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    Children's Services Manager - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Highland Council

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    Job Description

    Post Title: Children's Services Manager - Family Based Care
    Location
    : Inverness
    Hours : 35 hours per week
    Duration : Permanent
    Salary :£58, - £63, p.a.

    Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

    Contact Person : Jacquie Hutchison

    Job Purpose : The CSM, Family Based Care, has leadership responsibilities and accountabilities for providing excellence in Fostering, Adoption and Adult (Continuing Care) Placement Services, in keeping with the national Health & Social Care Standards. The CSM FBC will also have a joint responsibility for the development of Kinship Care and Permanence Planning (working closely with the Strategic Lead for the Family Teams).

    This leadership role requires experience and specialist knowledge in delivering Fostering, Adoption & Adult Placement Services, which are provided within a complex legislative, procedural and regulatory framework. The CSM FBC is the Registered Manager and is directly responsible for ensuring strong links with the Care Inspectorate. This leadership role has a strong accountability for self-evaluation and continuous improvement to ensure services are of the highest quality and standards, where children are safe and protected in every household, where practice is focused on the wellbeing of children and young people, who require compassionate, skilled and nurturing family-based care across the Highlands.

    The CSM FBC has leadership responsibility for the growth of Family Based Care to ensure sufficiency of services, as fundamental to the vision of Children's Services, Family 1st Strategy – to safely maintain children within families, within the Highlands. The focused management of the team, ensuring continuous recruitment, support, supervision and retention of family-based carers, with the passion and values to provide safe, stable and loving family care, is the key focus of the FBC service. The CSM FBC will ensure that the entire team embrace and embody the transformational change of the Promise, which aspires to ensure 1. love is at the heart of all care, 2. families are supported in their local communities, and 3. that FBC must relentlessly focus on safely keeping brothers and sisters together and connected. FBC Services are built on compassionate relational practice that is trauma informed with rights and relationships protected and respected. This leadership role will ensure voice, participation and lived experience is rooted in every aspect of the service.

    Please APPLY ONLINE . If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact Business Support, T: (24 hour voicemail) quoting post the reference number above.

    Please find the Job Description below.

    The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

    Shortlisted applicants will normally be contacted by e-mail, unless otherwise stated. Please check your e-mails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

    Requirements

  • Degree/Diploma in Social Work.
  • SSSC Registered
  • Knowledge of current legislation, policy and practice

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