Innovation Lead NG *MR

Job Description

Job Category: Social & Healthcare Qualified
Location: Midland House, Plymouth City Council
Hours Per Week: 37.00
Start Date: Immediate Start
Start Time: 09:00
End Time: 17:00
Salary: £435.68

Role outline: Innovation Lead
Reports to: Practice and Improvement Lead
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Rate: £450 – £550 per day
Contract: – 6-9 months
Location: – Office based in Plymouth two days per week with home working option remaining days

Person specification:
• An experienced and qualified social worker, you will be a motivational communicator with strong interpersonal skills.
• You will model and lead a restorative and strengths based approach to professional relationships and practice, building confidence in staff to work and think creatively and support practical and effective work to identify and achieve the best outcomes for children and young people at pace. Creative and innovative approach to your work and interaction with individuals and teams.
• You will lead a small project team and react confidently and pro-actively in a rapidly changing environment bringing expertise and leadership to support the work streams above and other priorities that may develop.
• You will combine all our values with your comprehensive and innovative practice experience and creative mind-set, focussing on working alongside staff to coordinate and facilitate innovative, dynamic and pragmatic solutions, broadening the variety of ways that help and support is offered and what it looks like.
• You will use a big picture thinking approach to work collaboratively to understand complex issues, develop ideas and build creative responses, delivering new ways of working.

Skills and capabilities:
• Lead and motivate colleagues and external partners – demonstrating an optimistic, flexible approach to explore gaps and emerging ideas, and coordinate the development of new interventions.
• Develop strong relationships and build trusting partnerships across the multi-agency spectrum, building a collaborative approach and supporting everyone to work at their best.
• Create and maintain accurate monitoring and reporting systems for work undertaken within the team with planned and achieved outcomes.
• Self-starter with the ability to use initiative and judgement to identify problems and propose
• Management experience.
• Leading and developing a project from an early stage.