Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified (Kingston & Richmond)
Location : Guildhall Complex, Achieving for Children
Hours Per Week : 28.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:15
Salary: £42.00
We require an experienced social work manager who has skills, knowledge and experience within child sexual abuse, contextual safeguarding and/or trauma informed practice with adolescents.
About the role
The role will provide social work management expertise, contextual safeguarding experience and a trauma informed approach. The role will provide additional capacity to the current management team leading on the investigation to support the ongoing mapping, coordination and liaison. The role will provide both emotional and practical support to the service, bringing your expertise and knowledge with calm oversight and detailed approach.
You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills in order to support the investigation, joint working and multi agency approach to this complex matter. You will support the management team to provide regular updates to the Associate Director and Complex Abuse Strategic group in regard to progress of the investigation and any barriers or support needs. You will provide a quality assurance role in regard to auditing files, mapping, administrative and coordination.
In all roles across AfC the post holders will be expected to develop and lead a culture of partnership and innovation, so that services are child focussed, flexible and adaptable. The whole organisation should learn from mistakes, share knowledge and challenge existing practice.
About you: our role specification
Qualifications
Educated to degree level with a social work qualification and HCPC registration
Evidence of continuing professional development and experience within contextual safeguarding, complex child abuse and/or sexual abuse investigations
Skills and experience
Significant social work practice and experience of managing service delivery for vulnerable children and young people, with particular experience working with adolescents within statutory framework i.e. youth justice, childrenʼs social care
Ability to manage high and complex levels of risk, including safeguarding and public protection stemming from contextual factors
Experience of managing case workers who deliver social work with adolescents and their parents/families with contextual safeguarding issues
Experience of managing people, performance and professional development to get the best out of the team
Experience of effective risk management within delivery of services to vulnerable children, young people and general public
Strong experience of working within an integrated working environment, including effective multi-agency working
Experience of effective recording, monitoring, evaluation and quality assurance of interventions within case work practice using a wide range of tools and Management Information Systems
Strong awareness of risk management and safeguarding in the context of social care including legislation, policy and procedures related to responsibilities
Proven ability to effectively use data, intelligence and evidence to create meaningful insight and to inform own decision making.
Experience of addressing specific equality or diversity issues within your practice with colleagues/service users and taking action to solve them.