This is a great time to join Plymouth’s leadership team as a Service Manager in our Children, Young People and Families Service. Our ILACS in January 2024 found some good practice and some key practice strengths. Our MASH is now operating effectively. Child protection work was found to be timely and appropriate, with a clear understanding of risks for children with timely assessment and support to families which is preventing drift and delay for children in proceedings. Many social workers know their children well and build positive relationships with them. For most children, decision-making for them to come into care is appropriate and in their best interests.
Through our new three-year plan, Heading for Excellence, we are building on these strengths with a programme designed to ensure all children and young people benefit from the right help at the right time, experience high quality assessment and planning which improves wider outcomes for them, keeping families together where possible and working closely with partners to keep children and young people safe, improve attendance, educational attainment, health and wellbeing.
We are developing a high performing and well supported workforce delivering our trauma informed, restorative and strengths-based practice approach. We are determined that within the next three years we will deliver good and outstanding outcomes for all of the children and young people we are working with.
Our Safeguarding and Quality Assurance Service is a key part of our commitment to practice improvement and improving outcomes for children and young people. As Service Manager you will have the opportunity to maximise the impact of our independent chairs on planning and outcomes for children and young people, oversight of our LADO arrangements and will play a key role in our work with partners to ensure a strong and effective safeguarding system. We are looking for an individual with an excellent understanding of outstanding safeguarding practices and a proven track record in delivering quality assurance and developing high performing teams. At the heart of everything you do, will be a passion to ensure that children, young people and their families achieve positive and improved outcomes and are effectively safeguarded.
You will be joining a service which is trauma informed, restorative and relational in how we work with families. In return, we will provide access to a high-quality leadership development programme and a 'high expectation, high support, high challenge' culture in a service which is ambitious about improving outcomes for all children and young people.