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Form of workJob Description
- Ensuring that the Council performs its statutory duties to assess, support and safeguard children, young people and their families.
- Ensuring that effective arrangements are in place to secure the well-being and health & safety of all team employees.
- Supporting the development of the Council’s policies, processes, practices and systems in respect of the Family Safeguarding Model, contributing to and ensuring that they are current, of a high standard, conform to best practice, comply with relevant legislation and meet Council requirements.
- Taking responsibility for ensuring that plans for children are implemented in accordance with statutory and Council requirements and timescales.
- Ensuring that all team members keep abreast of the Council’s changing legal and statutory obligations to children and families.
- To ensure the team has in place appropriate systems and procedures to prioritise and manage demands on the service by allocating staff and resources appropriately, in accordance with social care assessed need and OCC policies.
- Keeping abreast of changes to policy and procedures and plan for consequent changes to services.
- Ensuring that team staff engage and build positive relationships with children, young people and families to ensure that their needs are at the heart of the delivery of services.
- Promoting restorative and relationship-based practice, including preventing changes of social worker or children’s practitioner for children and families wherever possible.
- Promoting continual service improvement to contribute to improved life chances for children, young people and their families through effective quality assurance of casework.
- Undertaking monthly audits in line with the service’s quality assurance requirements.
- Responding to complaints/concerns raised about services delivery or actions of the team, within required timescales.
