Social Worker- Deputy Team Manager Childrens (MM1)

Job Description

Job Category : Social Care – Qualified
Location : Enfield Council
Hours Per Week :35.00
Start Date : Immediate Start
Start Time :09:00
End Time :17:00
Salary: £30.91

DSE Updated Mapping Description
• Advanced Practitioner: This role is that of technical authority with acknowledged depth of expertise, including the assessment and appropriate management of risk. The role focuses on driving practice improvement across the service through direct development of others and by actively participating in process mapping, procedure specification, and strategy development. The role may involve dealing with the most complex cases, partly to maintain credibility and experience in the field. Assistant Team Manager and Principal Social Worker roles should be aligned to the Advanced Practitioner core job type.

Purpose of the Role:

To assist the team manager in the management of the statutory specialist social work service for disabled children and their families.

To be responsible for the management of the specialist social work duty service, determining whether referrals to the service meet the eligibility criteria for The Joint Service and if not assuring families are signposted to appropriate services/support. To allocate casework and statutory assessments ensuring nationally agreed timescales are met

To maintain the effective delivery of the specialist disabled children’s’ service and to promote an ethos which enables disabled children and their families to gain equal access to community life and ensures that they are safeguarded.

To work closely with Managers within the Joint Service, children’s and adults services to ensure an integrated strategic approach to the development and delivery of disabled children’s services.

To ensure assessments and services are delivered in a manner which reflects the diversity of families and is in line with the Councils policies, performance targets and professional standards of good practise.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES (You are not restricted to 2 criteria for each category)
Job Specifics – Skills, Experience and Competencies
(In this section you should list between 4 and a maximum of 8 essential recruitment and selection criteria and 2 desirable criteria). The information you provide in this section will be used in the recruitment application process to assess the suitability of job applicants.

Essential:
1. Experience of management within a statutory social work team with responsibilities for complex cases including court work and a proven ability to support and supervise social work staff
2. Proven ability to develop and sustain effective working relationships and partnerships within the Joint Service for Disabled Children, other Local Authority groups, partner and external agencies.
3. Proven experience in chairing meetings including multi disciplinary groups.
4. Proven management experience within a diverse service and ability to make decisions relating to the management of casework, staff, finances, the Centre, and deployment of resources within a seven day a week service and outside of normal working hours
5. Experience of supervising and managing social work staff including performance appraisal and review, which ensure that performance meets specified deadlines and targets in terms of both practise and performance management requirements
6. Excellent communication and organisational skills and a proven ability to develop and sustain effective working relationships and partnerships within the Joint Service for disabled children, other Local Authority groups, partner and external agencies which contribute to the development and delivery of an innovative service for disabled children and their families.

Desirable:
1. Competent user of Information Technology including integrated children’s systems.

Knowledge*

1. . Knowledge and understanding of the Children Act 1989 and 2004, Aiming High For Disabled Children Agenda and Every Disabled Child Matters, including an understanding of the issues relating to the delivery of innovative short breaks for disabled children and young people
2. Knowledge of legislation relating to short breaks for disabled children, Short Breaks regulations 2010.

Qualification(s)*

1. DIPSW or equivalent social work qualification with HCPC registration.