Social Work Manager

3 weeks ago

Birkenhead, Wirral, United Kingdom NYAS Full time

We are looking to recruit a Social Work Manager to join our Legal team and lead the best practice management of our self-employed independent social workers.

You will best practice manage and quality control work, ensuring all self-employed independent social workers delivery a high-quality service to the Courts and to children and young people. In addition you will also responsible for first stage investigations of complaints against self-employed independent social workers.

With experience as a children's guardian in family court proceedings or working as an independent social worker and of giving oral evidence in family law proceedings, you will lead on service delivery recommendations and improvements from a social work perspective.

In your application, you will need to evidence, using specific examples, how your skills and experience meet the criteria laid out in the person specification, within the job description attached. Requirements include:

  • Dealing with complaints
  • Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
  • Ability to work under pressure and to ensure deadlines are met
  • Excellent communication skills both written and oral and a good telephone manner.

    NYAS operates robust safe procedures to ensure the protection of the children, young people and adults at risk we work with. To comply with NYAS's Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, references and a Digital Risk Assessment.

    We reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we receive a high number of applications.

    About NYAS

    As an established leading rights-based charity, NYAS (National Youth Advocacy Service) is well positioned to ensure that children, young people, and adults across England and Wales are fully respected, represented, and supported in expressing their views and having their rights upheld.

    We work with care-experienced children, young people, and adults who are often reliant on statutory services suffering the negative impact of the cuts in public expenditure. Our combination of social care and legal services places us in a unique position to ensure that they receive the services they need and that their voices are heard.

    We are an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment which means NYAS welcomes applications from all individuals regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or belief, or any other protected characteristic.

    NYAS is proud to share that we are a Disability Confident Employer and we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.

    Work with us to help change young lives.

    Interviews will be held week commencing 9th September 2024. The starting salary is negotiable depending on experience.

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