Social Work Improvement Manager

The Job

Social Work Improvement Manager – Fixed Term

Salary £43,368 p.a. This is an exciting time for social work in Newham:- national developments like the Munro review present a once in a lifetime opportunity to redesign social work around children and families rather than process and procedure.

- locally, we are already a long way into this journey. Our recent redesign emphasised early intervention through building resilience and capacity with dramatic implications for all our services.

- our new Intensive Family Intervention service enables a radical redrawing of support to families with multiple problems which we are exploiting as a Phase 2 Community Budget pilot area

- and we are committed to commissioning a new IT system to support improved social work practice and enhance our use of data across our work with children and families.

The Person

We are looking for innovative, enthusiastic and experienced people to bring these various developments together into a comprehensive and co-ordinated programme for Social Work Improvement in Newham. The brand new Social Work Improvement Team will consist of a programme manager (new), two development managers (new), one business analyst (existing post), one training officer (existing post) and two business support officers (new).As Development Manager, you will be responsible for leading key projects, e.g. in respect of Community Budgets, social care IT, measuring impact of interventions, etc. Alongside, strong project management skills, we expect to see a good knowledge of the policy and practice context for children’s social care and evidence of effective delivery of service improvement. Closing date: 6th March 2012