Children's Improvement Partner

•  It will be your responsibility to support, champion and challenge professional practice and judgement in casework, ensuring a systemic approach is deployed.
•  You will provide individual guidance and evaluate cases and individual pieces of work to ensure desired outcomes for children, young people and families. This requires significant degree of forward planning, as well as managing immediate day to day issues and prioritisation of those issues that require an immediate response
• You will role model best practice and maintain knowledge of leading-edge best practice through research, review and personal development.
• You will support the continuous development of service staff within the professional development framework of South Gloucestershire’s Children’s Social Care and national social care professional development frameworks.
•  You will also provide a range of development strategies including mentoring, coaching and group training.
• Your contribution will be key to the delivery and implementation of the overarching strategy, social work core standards, thresholds and practice and quality assurance framework of South Gloucestershire’s Children's Social Care Services.  This will ensure that the Service actively plans for safety, permanency and stability for children and young people regardless of the setting in which they live, while actively supports more children to live at home safely.
• When required you will lead, manage and oversee the work of a specific team or service, to ensure that vulnerable children are protected from significant harm, to work with children where there is risk of family breakdown, as well as working with children in care.
• You will be required to ensure consistency of cover for Team Managers in specific statutory service areas where there is improvement focus or indeed long-term sickness and/or continued vacancies.

• You will be a qualified social worker with relevant registration to practice and a strong understanding of relevant national and regional policy, and legislation.
• You will be able to demonstrate extensive experience working in, and leading, across various teams and services within children’s services.
  
• You will have a proven knowledge of the Ofsted inspection framework, Signs of Safety and system social work practice. 
  
• Know what good practice looks like and understand the impact of practice on those children and young people we support, protect and care for.
  
• You will be able to develop and maintain complex partnerships. 
  
• You will demonstrate financial and commercial acumen, with experience of managing budgets.
  
• You will be experienced in influencing, stakeholder management skills and the ability to build relationships.

We invest in the careers of our people and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps our people make the greatest long-term difference in their work.

We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance.

We also provide up to £8,000 relocation package, flexible working and a suite of employee benefits 

We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities.