- Responsibility for planning and delivering services that improve outcomes for children and young people, as set out in the relevant legislation and associated guidance, ensuring that services are sensitive to the needs of children, young people and families, and of the highest professional standards
- Accountable for effective case allocation, using supervision and analysis of management reports to ensure optimum case management and resolution, to monitor and evaluate outcomes of services against agreed standards, and reporting to Children's Services Management Team as appropriate
- Responsibility for implementation of policy and procedure, and effective decision-making within delegated authority level, ensuring staff adherence to all directorate policy, procedures and standards
- Responsible and accountable for the effective analysis and management of risk for all children held within their team, and ensuring compliance by team members with the requirements of relevant legislation, guidance and procedures
- Responsible and accountable for provision of safe child in need, child protection and LAC care plans for children and young people, assuring timeliness and quality of assessment, planning, implementation and review, and working in partnership with children, young people and families, and partner agencies
- Responsible and accountable for effective team budget management, compliance with financial rules, identifying pressures and savings and bringing in a balanced budget
- Responsibility for professional and managerial staff supervision, in accordance with directorate supervision policy; for staff practice improvement and development, management of staff performance and ensuring under-performance is dealt with robustly
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with and quality of record keeping and report writing in the team, in accordance with requirements of the Integrated Children's System and directorate policy and procedure
- Responsible for effective service delivery through an adequately resourced team, using recruitment, induction, training and workforce planning methods to support the team's development and performance
- To act as the Designated Complaints Officer and deal with stage one complaints in accordance with directorate and Children Act criteria, and to work with staff and partners to resolve service problems and identify ways to improve services
- To provide cover for other Team Managers in their absence, and assisting in resolving issues within and between teams as appropriate
- To ensure children, young people and their families are appropriately consulted about services and that their views inform service delivery and development
- To ensure the team's commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity, inclusive and collaborative working practices
- To contribute to service planning processes, identifying future objectives and service developments, participate in directorate research and developmental activity, undertake project work in a specific area, consistent with the post holder's skills and workload
- Responsibility for planning and delivering services that improve outcomes for children and young people, as set out in the relevant legislation and associated guidance, ensuring that services are sensitive to the needs of children, young people and families, and of the highest professional standards
- Accountable for effective case allocation, using supervision and analysis of management reports to ensure optimum case management and resolution, to monitor and evaluate outcomes of services against agreed standards, and reporting to Children's Services Management Team as appropriate
- Responsibility for implementation of policy and procedure, and effective decision-making within delegated authority level, ensuring staff adherence to all directorate policy, procedures and standards
- Responsible and accountable for the effective analysis and management of risk for all children held within their team, and ensuring compliance by team members with the requirements of relevant legislation, guidance and procedures
- Responsible and accountable for provision of safe child in need, child protection and LAC care plans for children and young people, assuring timeliness and quality of assessment, planning, implementation and review, and working in partnership with children, young people and families, and partner agencies
- Responsible and accountable for effective team budget management, compliance with financial rules, identifying pressures and savings and bringing in a balanced budget
- Responsibility for professional and managerial staff supervision, in accordance with directorate supervision policy; for staff practice improvement and development, management of staff performance and ensuring under-performance is dealt with robustly
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with and quality of record keeping and report writing in the team, in accordance with requirements of the Integrated Children's System and directorate policy and procedure
- Responsible for effective service delivery through an adequately resourced team, using recruitment, induction, training and workforce planning methods to support the team's development and performance
- To act as the Designated Complaints Officer and deal with stage one complaints in accordance with directorate and Children Act criteria, and to work with staff and partners to resolve service problems and identify ways to improve services
- To provide cover for other Team Managers in their absence, and assisting in resolving issues within and between teams as appropriate
- To ensure children, young people and their families are appropriately consulted about services and that their views inform service delivery and development
- To ensure the team's commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity, inclusive and collaborative working practices
- To contribute to service planning processes, identifying future objectives and service developments, participate in directorate research and developmental activity, undertake project work in a specific area, consistent with the post holder's skills and workload
Connect2Staff/Connect2Kent, part of Commercial Services Trading/Kent Ltd, is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business and positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.