View Vacancy -- Principal Social Worker - Safeguarding and Social Care

Social Care & Welfare Qualified
Permanent
 
£62,200 - £71,900

About Haringey Council

Haringey Council is transforming its services for children and young people, and have already made exciting, innovative changes as we strive for excellence in all we do. We are a council with high ambitions; a place to work that is full of energy and focus. Our teams have passion, integrity and commitment, and people who join us, do so as they see Haringey Council as a learning organisation, and the people that work here strive for continuous improvement in their practice, aiming high to ensure we provide outstanding outcomes for our children.

We offer a great place to develop a career that creatively serves and develops Social work.

About you

As Haringey Council’s Principal Social Worker for Children’s Services you will have lead responsibility for driving forward continual improvement and evaluating the effectiveness of our arrangements to safeguard children. You will provide challenge and support to practitioners, managers and elected members to ensure optimum conditions for high quality practice and service delivery. You will manage and contribute to practice learning arrangements for the children’s workforce ensuring learning opportunities are maximised. You will play a key leadership role in the practice development unit developing and implementing the quality assurance framework.

We are looking for someone with excellent frontline practice skills; sound management experience in children's social care; the ability to analyse complex information and use this to support improvement in practice; a positive communicator who can collaborate, influence, challenge with excellent verbal and written skills. We are looking for someone who is deeply committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable children and their families and will go the extra mile to effect change.

You will have substantial knowledge of the legislation and statutory responsibilities that underpin Children's Social Care, including appropriate performance indicators and quality standards; possessing a unique ability to convert this knowledge into operational learning opportunities to enhance the workforce knowledge.

You will have an unwavering passion for social work, the vision and drive to change outcomes for children, young people and their families and the skills to be part of a leadership team that inspires and supports stakeholders.

For an informal discussion about this role, please contact Bev Hendricks on phone number – 0208 489 7061

 For a full list of benefits on offer, please visit our website:

https://www.haringey.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/working-children-and-young-people-s-service

Closing Date: Monday 29th April 2019

Provisional Interview Dates: Tuesday 28th of May 2019 and Friday 31st of May 2019


For further information please contact the Haringey Hub: Resourcinghub@haringey.gov.uk

This opportunity is closed to applications.