Ryan Murphy Email & Phone Number

Custody case worker for DCF

• Oversee a large county area and the four teams that provide assessments, Child in Need Work, Child Protection Work, and Child in Care Work in a diverse economic community ranging from the top 1% wealthiest areas in the country to the bottom 1% most economically disparaged communities in the country. • Provide 1:1 supervision of management staff with regards to case management and supervisees work related needs. • Hold line management oversight and authorisation for a combined area budget of £2.9 million consisting of 50 staff members. • Address Stage 1 and Stage 2 Complaints raised by service users in accordance with the Local Authority’s Complaints Procedure and participate in Stage 3 Complaints procedures. • Chair Legal Strategy Meetings alongside Public Law Outline meetings • Focus on county wide recruitment strategies increasing county wide permanent staffing levels. • Chair Child in Need county wide steering group• Act as local representative to area wide collaboration academy seeking to improve life and outcomes for local residents.

London, United Kingdom

• Oversaw a Locality Child Protection Team of seventeen workers to ensure that children and families receive a good standard of practice, whilst ensuring that all key performance indicators are met, whilst directly supervising two Deputy Team Managers and the Advanced Practitioner. • Spearheaded permanent recruitment drive liaising with several recruitment agencies to hire domestic and international social workers. • Improved overall Key Performance Indicators over a one and half year period: Child and Family Assessment Team Statistics from 60% in timescale to 99% in timescale: S47s in timescale from 56% to 94%, and CP visits from 33% to 95%. • Addressed all Stage 1 Complaints raised by service users in accordance with the Local Authority’s Complaints Procedure and participate in Stage 2 Complaints procedures. • Represented Children Services at local gang intelligence-based meetings including targeted gang deterrence of high-risk gangs and gang nominal across the borough. • Implemented a service wide tracking template to ensure that all staff remain accountable and able to identify unmet areas of work, whilst ensuring that service data is readily available for senior management staff for review. • Authorised payments within the team in order to ensure funding was balanced and in line with Council fiscal responsibility • Acted as a liaison between Children Services and Locality based Children Centres to ensure early intervention services were meeting the needs of identified CIN and CP families.

London, United Kingdom

• Provided 1:1 supervision of staff with regards to case management and supervisees work related needs. • Coached and mentored new staff to work within a large organisation and develop both personal and professional growth.• Offered trainings to professional networks with regards to Child Protection Procedures and completion of chronologies. • Oversaw six staff and their caseloads to ensure that plans were implemented and worked within appropriate timescales to seek best possible outcomes for children and families. • Oversaw contact with Children’s Centres with Locality Area to provide point of contact in order to address Child Protection Concerns as they arise. • Authorised payments within the team in order to ensure funding was balanced and in line with Council fiscal responsibility • Interviewed all prospective incoming new Social Workers and Senior Social Workers within Safer Recruitment Practices.

London, United Kingdom

• Process and allocate incoming work, in conjunction with duty manager, to back office Family Service Workers, Social Workers and Senior Social Workers to undertake further enquiries. • Chair Team Around the Family meetings in order to co-ordinate professional networks to ensure that families receive appropriate support that best meets their family needs. • Provide one to one supervision with a Family Worker and Student on a regular basis with regards to case management and supervisees work related needs. • Coached teams Family Workers in order to address their growth, development, and performance needs.• Undertake initial screening visits and phone conversations in order to provide support and advice to service users and professional network with regards to Child Protection concerns and available resources within the local authority for Children in Need of Services. • Co-ordinated ECIRS professional feedback survey to assess the team’s first year progress.• Undertook analytical feedback of the services performance compiling data in relation to demographics, referral sources, reasons for referrals, and outcomes• Liaised with MARAC, Operation MILVUS and Community Anti-Social Behaviour Panel as Children’s Services point of contact and Safeguarding Lead

London, United Kingdom

• Provided one to one supervision for four Family Workers on a fortnightly basis with regards to case management and supervisees work related needs. • Developed educational behavioural plans with local high schools for children at high risk of permanent exclusion. • Chaired weekly allocation forum of multi-disciplinary team in order to assess, accept and distribute referred work within the team, to the best suited team member, to work with the family. • Liaise between SAFE Adolescent Service and external agencies; including schools, social services, police, YOS, and other agencies; to determine the appropriateness of referrals and ensure that the families ongoing needs were being met. • Spearheaded SAFE’s transition onto Council wide database Framework-I in order to manage case loads and individual case files with greater efficiency.

London, United Kingdom

Ealing Council: Referral and Assessment Team, Ealing, UK 2007-2012Senior Social Worker • Conducted initial home and site visits to determine the initial course of action provided to a family by Social services, and compiled information into Initial and Core Assessments to ascertain appropriate relevant resources, and assess Child Protection concerns. • Chaired and participated in Children in Need’s meetings to best monitor the effectiveness of various agencies working with the client. • Inducted all new members of staff within the team and mentored Newly Qualified Social Workers in order to assure that they understood and work in accordance with Child Protection Procedures. • Attended external agency panels as Social Services representative to ensure families were allocated appropriate resources, in accordance with their needs.

Key West, Florida

• Conducted on going weekly to monthly visits to children and their carers to ensure ongoing safety and stability of the children, as well as to monitor parents participation with their case plans. • Authored Client Treatment Plans, Judicial Review, Termination of Parental Rights motions, and other legal documents to provide written evidence to the Courts with regards to the clients’ progress towards completion of Court assigned tasks. • Network with professional groups including: Solicitors, Drug Treatment Providers, Jails, Domestic Violence organizations, schools, and other related treatment providers, in order to form a treatment network to ensure client has best possible treatment outcome. • Acted as a liaison between the agency and the Monroe County Jail in order to help incarcerated clients actively participate in the completion of their case plans.

Concord, Massachusetts

• Completed intake evaluations and mental health needs assessment for incoming inmates regarding mental health needs. • Provided individual formal counselling with a caseload of 10-15 clients, to an incarcerated population with a variety of issues ranging from: Behavioural issues, Substance Abuse Treatment, Suicidality, Severe mental illness, Family Struggles, Poverty, Racism, and Adjustment to incarceration • Formulated initial mental health treatment plans and complete treatment plan updates to ensure that all inmates’ mental health needs are properly met.• Provided crisis intervention to inmates in need of immediate services.

Greater Boston Area

• Provided individual formal counselling with a caseload of 10-16 clients, to an inner city teenage population with a variety of issues ranging from: Behavioural issues, Substance Abuse Treatment Suicide, Homelessness, Family Struggles, Poverty, Racism, Sexism, Job Assistance, Identity Issues, and Teen Parenting Support• Co facilitated groups targeting defined “at risk” young men to help achieve success in school, as well as develop life skills for outside of the school environment• Worked in conjunction with Student Support, administrators, and school police providing case management to determine proper supports needed by student cliental on a daily basis• Assisted in STOPWATCH program with MBTA, Department of Youth Services and Boston Public Schools, targeted at identifying disruptive, and “at risk” youth without initiating intrusive police contact so behaviour can be dealt with through the schools, parents, or referred to another agency

Kennebec County, Maine

• Followed and taught lesson plans assigned by permanent teacher for students in Kindergarten through 12th grade.• Implemented activities and techniques for promoting quality student performance.• Determined appropriate consequences for inappropriate student behaviour.• Implemented creative activities to ensure assigned learning goals were met, including use of technology.

Sidney, Maine

• Provided individual and group counselling to adult male population suffering from substance abuse and dual diagnosis• Distributed medication to clients suffering from mental illness• Transported cliental to and from appointments and AA meetings

Masters, Social Work, Masters Of Social Work

Bachelor'S Degree, Psychology