Practise Manager – Corporate Parenting

Seven Resourcing are looking for Practise Manager to work in the corporate parenting team based in Southampton for Southampton Council. This is a full time position and we are paying £42 per hour for this role.

The role:

The Corporate Parenting (CP) Practice Managers under the direction of the Corporate Parenting Leads, and the Head of Service for Children Looked After and Permanency, will lead the operational function of social care delivery to ensure a timely, effective and high-quality response to children who are looked after, or those young adults who are leaving our care. The CP Practice Managers will work closely with colleagues and partner agencies to ensure a high quality service is provided to all our children and young people, which is professional yet caring and nurturing leading to positive outcomes for children and those leaving care. The Practice Manager will be responsible for ensuring that day to day practise is managed in such a way that key performance indicators are met for the service. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage Social Workers within a systemic and restorative practice group model undertaking a range of statutory interventions for children who are looked after by the local authority and those young adults who are leaving our care.
• Support practitioners by providing regular reflective supervision and appraisal that attends to learning and development needs.
• Ensure consistently high standards of performance, productivity and compliance within the team informed by good quality management information and audit findings and hold social workers to account. 
• Model strong positive and solution focused leadership that balances empowering staff with constructive challenge.  
• Engage you and your team fully in quality assurance audit activities, developing robust actions plans in response to feedback and learning process. 
• Operate proactively, effectively and credibly across professional boundaries to support multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working, ensuring intervention and support for children is coordinated in meeting needs and optimising outcomes.  
• Work with your teams to understand the wider financial context and challenges and comply with budgetary requirements and operate within limits or targets set. 
• Evidence a ‘one Council’/’one system’ approach that creates a culture of collaboration and mutual support between managers, and of a professional and shared responsibility for children in our care and those young adults who are leaving our care.
• To engage in the recruitment, development and retention of staff, influencing the decisions and selections made of high-quality candidates.  
• To contribute on the development of practice standards and operational processes that lead to service improvements that align with key performance indicators.
• Where needed to lead teams through transformational change supporting service continuity for children and young people, staff morale and competing priorities. 
• To promote and model the importance of participation of children in care and those young people who are leaving our care to engage in the development of their own plans, but also service design and strategy where possible. To demonstrate that children and young people are listened to and have a clear voice.
• To manage the uncertainty, complexity and challenge linked to the diverse needs and experiences of children and young people. 
• To manage information feedback through customer complaints and access to records requests, disclosing information to statutory agencies where appropriate.  

Applicant Requirements:

• Qualifications: Social Work Degree
• Experience: 2+ years working within a similar role. 
• Compliance: Current clear DBS
• Travel: Clean UK driving license with the ability to commute to and from work independently.
• Hours: 37 hours p/w.

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