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Your new role

• Provide operational management and leadership support across service areas.
• Support the Head of Family and Youth Resilience and other Heads of Service.
• Manage up to 5 Senior Practitioners/Social Workers/Social Work Assistants, Youth Worker, Counselling Psychologist, or Family Therapist.
• Ensure high-quality interventions, effective case management, decision-making, and overall performance.
• Oversee adolescents across the social care spectrum from referral to care proceedings.
• Work with adolescents who are hardest to reach and carry the most risk.
• Quality assure work undertaken with adolescents.
• Focus on singular children, not sibling groups.
• Keep children at home where safe and in their best interests.
• Use the client's social work practice model, Signs of Safety, and adhere to quality standards and procedures.
• Attend operational management meetings.
• Represent the client at operational and strategic multi-agency meetings.
• Lead on building relationships with schools.

What you'll need to succeed

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level with a social work qualification and HCPC registration

• Evidence of continuing professional development

Skills and Experience

• Extensive social work practice with vulnerable children and adolescents, especially within statutory frameworks like youth justice and social care.
• Ability to manage high-risk situations, including safeguarding and public protection.
• Experience managing caseworkers dealing with adolescents and families facing contextual safeguarding issues.
• Proven track record in managing teams, performance, and professional development.
• Effective risk management in services for vulnerable children, young people, and the public.
• Strong background in integrated, multi-agency working.
• Proficient in recording, monitoring, evaluating, and quality assurance of case work using various tools and systems.
• Deep understanding of risk management and safeguarding in social care, including relevant legislation and policies.
• Skilled in using data and evidence to inform decision-making.
• Experience addressing equality and diversity issues in practice and taking action to resolve them.

• Passionate about the client's vision, mission, and values (trust, value, respect).
• Proficient with digital tools like Microsoft or Google software.
• Strong organisational skills: time management, creative thinking, problem-solving, and multitasking.
• Able to work flexibly and independently with minimal supervision.
• Driven, energetic, and ambitious to achieve goals and deliver excellent outcomes for children.
• Committed to collaborative work and resource-sharing.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including negotiation and influencing.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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