Designated Social Care Officer

1 week ago

Beverley, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom East Riding of Yorkshire Council Full time

The job itself:

The job itself
The East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Children's Services have been rated GOOD by Ofsted following our recent ILACS inspection.

Since the last inspection in 2019, the leadership team has made significant and sustained changes in all of the practice and leadership areas identified for improvement.

Through extensive engagement with external partners and scrutineers, the improvements in the service mean that children and young people in East Riding receive a timely and effective response and intervention when they need it.

Senior leaders and councillors are clear about what their strengths are and what still needs to be improved in service delivery, and their self-evaluation is accurate.

They have ambitious plans and have secured significant investment to develop their services further as part of their continuous improvement journey.

Senior leaders lead by example, and this has supported practitioners to embed the relational model of practice with the families they work with.


A great and exciting opportunity has arisen within the Participation, Innovation, and Improvement portfolio for an experienced social worker/manager to join the service in the role of Designated Social Care Lead for SEND.

This role forms part of our continued improvement activity in driving strength based, relational and collaborative practice in our work with children, young people and their networks.


This role will strategically lead in framing and developing social care elements of the SEND strategy across the local authority, in compliance with legislative requirements of the SEND Code of Practice The role will directly inform and influence the direction of wider SEND services through intelligence and insight.

The leader will have in-depth knowledge and understanding of both social care operations and the SEND reforms agenda and will identify areas where social care is weak or noncompliant with the SEND Code of Practice - generating solutions and implementing strategies and plans to address this - aligning these to social care's operational and business plans and statutory obligations.


Key to success will be the ability of this leader to negotiate with and influence others, build and nurture effective partnerships, working collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders across the local authority and exploiting opportunities for co-production.

The role will act as the regional and national interface, representing the local authority social care at key regional and national events, and will be a source of expert professional advice on SEND reforms relating to social care within the county.


Key responsibilities include:

  • A strategic role accountable for developing strategies, action plans and processes which support and enable the SEND reforms agenda to become embedded within social care operations and practice.
  • Contributing to and influencing SEND organisational design and assisting in the development of 025 Children & Young People with Disabilities Service and its policies.
  • Establishing and leading a network of social care SEND 'champions' and link workers.
  • Facilitating and overseeing the implementation of the SEND agenda within social care through this network and gathering insight and intelligence from them and other groups such as the parent carer forum to inform future planning.
  • Responsibility for developing social care aspects of the Local Offer that provide relevant advice and information and meet all legislative requirements.
  • Analysing complex and varied work strands across functions, services and agencies in order to identify and exploit opportunities for coproduction and integrated working between social care, health and education to progress SEND reforms agenda.
  • Working collaboratively with social care directors and managers to ensure social care meet statutory responsibilities under the Children & Families Act and Care Act (2014), and to drive forward organisational culture change aligned to the SEND reforms.
  • Constructively challenging practice, systems, processes and protocols to enhance SEND reform compliance as part of this collaboration.
  • Responsibility for framing social care elements of the local authority's selfevaluation process to ensure readiness for SEND Ofsted & CQC Inspections.
  • Involvement in and initiation of varied multistakeholder projects and work streams

Themes include:
participation and engagement, person-centred approaches, joint working initiatives, outcomes frameworks, operational function design, IT systems connectivity, EHC processes, quality assurance, joint commissioning, Early Years,

  • Preparing for Adulthood, the Local Offer. Contributing to social care workforce development by formulating programme of blended learning/training relating to the SEND reforms across varied audience profile and functions.
This post is part of a wider commitment by the Children, Families and Schools Directorate to support t

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