Ruby Brewer Email & Phone Number

Southampton, GB

• Managing day-to-day client enquiries.
• Maintaining standards of service across the portfolio via robust quality assurance.
• Leading resource planning for reg.44 services.
• Assisting in recruiting new associates, and support to existing associates
• Providing monthly/quarterly reports to clients as necessary.

Providing monthly visits and robust, evidence based reports to local authority and independent children's homes under regulation 44 of the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015, providing assurance as to whether children's homes are effectively safeguarding children and promoting their well-being.

Undertaking annual reviews of foster carers, identifying what's gone well and what support carers might need to have an even better year ahead. Also chairing standards of care reviews to make sure that high standards of safe quality care are upheld, and learning identified.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Independent social work services, including:-Independent persons visits (reg.44/25) -Fostering assessment and reviews -Preparation for inspection-Readiness for regulation for post 16 supported accommodation for care leavers-Auditing and quality assurance.-Accredited safer recruitment training

Leading a team of quality assurance, safeguarding, policy and information governance professionals. Strategic planning to deliver a continuous cycle of quality assurance and improvement. Providing non-operational oversight of safeguarding practice, policy and procedures across the organisation.

Leading a team of quality assurance, information governance, policy and strategic planning/project management professionals. Providing non-operational oversight of safeguarding practice across the organisation.

Delivering high quality assurance visits and reports to children's homes (reg.44) and residential family centre (reg.25)

Providing monthly visits and robust, evidence based reports under regulation 44 of the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015, providing assurance as to whether children's homes are effectively safeguarding children and promoting their well-being.

Undertaking:-Fostering assessments (form F)-Independent visitor service (reg.44/25)-ASYE assessment and support-Practice educator for student social workers

Senior practitioner in a unitary authority children looked after/care leavers team. Responsible for supervising a team of social workers and personal advisors, quality assurance and deputising in the absence of the team manager.

Holding a complex caseload of children looked after and care leavers.

School-based social worker, working with schools identified as having significant levels of persistent absenteeism and delivering early intervention for children at risk of exclusion or who wouldn't quite meet the threshold for statutory children's services.

Responsible for supporting school clusters with high levels of persistent absenteeism. Supporting schools with their attendance systems and processes, and working with families to improve their children's school attendance. Preparing and presenting court applications to promote school attendance. Representing the service at multi agency child protection.

Responsible for supporting school clusters to improve school attendance. Supporting schools with their attendance systems and processes, and working with families to improve their children's school attendance. Preparing and presenting court applications to promote school attendance.

Managing a summer playscheme for children aged 3-19 with learning disabilities / autism. Planning and delivery of activities, recruitment and training of volunteers and staff.

Employed every summer holiday to run a group within a summer playscheme for children aged 3-19 with learning disabilities / autism. Responsible for a group of children and volunteers, developing and delivering activities, coordinating care, training volunteers.

Essex, England, United Kingdom

Bank worker in a number of different residential homes across Essex for adults with learning disabilities.

Thurrock, England, United Kingdom

Volunteer on a summer playscheme for children aged 4-19 with learning disabilities/autism.

Post Graduate (Pq 2-4) Critical Thinking, Social Work

Pq1, Social Work

Bsc Social Work Studies, Dipsw, Social Work, 2:1

Education record

Pg Certificate In Social Work Practice Education (Pq5&6)