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Head of Service – Care Leavers and USAC Team

£500 per day

Birmingham Children’s Trust are looking for a Specialised Head of Service to join their Care Leavers and USAC Team.

General Duties and Responsibilities:

To contribute to the delivery of performance management to ensure timely, effective and good quality outcomes for children and young people

To directly manage a group of Team Managers and, through them, social work services. 

To supervise Team Managers. 

To build capacity and manage risk

To ensure compliance with legal, regulatory and ethical requirements

To promote equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the service area.

To build and support a culture of good practice

To build and manage a culture of effective professional challenge

To develop processes and practice which ensures consultation and engagement with children, young people and their carer's in service planning and delivery

To develop and manage business processes and related relationships such as procurement

To contribute to and manage HR processes and procedures alongside HR colleagues

To effectively manage resources; meeting  demand; developing individuals, monitoring and challenging performance as necessary

To use all recording systems as procedures requires

To be responsible for leading specific service areas that are changeable depending upon business need.

To offer coaching and mentoring across the service as required

Why work with We do Social Work?

New ‘Faster Pay’ service getting you paid more quickly.

Twice weekly payroll

Free DBS and compliance service

Your own dedicated friendly consultant with extensive social work knowledge

Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK

Refer a friend!

“Refer a Friend” bonus – get £250 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*

“Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us*

We Do Social Work is an equal opportunities employer and is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. 

Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes*

Please contact Katie at (url removed) or call (phone number removed) for more information