Job Details
1. This is an exciting time to join the Children and Families &Justice Service within the Communities Directorate. The service has undergone a whole system redesign with a renewed focus on Early Intervention and Prevention with a dedicated focus on permanence planning within the enhanced teams with a renewed focus on safe family reunification.
2. This post holder will directly line manage team managers responsible for enhanced teams in the East including the Child Protection Team and the Permanence Lead Officer.
3. A rich experience of managing statutory children and families social work practice is essential.
4. You will need to have a proven track record of innovation and creativity whilst ensuring risk is safely managed and underpinned by a robust assessment process.
5. You will work with partners across Children’s Services and beyond to ensure that collaborative working is establish in localities to support the work of the enhanced teams including leading on Bairns Hoose.
6. The service manager will be skilled in assessing and managing risk and supporting this workforce to identify need and risk and manage this appropriately within this new service reducing the need for multiple services and interventions within a household.
7. You will provide supervision to managers.
8. You will work across Children and Families ensuring a one service approach to responding to the needs of Fife’s children, young people and their families.
9. You will lead and manage staff through this ongoing programme of change. You must be a skilled and experienced leader within the profession of Social Work and have the ability to evidence social work values are core to your leadership and management approaches.
The Person
10. You will be an experienced manager within Social Work and will have held a management position. You will be a motivated and enthusiastic leader who can produce high quality reports, presentations and strategy.
11. You must be able to work in partnership with all staff across the Children and Families, Community Justice and Communities Directorate and have a proven ability to lead integrated services.
12. You need to be a highly motivated and enthusiastic leader who has a track record of managing and implementing change.
13. Experience of leading transformational change
14. Be registered with the SSSC
15. As a progressive employer, we offer the opportunity to work in this role as a “blended working” arrangement with home-working opportunities and office-working as required.
16. Before confirming your appointment, you will be required to obtain *Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme membership, Enhanced Disclosure through Disclosure Scotland.
17. Ability to travel within Fife.