This senior post sits in Community Support at Jewish Care, a health and social care provider for the Jewish community. It leads social work, community support and family carer services, and acts as the organisation's adult and children's safeguarding lead. Three days a week are onsite across 36.25 working hours, and an understanding of the Jewish community is essential. Applicants need a social work qualification, current Social Work England registration and substantial senior experience.
What the job involves
- Set and deliver strategy for social work, community support and family carer services, driving innovation, prevention and early intervention
- Lead adult and children's safeguarding strategy, training, assurance and governance
- Act as professional lead for social work, promoting high practice standards, reflective supervision and workforce planning
- Use data, demographic analysis and community intelligence to identify emerging needs and demonstrate service impact
- Build relationships across health, local authorities and voluntary organisations to create joined-up pathways
- Lead and develop managers and multidisciplinary teams
- Oversee budgets, resources, performance and strategic risk, reporting to senior leaders, governance committees and trustees
- Provide authoritative safeguarding advice and constructive challenge, strengthening culture and organisational learning
- Develop innovative, sustainable models of support that keep people independent at home
- Keep the voices and experiences of people supported central to service development
Qualifications
- Recognised professional qualification in social work
Registration & licences
- Current registration with Social Work England
Experience
- Substantial experience of safeguarding leadership, complex decision-making and organisational assurance
- Track record of professional leadership for social work practice across teams or services
- Leading multidisciplinary services, managing managers or senior practitioners and delivering service transformation
- Budget management, business planning and resource allocation, reporting to senior leaders or governance bodies
Skills & knowledge
- Strong knowledge of adult and children's safeguarding legislation, statutory guidance and social work standards
- Interpreting complex data and turning insight into action and strategic decisions
- Excellent communication, relationship-building and influencing skills
- Commitment to person-centred, strengths-based and culturally responsive practice, focused on prevention, independence and family carer support
- Understanding of the Jewish community, or a willingness to develop it (essential)
Other
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
- Compassionate, collaborative and accountable approach
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
