Service Manager - Fostering - North Essex
- Employer
- Essex County Council
- Location
- England, Essex, Colchester
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- 7 Oct 2020
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- Job role
- Social Worker
- Contract Type
- Contract
The successful candidate will work across Colchester and Clacton with management and strategic responsibility for two fostering teams, a psychologist and the Contact Service in North quadrant.
Service Managers are accountable for performance and delivery of a service area. This leader will have extensive social care experience; an understanding of current issues and the ability to ensure the innovative use of resources to improve productivity and quality outcomes. Contributing to the development of policy and strategy, this leader will build strong, credible working relationships with internal and external services and partners, driving and shaping service improvements.
The successful candidate will have substantial experience of delivering services for children and young people and the passion, imagination and persistence to create innovative services that deliver excellent outcomes.
The postholder will deliver the objectives of the role within these specialist areas:
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
A recognised social work qualification (i.e. Diploma, degree or Masters in social work, CQSW, CSS or equivalent) with current registration with Social Work England.
Evidence of continuing professional development, aligned to any relevant Professional Competency/Capability frameworks or Knowledge & Skills Statements.
Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external partners and stakeholders, demonstrating breadth of thinking across social care, partners, the wider council and the system as a whole.
Significant experience within a social care setting, with a deep understanding of current social care issues and implications for delivery at local level.
Strong leadership and behavioural skills with the ability to focus on results forging a highly performing and motivated team from diverse backgrounds to achieve objectives.
Experience of successful delivery within a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment while managing conflicting priorities.
Proven influencing skills with an ability to pro-actively lead and deliver cultural change to improve quality of service.
As part of employment with Essex County Council should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained. For further information on the DBS update service please visit: https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service
Essex County Council is proud to offer an excellent benefits package to all its employees. For more information please use the following link: https://www.workingforessex.com/benefits/
Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.
We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity is key to our success.
If you have any queries regarding this role, or require anything further, please contact the in house Recruitment Team on 03330135888
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