Access To Resources team Manager LBS-012
Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified
Location : Talfourd Place, Southwark Council
Hours Per Week : 36.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:15
Salary: £35.67
Access To Resources Team Manager (Children’s Services)
To work across the placement Quality Assurance Team and Access To Resources Team according to need
Ensuring our children and young people have the best possible placements that are proportionate to their assessed needs and that help them to achieve their full potential is absolutely key. You will be a very experienced, highly motivated, well organised and determined colleague who understands why we must get placements and support right for our children. We operate in a fast paced and dynamic market place and your work style and work ethic must reflect this.
CHILDREN’s SERVICES: To work as part of the Access To Resources Team and or Placement Quality Assurance Team – responding quickly to referrals from Social Work Teams seeking the right placement and support for our children and young people.
This is a hybrid role requiring colleagues to be in the office at least 2 days / week and 5 days for the week when they are on duty
Knowledge, including educational qualifications:
Essential
- Must hold a recognised social work qualification or
equivalent child care equivalent qualification. - Knowledge of the placement needs of looked after children.
- A strong interest in promoting permanence and placement
stability. - Knowledge of safeguarding procedures and key fostering
and residential legislation, guidance and National Minimum
Standards. - Knowledge of roles and responsibilities of key children’s
agencies.
Experience:
- Experience of leadership and management in the public
sector, and the ability to support staff working in a pressured
environment. - Experience of developing and managing information
systems and using data to monitor and evaluate
performance. - Experience of managing a team and working across
organisational boundaries to achieve positive outcomes for
children. - Experience of working with foster carers and a commitment
to achieving placement stability through the development of
placement support services.
10.Experience of interpreting performance data from a
complex database to ensure sound strategic management
of the service.
11.Experience of working on own initiative, organise
workloads, determine priorities and meet deadlines.
12.Experience of financial and resource management within a
social care environment.
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