Head of Children in Care Provision

2 weeks ago

Matlock, United Kingdom Derbyshire County Council Full time

**Head of Children in Care Provision**

**Matlock/Hybrid**

**£57,334 - £62,887**

A unique and exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, ambitious, and motivated Head of Service for Homes for Children in Care, in Derbyshire. This role brings together the supervisory responsibility and leadership for several services which directly contribute to improving outcomes for our children in care. These are:

- Eleven homes for Children in Care, 4 for disabled children and 7 are for children without a disability in a mixture of residential and short-break homes and
- the Outback - which provides, a countywide service of tailored support packages, such as parenting assessments and supervised family time for disabled children.
- Derbyshire has a vibrant countywide fostering service
- Whilst the majority of adoption work has transferred to the Regional Adoption Agency, Derbyshire has retained non-agency adoption and the birth family support elements of the service.

This role is pivotal in ensuring our children continue to receive high quality care in Derbyshire’s homes the majority of which are OFSTED rated as either Outstanding or Good. As Head of Service, you will play a crucial role in ensuring placement sufficiency, leading transformation work for the residential service and the Fostering Modernisation Programme currently in progress.

The post requires strong strategic and operational leadership across the services and partnerships, in particular with health, education, and adult services. The Head of Service significantly contributes to Derbyshire’s Corporate Parenting aspirations in ensuring that we act as good parents and that our children in care receive warm and inspirational parenting. You will be supported in this by experienced Operational Managers and work closely with the Heads of Service of children’s social work teams, to promote a joined up approach that raises ambitions and outcomes, with and for, our children in care.

Derbyshire already has a strong fostering service with amazing foster carers and great staff and managers and is committed to continuous improvement of practice and service delivery. Likewise, our homes managers are equally strong, and we have a committed dedicated residential workforce. You will therefore need to have a passion for developing and influencing practice improvement of a large workforce that continually strives to be the best they can be.

As the Head of Service, you will lead on related projects, evaluate, and reshape services as and when required and influence specific strategic priorities.

You will hold a relevant qualification in childcare, preferably a qualification in Social Work, have a minimum of 5 years management experience in children’s Social Care, including service delivery, performance management and effective financial management. In particular you will have extensive experience in children in care work and demonstrate skills in adhering to, and exceeding, relevant quality standards. This includes having the necessary experience and knowledge to meet the regulations to be a Responsible Individual as defined in the Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and to fulfil the Agency Decision Maker role for fostering.

For an informal discussion contact or If you require further information about the post - please do contact Smruti Mehta, Assistant Director, Specialist Services on 07824835545

The ability to travel is requirement for this post.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £57,334.00-£62,887.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Matlock

Reference ID: JOB/22/05307

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