Job Description\ N Job Description\n \n Lead and manage the locality social work team through relational and motivational leadership, ensuring the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of services for children and families. \ N Provide robust staff support and supervision and promote continuous professional development across the team. \ N Ensure integrated services for children and families in the locality, working collaboratively with statutory and voluntary partners. \ N Contribute to the transformation of services for children and families in Moray in line with The Promise. \ N Responsibilities\n \ N Provide direction, guidance and support on assessing need, managing risk, implementing plans and evaluating outcomes. Ensure proportionate responses to risk that keep children and families at the centre of decision-making. \ N Oversee and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of services against agreed standards, supporting the delivery of the Children’s Services plan and The Promise. \ N Identify practice and staff development needs, provide effective supervision and support, and promote continuous improvement within the team. \ N Lead and contribute to service improvement in line with The Promise and national and local priorities, identifying development needs across the service. \ N Promote a relational culture across the service, supporting staff with kindness, understanding and positive role modelling. \ N The Individual\n - Considerable post-qualifying experience in Children’s Services social work. \ N - Previous supervisory responsibilities within a locality team or equivalent setting. \ N - Experience in multi-agency working. \ N - Experience of assessing need and risk in Children’s Services practice. \ N - CQSW or CSS or Dip SW and SSSC Registration \ N - Ability to chair meetings effectively. \ N - Ability to provide purposeful leadership in team and multi-agency settings. \ N - Effective analytical and evaluative skills, with the ability to think clearly. \ N - Capacity to manage change. \ N - A broad professional outlook. \ N - Ability to use a range ofIT packages. \ N - Able to develop services and projects. \ N - Able to develop services and projects. \ N - Ability to consider services in their structural and organisational context. \ N - Ability to use financial and human resources effectively. \ N - A strong professional commitment to integrated working and to the role of social work. \ N - Effective chairing skills. \ N - Sound knowledge of socialwork theory and research, with the ability to: \ N (i) relate theory and research to practice; \n (ii) promote thedevelopment of informed practice. \ N - Able to liaise, plan and negotiate effectively at a senior level and across agency boundaries. \ N - A commitment to deliver quality services to agreed standards. \ N - Ability to work collaboratively as part of a management team. \ N - Ability to travel efficiently and effectively between work locations across Moray to meet the service’s operational requirements. Due to Moray’s rural nature, this is normally undertaken using a car or van. \ N - Effective communication, presentation and negotiation skills. \ N - Ability to be available and accessible to staff. \ N - Capacity to make decisions under pressure. \ N - Ability to form productive and enabling working relationships. \ N - Ability to work with honesty and integrity, in line with SSSC codes of practice. \ N - Willingness to work outside office hours. \ N - Ability to work as a leader across different offices and staff teams, according to service requirements. \ N - Ability to work in an open-plan or shared office. \ N This post is considered to be a ‘Regulated Role’ under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. Under the Act it is a legal requirement for an individual undertaking a regulated role with children or protected adults to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme. \ N Therefore, the successful candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check prior to any formal offer of employment being made by Moray Council \ N Closing Date: 27th November 2026 \ N Starting Salary: £59170.15 \ N Hourly Rate: £31.39 \ N Hours: 36.25 per week \ N Contact person: Donna Sutherland, Service Manager / donna.sutherland@moray.gov.uk / Phone no: 01343 557922 \ N \n
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