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Job Category : Housing

Location : 25-27 Bournemouth Road, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £26.04

1.         Contribute to the projects relating to the development and implementation of housing solutions, homelessness prevention, trailblazer initiatives, welfare reform, and temporary accommodation strategies.  

2.         Prepare complex reports and carry out creative and complex work on a number of diverse subjects, involving research and statistical analysis, often where recognised general principles are not completely adequate to determine procedure or decision of cases.  

3.         Analyse the cost of nightly accommodation rates for households in different forms of temporary accommodation and suggest move on arrangements for the most expensive cases.  

4.         Evaluate the most effective package of incentives and accommodation charges to help the Housing Solutions services stay within budget. 

5.         Line management responsibility for four Casework Support Officers, ensuring they meet their targets.  

6.         Operate new technology, including any packages, programmes or systems on the Unit’s personal computers and the Department’s network, whilst, where appropriate, carrying out any of the above duties.  

7.         To lead on the provision of a robust and effective performance management system that ensures data quality is auditable and verifiable. As well as to develop a performance dashboard for the service and disseminate. 

8.         Ensure all literature created and used by the service is non discriminatory and meets equality standards.

This role has management responsibility for officers that utilise Northgate (NEC. 

This role has management responsibility for a data analyst who utilises excel and online reports populated by Northgate.

The role requires a working knowledge of these systems.

The role also involves the uploading of Homeless Case Level Information Collection (HCLIC) by Central Government and so an understanding of the HCLIC specification, along with Northgate as the system where our HCLIC data is held, is vital in the performance of this role.

Knowledge, including educational qualifications:

Housing and homelessness and the problems facing local government  

Awareness of the role of service development, data quality and performance management  

Understanding and application of Southwark’s Equalities and Diversity Policy  

Experience:

Experience of disseminating information and giving advice  

Producing high quality work despite pressurised deadlines  

Experience of working on the Northgate Housing System or similar housing database. 

Meeting demanding performance targets  

Developing and managing quality assurance and audit processes  

Using negotiation skills in resolving problems  

Experience of corporate working, team working and joint working with internal and external stakeholders 

Producing high quality work for recurring tasks  

Analysing or reporting on data, such as performance or the outcomes of a project  

Aptitudes, Skills & Competencies:

Excellent IT skills to produce, collate and disseminate detailed technical information in a format easily understood by service users and staff  

Ability to use computer systems including word processing, spreadsheets and databases for correspondence and reports  

Ability to gather, analyse and interpret complex information and exercise judgement to make recommendations for improvement  

Able to work on own initiative and be self-motivated and organised, demonstrating passion, drive, flexibility and commitment  

Ability to challenge performance in a positive way retaining the confidence and respect of a variety of stakeholders  

Can do attitude and demonstrable ownership and responsibility  

Ability to gain, and retain, the confidence and respect of staff, service users and other contacts  

Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills  

Job Category : Social Care - Qualified

Location : Powys County Council

Hours Per Week :37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:30

Salary: £28.10

About the role:?

We are looking for a qualified social worker to join the Children’s Integrated Disability Service, in north Powys. We are a team of social workers and Wellbeing workers that closely link in with health, education, and other organisations to assess and support children with signifcant disabilities or health diagnosis. You will be based in the north of Powys and this role encompasses part office based, part working from home.?

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About you:?

-Highly desirable: experience of working with carers, and children who have a disability or health diagnosis.?

-We are looking for a team player, who is able to think on their feet, think outside of the box, and be willing to support their team where needed.?

-You will need to have person centred skills: our work often requires compassion, good listening skills and empathic approaches to working.?

-You will need to be registered with Social Care Wales.?

-Highly desirable: experience of direct payments and developing care packages for children.?

- Highly desirable: experience of the Signs of Safety approach.?

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What you will do:?

-This social work role encompasses elements from across the field of childrens social work, as the IDS team are a through care team and you could be undertaking a mixture of social work practices; new cases for assessment, Care & support, Child protection, children that are looked after and some court work/ adoption work. ?

-As a qualified social worker, this role will be to hold Care and Support cases, and possibly some initial assessments.

-We are offering a manageable case load, in an experienced, friendly, and supportive team.?

-We support children who have a disability or health diagnosis to lead a happy, stable, and fulfilling life. This could mean supporting children who experience neurological impairment, learning disabilities, and/ or various health diagnosis, such as Cerebral Palsy, Down’s syndrome, genetic conditions, Epilepsy, sensory impairment, and mobility impairment. Some children we support have health input, or a comorbidity diagnosis and could also experience mental illness, trauma, Autism, or ADHD. ?

• DBS: 

Because of the nature of the work involved, the post you are applying for is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013). This position has a requirement for an Enhanced DBS Check, this position is classed as regulated activity under the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 as amended by the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and will be subject to a check to the list of those people barred from working with children. 

Health and Safety Statement: 

To co-operate with their employer and follow health and safety advice and instructions 

Equalities Statement: 

To abide by the principles and practice of equality of opportunity as laid down in the Council’s Equalities Policy 

Welsh Language Requirement 

To have the ability or be prepared to learn within a reasonable time period, how to pronounce Welsh personal and place-names correctly, and give and respond to basic greetings on the telephone or in person. 

Job Category : Revenue & Benefits

Client Location : London Borough of Hillingdon

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £28.72

Undertake work on the Housing Benefit Subsidy by completion of subsidy workbooks including detailed manual calculations. Carry out quality assurance checks on the Housing Benefits, Council Tax. Assist accountants, internal auditors and District Auditors during the annual subsidy audit with particular emphasis on explaining benefit calculations/payments in order to justify that payments have been made in line with Benefit legislation reduction .

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified

Client Location : Queens Road 1, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £23.87

Experience

8. Significant experience of complex whole family direct work with children and their families within an early help context, in addition to formulating and implementing effective intervention plans with families

9. Experience of using persistence, tenacity and flexibility to engage families who may be reluctant to accept the need for help

10.Experience of leading practice developments in work with families and driving evidence based practice within a team and with stakeholders

11. Experience of supervising, training and managing staff undertaking whole family work

12. Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency context to support vulnerable families.

Experienced Early Help Practitioners are required to join the Family Help and Support Team tenable as soon as possible. Candidates must be able to work five days per week, Monday to Friday in person. The Family Help and Support team works in partnership and collaboration as part of the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub to  ensure that children, young people, families receive an effective service response at the first point of contact with early help. 

The work is varied and challenging requiring the ability to work within tight deadlines and multi task to respond to the needs of families. The role will involve carrying out early help enquiries from MASH, progressing help and support requests to secure access to services and undertaking immediate help visits to support families where appropriate.  This will involve substantial contact with social care, early help teams, universal and community resources

As an experienced practitioner you will deliver an ‘outstanding’ Family Early Help Service as part of Southwark’s Children & Families Directorate, driving best practice in whole family work in a systemically informed way.

Provide specialist knowledge on early intervention best practice, leading on key areas for outcome based interventions (such as Troubled Families risk factors) and drive practice within and across the early help system

Lead on work with families where children have been identified as at risk of poor outcomes

and provide early help for emerging problems in order to improve impact, engage families

better and avoid escalation to higher levels of statutory intervention

Support continued progress of families who have ‘stepped down’ from statutory work and

work with a high level of complexity

Act as a lead professional and work with all family members to assess their needs and

develop a whole family plan to achieve agreed outcomes that promote the safeguarding

of children, attendance at school and positive citizenship

Work directly with children and families and actively engage them in sustainable change

within the resources available, enforcing positive parenting responsibility through a twin

track approach of high challenge and high support.

Job Category : Commercial

Location :London Borough of Newham

Hours Per Week : 36.00

Start Date: Immediate Start   

Start Time : 08:00

End Time : 16:00

Salary: £170.00 per day

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified           

Client Location : County Hall, Somerset Council

Hours Per Week :30.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:30

End Time :17:30

Salary: £30.44

Social worker for the Kinship support pod

Completing Assessment of support needs for special guardianship families, completing support plans and delivering support or identifying appropriate therapist to complete work.

Job Category : Social Care & Health Qualified

Location : County Hall, Somerset Council

Hours Per Week :37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:30

End Time :17:00

Salary: £30.44

Somerset Council have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Social Worker to join our Taunton Assessment team within Children’s Social Care. The key purpose of the role is to improve the outcomes for our most vulnerable young people and families in Somerset to encourage positive change. 

We’re working to improve the lives of people in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. Your day-to-day work will involve:

- Work with children and families to complete assessments to reflect individual circumstances including assessment of needs and risk, alongside strengths and protective factors, to develop meaningful plans to ensure that children are protected from significant harm and receive the appropriate multi-agency support.

- Responsible for a caseload of varying complexity, commensurate with experience, ability and qualification; receive and respond to referrals from various sources.

- Assess the needs of children and families under the appropriate statutory frameworks, liaising and working with partner agencies, and other Children’s Services teams, as required

- Participate in a duty rota responding to crisis situations and supporting children to remain safely within their families

- Enable and empower individuals’ families and carers to address issues which affect their health, financial, emotional and social wellbeing and to achieve and sustain positive change.

You will be passionate about relationship-based social work, proud of your profession, and able to reflect and think creatively about how you can build relationships to make a difference to children and families.

You will need to be a qualified social worker registered with Social Work England and have substantial experience working with children and families in social work.

Job Category : Social & Health Care Qualified

Client Location : Sumner House, Southwark Council

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £23.87

Job Category : Administration
Location : County Hall North, West Sussex County Council
Hours Per Week : 37.00
Start Date : Immediate start
Start Time : 09:00
End Time : 17:30
Pay - Grade 6 - £12.02 Per Hour

Location - Chichester
Working arrangements - Mix of home and office - 1 day in the office and 4 days from home ( candidates can choose to spend more time in office if wish ) There may occasionally be ad hoc additional meetings requiring colleagues to come into the office.

Job description :
We are committed to ensuring continuous improvement in the quality of care for our customers and our expectations of the health and social care market which deliver those services are high. Working as part of a team this role will play a key part in delivering that commitment, working in partnership with customers, Providers, other departments in WSCC and external organisations.
The key purpose of this team will be:

1. To be responsible for the provider monitoring cycle with initially a primary focus on domiciliary care providers
2. Support and assist with responses to provider concerns/failure with a focus on improvement and development in quality. This may include other types of contracted providers (e.g. residential care providers).
3. Support development of clear processes and responsibilities enabling effective coordination and response to performance related information within AS Operations, Safeguarding and Contract colleagues in the H&SC Commissioning teams. Supported by Team Manager and the broader team, you will identify performance issues, agree performance improvement plans and use your knowledge of the contracts performance framework to improve the quality of delivery for customers.
   This will include both onsite and desktop performance checks as part of the monitoring cycle. In addition this will require close working relationships with your colleagues in Adult Services Operations, Health and Social Care Commissioning and Contracts teams and Adults Safeguarding. The Provider Monitoring & Support team will have a countywide remit and some travelling will be required. This team will form part of the Adults Social Care Quality and Improvement team.

Job Category : Social Care - Unqualified
Location : Orchard House, West Sussex County Council
Start Date : Immediate start
Salary: £16.18

This is a bulk order for cook shifts at Children's care homes, requiring a DBS.

Job Category : Environmental

Location :Claro Road Depo, North Yorkshire Council

Hours Per Week :42.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time : 17:30

Salary: £12.00

The worker is required to work outside for 42 hours per week undertaking grounds maintenance works. They will be trained to use grass machinery, mowers, strimmers, blowers etc and would be preferable if they can drive.

Job Category : Social Care & Health Non-Qualified

Location : Civic Centre, Bromley Council

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £20.14

1.         With Heads of Service develop and implement the Trusted Assessor Provider Support Planning programme as set out in the Trusted Assessor Manual.

2.         Work with staff and providers to further develop the Trusted Assessor Provider Support Planning model ensuring that all relevant staff are trained and that processes are in place to enable ongoing monitoring and to maximise independence for vulnerable adults and efficiencies for the council.

3.         Build on Bromley Council’s strengths and outcome-based approaches, to ensure that adults maximise their opportunities and the Council maximises its efficiencies

4.         Work with the System Development Lead to aligning the new system of structure changes with new arrangements in assessment and care management and across Adult Social Care 

5.         Deliver the allocated change projects and strive to achieve all perceived benefits

6.         Responsible for ensuring that all project documentation which is to be supplied to the business, is completed to a high standard

7.         Provide as necessary support and guidance to temporary staff working on specific time-limited projects

8.         Working with Learning and Development and relevant trainers to ensure all Trusted Assessors are engaged and successfully complete a suitable training plan, to ensure successful use of the new system 

SKILLS & ABILITIES

1.         Proven ability to work on own initiative, manage and prioritise workload to meet deadlines, as well as accommodating unplanned changes to circumstances and priorities 

2.         Attention to detail and an ability to present documents to a varied audience

3.         Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present information in an influencing way 

4.         Ability to plan, organise project work and prioritise tasks in accordance with service requirements

5.         Proficient skills in Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint etc

            KNOWLEDGE

1.         An awareness of relevant legislation including the 2014 Care Act, financial and procurement regulations and GDPR

2.         An understanding of how research, performance assessment frameworks, development and review methods could be applied in an adult social care setting.

            EXPERIENCE 

1. Practical experience of monitoring, planning, evaluation or performance improvement projects

2. Practical experience of information collection and presentation both electronic and hard copy.

3. Experience of contributing to a change management agenda - particularly in the areas of systems and processes.

4. Experience in conducting/ co-ordinating all aspects of user satisfaction surveys

5. Experience of being part of project groups to undertake time limited work

            QUALIFICATIONS

•          Educated to a minimum of GCSE or similar in Maths and English

Job Category : Education Unqualified

Location :Ballard House, West Hoe Road, Plymouth City Council

Hours Per Week :14.80

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £13.41

Role outcomes

 Ensure high quality annual reviews of EHCPs are completed in accordance with the 0-25 SEND code of practice. (30%)

 Ensure that all settings work in accordance with the code of practice relating to annual reviews. (20%)

 Ensure annual reviews of educational provision for children and young people with SEND are needs and outcome specific. (20%)

 Ensure that EHC plans are reviewed and placements monitored to meet the needs of individual children and young people. (30%)

Key activities

 Working directly with children, young people and families, multi-agency professionals and educational settings to monitor quality outcomes for children and young people, providing training where appropriate. (20%)

 Amending Education, Health and Care Plans in line with the code of practice timeframes. (20%)

 Prioritising attendance at key annual reviews of children and young people with an EHCP. Attending in person, or ensuring LA representative is at meeting to consider whether outcomes and supporting targets remain appropriate and to challenge outcomes and provision wherever necessary. (15%)

 Work closely with schools and independent providers regarding annual reviews of students, actively monitoring children and young people’s progress towards their outcomes and longer term aspirations. Focusing on the child or young person’s progress towards achieving the outcomes specified in the EHC plan. (15%)

 Carry out actions as a result of the annual reviews of children and young people 0-25, who have an EHCP, for example requests to panel, referrals/signposting to colleagues within the code of practice guidelines. (15%)

 Monitoring annual review systems and processes for children and young people 0-25, who have an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP). Reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) relevant to annual reviews. (15%)

 Carry out other duties appropriate to the grade of the post.

Essential qualifications/ knowledge

 5 GCSEs (Grade 9-4), including Maths and English.

 Knowledge of the 0-25 SEND Code of Practice and Children and Families Act 2014.

Desirable qualifications/ knowledge

 Experience of providing advice, guidance and training to a range of stakeholders and professionals.

Essential experience

 Experience of working as part of a team.

 Experience of multi-agency working alongside children and families.

 Experience of using IT systems and Microsoft office – eg. collating and presenting statistical information.

Desirable experience

 Experience of working with children and young people with special educational needs.

 Experience of working within an educational setting.

Job Category : Procurement - Senior

Location : Windsor House & Car Parks, Plymouth City Council

Hours Per Week : 37.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :09:00

End Time :17:00

Salary: £24.66

PLEASE NOTE: IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE CANDIDATE IS ABLE TO WORK FROM OUR OFFICES IN PLYMOUTH A MINIUM OF EVERY OTHER WEEK OR 2-3 DAYS A WEEK.

We are looking for an experienced Strategic Commissioning Manager, preferably with a strong understanding of Children's Services including Social Care and SEND to manage a commissioning team for an initial period of 6 months due to the secondment of the substantive post holder. 

The key priorities for the post are:

Support for pending Ofsted inspections - SEND and ILACS and day to day engagement with managers in Children's Services including attendance at DMT's

Line management of a team of experienced Commissioning Officers and Commissioning Assistants

Oversight of external placement brokerage

Engagement with partnership meetings including with the ICB and neighbouring local authority commissioners and local provider partners

Overseeing progress on projects including the procurement of a new Domestic Abuse service, young carers and substance misuse services and refugee support services

Beginning to progress the action plan behind a refreshed placement sufficiency statement

Job Category : Admin / Clerical

Location : Hackney Service Centre, Hackney Council

Hours Per Week :36.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time :08:45

End Time :20:00

Salary: £17.27