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Edge of Care Team Manager
| Posting date: | 27 November 2024 |
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| Salary: | £54,971 to £58,788 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 December 2024 |
| Location: | Reading |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Reading Borough Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BFC0795 |
Summary
This is a new post within an established service designed to support the development of our edge of care offer. The role will develop in line with our increased understanding of what works locally and informed by emerging evidence-informed practice supporting our wish to respond flexibly and further strengthen our model of delivery. The post holder will manage Key Workers who work with children of all age groups and families where there are identified risks in relation to family breakdown or where there is a need to support families where children are being reunified following a period in care.
Role Responsibilities:
• Lead the edge of care team in the development and delivery of bespoke support packages and effective evidence-informed interventions that recognise the lived experience of the individuals and families and seek to address underlying issues and current concerns and build on strengths in order to achieve positive outcomes.
• Lead on the development of a Team Around the Worker multi-disciplinary approach to supporting young people and families on the edge of care that is able to flexibly respond to emerging needs, themes and trends.
• Liaise with services and agencies across voluntary, community and statutory sectors to establish a clear pathway to support for vulnerable young people on the edge of care.
• Model and embed trauma-informed, restorative and motivational practice in approaches to management, supervision and delivery.
• Lead on implementing and embedding agreed frameworks eg. NSPCC Reunification Framework and new ways of working with families on the edge of the care.
• Support the identification, analysis and delivery of new ways of working with young people and families on the edge of care, based on evidence-informed practice.
• Lead on quality assurance and performance management of the team, including ensuring that impact and outcomes are demonstrated, and performance issues are addressed.
• Lead on recruitment, induction, training and personal development, absence management, retention, grievance/discipline/capability, succession planning & workforce planning of direct employees within the team.
• Ensure that service level agreements and information sharing protocols are developed, reviewed and kept up-to-date for all services contributing to the multi-disciplinary team. Liaise and work collaboratively with managers within partner agencies to resolve any issues swiftly, and to develop quality and capacity within the service.
• Provide support flexibly in response to young people’s and families’ needs including early mornings, evenings and occasional weekends where needed and appropriate managed within a flexible 37-hour week.
• Undertake or ensure that professional supervision of staff appraisals and staff development activities are in place to a high standard.
• Ensure reports on performance and information is in line with national and local requirements where needed.
• Contribute to and participate in analysis and use of service performance data to improve the effectiveness and impact of service delivery.
• Authorise and manage expenditures within prescribed delegated budget; contribute to resource planning for area of responsibility; monitor and evaluate contracts supporting packages of support or service delivery as required.
Essential Qualifications:
• DipSW or equivalent Social Work qualification plus continued Registration with Social Work England
• Management experience in a children’s services setting with evidence of continued professional development.
• Knowledge and understanding of the complexity and contexts of vulnerabilities and risks that young people experience and the complex needs of families where children are on the edge of care.
Essential knowledge, skills and experience:
• Substantial experience and direct management experience within a children’s services setting with families requiring intensive support.
• Experience of effective risk assessment and risk management in case work, including using professional supervision as required.
• Effective use of quality performance management systems covering quality assurance as well as impact and effectiveness of services.
• Experience of effectively and productively chairing complex meetings.
• Experience of building and maintaining effective partnerships with other agencies and schools to improve the outcomes for children and families.
• Experience and knowledge of the legal and social care policy framework.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Brighter Futures for Children to be a great place to work and to ensure that our children, young people and families are represented in leadership roles and positions of power. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our children, young people and families so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
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If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please let us know.
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