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Job Description
The Service & Team:
The Disabled Children & Therapy Service (DC&TS) is a specialist, multi-disciplinary team dedicated to supporting disabled children, young people, and their families. We work with those whose primary needs stem from a physical or mental impairment that is both substantial and long-term, significantly affecting their ability to carry out everyday activities.
Our service steps in when a child's needs go beyond what Early Support services can provide. DC&TS brings together a range of statutory and therapeutic services, including:
* Children in Need, Child Protection, and Children in Care social work
* Occupational Therapy
* Disabled Children Family Workers
* Portage (early intervention support)
* Personal Budgets and Direct Payments
* Residential Children's Homes
* Short Breaks and Family-Based Short Breaks
The Role:
The post-holder will lead the management and ongoing development of Early Support and Family Help services, with a particular focus on Portage and Supporting Change In Partnership (SCIP).
They will oversee the allocation of work, provide supervision and support to staff, and ensure robust quality assurance and performance management processes are in place. This is all aimed at achieving the best possible outcomes for disabled children, young people, and their families across Cornwall. The role also includes responsibility for ensuring services are delivered effectively within budget.
As a key member of the DC&TS Management Group, the successful candidate will also contribute to the strategic development of the wider service.
This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.
This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.
Working Pattern:
This is a full time permanent post working Monday to Friday.
What you'll need to succeed:
* Experience of managing a large team of employees who work in the community.
* Experience of creative / innovative development work, particularly working in co-production with disabled children, young people and their families.
* Knowledge of the needs of disabled children, young people & their families.
* Ability to deliver a service within budget.
Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What you'll get in return:
Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.
Our core employee rewards and benefits include:
* a competitive salary.
* a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
* a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
* A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
* Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.
Additional Information:
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
The full role profile is attached here.
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.
For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Yvette Yates - Yvette.Yates@cornwall.gov.uk
Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here - The application process.
Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact careers@cornwall.gov.uk if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.
Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.
About Us
Cornwall Council deliver services to more than half a million local people and over five million visitors a year. Working here - Cornwall Council
We are happy to talk about flexible working options such as part-time or compressed hours. More examples of our flexible working opportunities can be found here - flexible working options.
Fairness and inclusion are at the heart of our vision for Cornwall. In order to best serve our communities, we are striving to achieve a diverse workforce that is inclusive of all backgrounds, cultures and identities; e.g., race, disability, sex, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation. We are an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, and we will assess applicants on their merits.
Cornwall Council is committed to safeguarding and following safer recruitment principles to help make sure our staff and volunteers are suitable to work with children, young people and adults at risk. It's a vital part of creating a safe and positive environment and making a commitment to keeping all service users safe from harm.
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