Social Work Partners are currently recruiting for a IRO Team Manager in Jersey. You must be registered with Social Work England to apply for this role.
Role Details
- Rate of Pay – £60PH
Jersey Children’s Social Care is looking for a skilled and enthusiastic interim manager to manage the Child Protection Chairs and Independent Reviewing Officers across a combined service. We are looking for an experienced, confident and reliable individual, who is committed and passionate about delivering better outcomes for our children and families. This role requires the manager to be resident in Jersey.
The successful candidate will need to:
- Be a champion for children
- Have experience of working in or with the a child protection conference and review team, preferably including some experience of managing allegations against staff or volunteers working with children.
- Provide good quality reflective supervision
- Support the service with its improvement journey
- Contribute to the quality assurance framework, including challenge both inside and outside of the organisation using high support high challenge.
- Be able to write reports and analyse data.
The candidate will be supported to carry out the following duties responsibilities and training:
- Support the Head of Service in providing strong leadership for the service, based on a clear vision of the outcomes to be achieved for children on child protection plans, children in care, and allegations against staff and volunteers and the ways in which this will be done.
- Ensure the service has effective operational and strategic relationships across other government departments, partner agencies and the voluntary sector, in relation to child protection, safeguarding and children in care. This will include development of strategies to improve performance.
- Maintain effective monitoring and quality assurance within the team to make sure that reviews, conferences and managing allegation meetings are conducted within accordance with policy and procedure set within the service and safeguarding partnership board.
- Directly contribute to the quality assurance framework. To maintain processes for measuring, reporting on and monitoring to assure and improve the quality of practice within the team and across the service.
About Us:
Social Work Partners were established to make a positive difference across the Social Care and Work recruitment market, guided by our principals – Care, Communication and Community. Our team have been specially chosen due to their experience and will work with you to support and develop your career. We understand how busy you are, so we have made sure that all of processes are smooth and automated to make your registration with us as quick as possible.
Working with Social Work Partners:
- Your own experienced Consultant to support with all areas of your journey with us, from CV reviewing through to interview tips and onboarding in your new role
- Access to the widest variety of social work jobs be it agency, permanent and consultative projects, a number of these exclusively to Social Work Partners
- Reliable weekly payroll
- Support with exclusive CPD, and training opportunities to further your development
- Yearly events for our community
- Dedicated teams to support with timesheets, and compliance
- Substantive referral fees paid*
For more information, please contact us at [email protected]. Due to our relationships, and frameworks in place, we can offer a top tier status nationally which enables us to offer exclusive roles before other agencies may have access to them