Placements Manager - Childrens Services
Location
Bournemouth, Dorset | United Kingdom
Job description
Interim Placements Manager - Childrens Services
Reference no: Bournemouth 5245144
Pay Rate: up to £333 per day PAYE depending on experience (tbc)
Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2 months
City: BOURNEMOUTH
Please not the rate given is provisional
An experienced Placements Manager or Placements Officer who’s ready for a management opportunity. Manage the service delivery of the placements team through placement sourcing and management for Children in Care.
Manage the service delivery of contact packages for Children in Care. Contribute to the commissioning of services for children’s social care ensuring sufficient services are available throughout the child’s journey.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and challenge Social Work practice by diverting children from care, identifying placement drift and ensuring outcomes are achievable and subsequently met for all services purchased.
- Lead and manage on multi-agency placement planning for Children in Care.
- Be innovative and creative in ensuring all arrangements managed identify efficiencies and savings and are commissioned in line with best value practice.
- Ensure all practices within the scope of placements comply with government and legislative requirements with regards to Children Social Care.
- Be the source of expertise; to keep up to date with legislation, guidance and social care developments to train and advise team members, referrers and managers to make informed decisions and to identify and raise awareness in regard to implications to service delivery and to ensure that service delivery complies with statutory requirements.
- Manage the collation and presentation of robust information for Senior Management reports by examination and identification of trends and to support and evidence management commissioning decisions.
- Lead on projects and their progress, ensuring implementation and reporting of outcomes on a range of specialist services.
- Undertake other comparable or lesser duties as required by the Team Manager or Service Manager, on behalf of Children's Services.
- Manage Providers offering services to Children in Care.
- Develop, implement, produce and update policies, procedures and guidelines in relation to placement sourcing, commissioning and the multi-agency service delivery and project related work for Children’s Social Care, Quality and Commissioning and Inclusion and Family Services.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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