Vacancy Details

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CHILDREN AND JOINT COMMISSIONING SERVICES

 

HEAD OF QUALITY AND REVIEW                                                REF: 101924

Band 15 £53,972- £58,803 pa

Permanent

37hpw

 

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In addition to the above salary, we are also offering a 10% market forces supplement for a full year (pro rata) paid quarterly backdated and reviewed annuallyIn addition to the above salary, we are also offering a 10% market forces supplement for a full year (pro rata) paid quarterly backdated and reviewed annually

Are you passionate about making a difference for children, young people and families?

This post is to lead the Quality and Review Service, including holding the role of Principal Social Worker for Children. You will be responsible for the Independent Reviewing Service, Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information, Advice and Support Service (SENDIASS), Safeguarding supervision and support for our 0-19 children's health service, Complaints and Quality Assurance as well as Workforce Development across Children and Joint Commissioning and Adults and Community Based Services.

You will have outcomes for children at the heart of everything you do and be committed to partnership working with families and other agencies. You will be a dedicated and driven leader with significant post-qualifying and management experience in children’s social care including supervision of social workers working with children in need of protection and children in care. You will be organised and be a good communicator with the skills to lead high quality services for children and young people.

 

You will provide oversight, leadership and assurance, driving aspirational practice and continuous improvement across the system. You will have the ability and confidence to influence practice and to effectively scrutinise and challenge practice where needed.

 

Hartlepool is a vibrant and energetic town with growing prospects, as an authority we want to make Hartlepool the best it can be. We have a flexible working model through the Council’s hybrid working policy, we have a strong and effective culture and pride ourselves on the highly supportive and relational way of working both within the organisation and with our children and families. This culture has ensured that we have oneof the highest rates of staff retention in the region and feedback from the recent national social work survey where Hartlepool Council came out top nationally, confirmed that staff are happy working in Hartlepool and the support they are offered by all levels of management is excellent.

 

The recent Ofsted inspection of Local Authority Children’s Services (ILACS) judged children’s services to be outstanding and reported… ‘like the children in Hartlepool, the workforce is listened to, cared for and cared about by senior leaders.’

 

Hartlepool Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. This post is subject to safer recruitment measures, including an enhanced DBS barring list check and you also need to be registered with Social Work England.

 

 

For further information or a confidential informal discussion, please contact Rebecca Stephenson on 01429 284134 or Sally Robinson on 01429 523910.

 

Closing date: Sunday 8^th September, midnight

 

Interviews: Wednesday 25^th September

 

In order to apply for this vacancy, you must be able to supply the required answers to the following questions: