies. There's much work to be done. But while a few of our areas were found to be inadequate, many others were Good (LAC and Adoption) or Outstanding (Fostering). This gives us all a great base to build from.
Why work for us?
We've a substantial commitment to improve services. In fact, we're investing an additional £5.2m over the next 3 years, on top of existing budgets. By joining us now, you'll have the support and resources to bring a new culture and pace into this service. For ambitious and resilient professionals, it's an opportunity to achieve outstanding performance.
Next steps
If you would like to discuss the role with one of our consultants please call Michael Earnshaw on 0207 332 7806 or Jonathan Swain on 07500 961727. Alternatively, please email Bexley@penna.com to request a candidate information pack.
