TM - Family Help Team (£44.00ph)

Location: Dudley B64

Contract: Ongoing   

Rate: £44.00

Start: ASAP  

About the role: 

• Responsible for the leadership and management of a social work team, ensuring that vulnerable children and their families receive responsive services that safeguard and promote their welfare.

• To provide operational leadership, vision and direction by delivering service improvement within children’s social work.

• Actively promote and contribute to the strategic developments for children and their families in Dudley.

• Responsible over: Social Workers, ASYE’s, Trainee Social Workers and Young Person’s Advisors

MANAGING ACTIVITIES

• To have full responsibility for the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers, in line with legislation, guidance and local policy and procedures.

• To make highly complex decisions relating to social service provision for children, young people and their families within Dudley.

• To manage allocation of work in accordance with priorities, ensuring that assessments, care plans and reviews are implemented where required and ensure that all statutory timescales are met.

• To work collaboratively with partner agencies, within the children’s division and in the voluntary sector to ensure multi-agency assessment, planning, intervention and review.

• To negotiate the provision of services with voluntary and external agencies that supports the delivery of services to children, young people, their families and carers.

• To contribute to the management of services as a member of the Children’s Services Management Team.

• To promote effective internal and external communication.

• To chair and participate in working groups, task groups, and to be fully involved in Service planning, Child Protection Conferences and associated review processes.

• To ensure the requirements of appropriate child care legislation and guidance are understood by all members of staff. This should be disseminated during team meetings and within supervision.

• To monitor and review effective workload management and to ensure performance management / quality of case work is being maintained.

• To contribute to the development of the Service Plan.

MANAGING RESOURCES

• To ensure that thresholds for service intervention have been met

• To effectively manage delegated budgets allocated to children’s Services and to ensure value for money and effective use of resources, utilising best value principles.

• Delivery of service within allocated budget(s) and in compliance with the Council’s financial and other regulations.

• Make arrangements for the payment of grants to children, young people, their families and carers.

This post is subject to the DBS checking process 

The post holder must be able to drive, hold a valid full driving licence and have the use of a vehicle.

Driving Licence will be subject to checking with the DVLA. It is a council requirement to have Business Use Car Insurance and a valid MOT certificate (For cars over 3 years old)