Head of Service

Head of Service
Childrens Residential
Location: North West
Pay rate:  £500 per day

We are looking for an experienced and passionate Head of Service. With responsibility for Childrens Residential. The successful candidate will be available to travel to the authority 3 days per week.
In this role you will:
 
Perfect candidate will be:

• Qualified Social Worker registered with Social Work England.
• BA/MA/BSc/MSc Social Work, CQSW, DipSW, CSS or CCETSW approved equivalent).
• Must have experience managing a hospital discharge service
• Enhanced DBS
• 4 Years plus Qualified

 
In this role you will:

• Have day to day operational responsibility for ensuring the smooth running of all aspects of discharge planning and processing, ensuring local and national standards are achieved.
• Support the site lead Operations Director in the delivery of strategic and operational objectives to achieve discharge at the right time, first time.
• Undertake continual review of the hospital adult social work team processes to ensure a co-ordinated and partnership approach to discharge management and minimise delayed transfers of care
• Lead, manage and support the team through change and the development of new roles and associated ways of working in line with integration.
• Use skills, knowledge, and experience to make full assessment of risks protection and social care needs.
• Manage an agreed case load.
• Use specialist communication skills to achieve optimum outcomes for service users.
• Devise individual care plans, taking account of diversity and promoting dignity and empowerment.
• Offer advice and support to unqualified staff and students to assist development.

This is an agency post and Pertemps can offer you:-
Dedicated consultant who has access to all roles across the UK and is available for you to speak to, easy registration process, referral schemes and incentives, ongoing compliance managed for you, prompt and reliable payroll and lots more.
This role is ideally located for those travelling from Preston, Fulwood, Blackpool, Carlise, Lancaster, Morecombe, Fleetwood, Garstang, Keswick, Coniston, Penrith, Grasmere, Windemere, Kendal, Cockermouth, Brampton, Whitehaven, Kirkby Longsdale, Dalton in Furness, Barrow in Furness,  Windermere, Penrith, Workington

Not looking right now? We also offer generous referral bonuses so please pass on to a colleague or friend who may be!  
 
We recruit across all areas of Qualified Social Work. If you are a Social Worker and this is not the role for you, contact us about other roles including IRO (Independence Reviewing Officer), BIA (Best Interest Assessor), Child & Family,  MASH, Children Looked After, Localities, Children in Need. Child Protection, Court,  Children’s Social Work, Adult Social Work, Service Manager, Head of Service, Team Manager and Assistant Team Manager.