Service Manager
Fostering and Adoption
Location: North Yorkshire
Pay rate: £41 per hour
We are looking for an experienced and passionate Service Manager to lead Fostering and Adoption Service in the North Yorkshire. You will be responsible for Line Managers of four Fostering Team Managers and one Adoption Manager. You will attend Management meeting with Senior Managers and cover the Area Manager for Children Looked After and Leaving Care when they are on annual leave. You will also improve performance and compliance and provide monthly reports on performance and compliance. The purpose of the post is to support the work to improve the standard of practice across the Service and take responsibility for the day to day running of all aspects of the Fostering and Adoption Service.
Perfect candidate will be:
1. Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
2. BA/MA/BSc/MSc Social Work, CQSW, DipSW, CSS or CCETSW approved equivalent).
3. Must have experience managing a hospital discharge service
4. Enhanced DBS
5. 4 Years plus Qualified
In this role you will:
6. Have day to day operational responsibility for ensuring the smooth running of all aspects of discharge planning and processing, ensuring local and national standards are achieved.
7. Support the site lead Operations Director in the delivery of strategic and operational objectives to achieve discharge at the right time, first time.
8. Undertake continual review of the hospital adult social work team processes to ensure a co-ordinated and partnership approach to discharge management and minimise delayed transfers of care
9. Lead, manage and support the team through change and the development of new roles and associated ways of working in line with integration.
10. Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
11. Manage an agreed case load.
12. Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
13. Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
14. Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.
This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Harrogate, Doncaster, Hull, Tadcaster, Haxby, Bishop Wilton, Leeds, Wetherby, York, Tadcaster, Heslington, Leeds, York, Wakefield, Bradford, Huddersfield, Manchester, Rochdale, Normanton, Pontefract, Keighley, Shipley, Batley, Bingley, Otley, Halifax, Burnley, Sheffield, Oldham, Manchester, Bolton, Blackburn, Preston, Stockport, Halifax, Rotherham and Doncaster
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), MASH, CLA, Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.
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