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United Kingdom

Deputy Director - Operations and Improvement (covering national profile)

Act Up position into Director role within the Council - continued strategic oversight across Children’s Social Care but expanded following Act Up of Director of Children’s Services into Deputy Chief Executive Role.

Strategic oversight of all aspects of Children’s Social Care - strategic leadership and management of operational delivery of Children’s Social Care services across Cheshire West and Chester from integrated front door (iART) and EDT, through to oversight of all activity for Children and Families within CSC; through assessment, CIN, CP, PLO, CLA, Fostering.

Oldham, United Kingdom

This post provides strategic leadership for Social Work services for Children and Families in Oldham; overseeing Social Work Practice with responsibility for Heads of Service across Assessment, Fieldwork (CIN, CP, PLO, CiC), the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH), Children with Disabilities teams, Short Breaks, EDT and Complex Safeguarding Hub (including.

Winsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Senior management oversight of iART (Integrated Children’s Social Care / Early Help and Prevention Front Door), Emergency Duty Team, Locality Child in Need Teams and Locality Child in Care Team. Working within a consistently Good authority who seek to be innovative in practice.Specific leadership oversight of the integrated front door innovation, digital.

CIN/CP

Team of the Year - Children's Services at Social Worker of the Year Awards 2016.Managing a team of social workers, senior practice lead and a number of student social workers who case manage children and families from point of referral; this includes single assessments, child in need planning, child protection planning, pre-­proceedings work, initial care.

CART

This was a team manager position overseeing the Children's Social Care "Front door". This involved supervising five social workers and four contact and referral officers. The role focussed on overseeing the decision making at the "frontdoor" of Children's Social Care and managing the decision making of whether statutory social work intervention.

This was an experienced social worker role that focussed oncase managing a small, complex caseload alongside a key responsibility for both supporting and developing newly qualified staff, and supporting the improvement of practice within frontline social work teams. I was given the opportunity within this role to take a lead role on developing the single.

Qualified social worker role including duty and assessment, safeguarding, children in care and period within generic CSC team.Also included sessional EDT work.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Social Work

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Law And Criminology, 2:1