Head of Service – Front Door/MASH

Head of Service Youth Justice/Front DOor
3-month interim contract
£500-£600 per day inside IR35, via Umbrella
South of England, Local Authority 
 
An exciting new opportunity offered as an initial 6-month interim role as additional capacity to work closely with the Assistant Director of Children’s Social Care to deliver strategic improvements in partnership working across the council wide service.
 
Currently the service is facing a huge demand of referrals per month, and a large part of this role is supporting the re-education of partnership and give the tools to support children in the Youth Justice system.
 
My client will be shortlisting for interviews on Friday 20th June and holding MS Teams interviews next week.
 
 
Your duties as Head of Service Youth Justice.
 

• You’ll be responsible for ensuring that the Youth Justice & Front DOor services are responsive, dynamic and effective in delivering community based universal and targeted services based on evidence of identified need to meet the needs of the children and families within the Borough.
• You’ll be responsible for providing leadership and oversight of the Youth Justice & Front preventative services.
• Strategically lead and oversee the day-to-day service delivery of the Children’s services Youth Justice & Front Door preventative and support services.
• Ensure children in need of help and protection are identified in a timely way and their needs responded to effectively and proportionately.
• Ensure high standards of social work practice in line with the Children’s Services systemic model of practice so that all children and families both in universal and targeted and those in need of help and protection are in receipt of good quality, proportionate assessments.

 
 
Experience as Strategic Head of Service Youth Justice
 

• Social care qualification with active SWE registration
• Must have Strategic and operational leadership in Head of Service role previously with subject matter understanding of specialist areas
• Key skills in leadership and positives improving the quality/impact of partnerships must be clearly demonstrated.
• A systemic practice background.
• Be able to demonstrate experience of managing large and complex budgets.
• Good references available for last 2 years in post.

 
If you’re interested in discussing this opportunity in more detail or know someone who this may be of interest to, please contact me on 0117 3137110 or apply today.
 
(We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact

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