The Role
Are you organised and passionate about helping young people in need?
If so, we are looking for someone capable of managing a fast-paced role within our 16+ service, which supports children in care and care leavers aged 16 to 25.
About Us:
Our Children's Services is dedicated to providing outstanding support to vulnerable children and families in Southwark. Our systemically-informed, relationship-based approach prioritises the needs of each child, working purposefully with families to manage risk, promote positive outcomes, and create lasting change.
Our most recent Ofsted inspection was graded as ‘good’ in all areas. The children in our care said we are a “special council and are like a family to them”.
About the Team:
Our teams are made up of friendly, dedicated, and experienced professionals who are passionate about making a positive impact. We operate an Independence Hub, led by a Team Manager and supported by Personal Advisors, who regularly engage with our 21+ adults, offering practical support to care-experienced adults.
We also run the Talfourd Place Hub, a project that is developing workshops, external services, with group activities to serve and support care-experienced young people and adults. Additionally, we have an Age Assessment service that tracks milestones to ensure unaccompanied children and young people receive the support they need.
About the Role:
You will provide comprehensive and confidential business support within the Care and Care Leaver Service for the above. Your responsibilities will include setting up and managing data tools, tracking outcomes, supporting activities, screening referrals liaising with the finance service to monitor activity. The role will include support to our Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children. You will also support colleagues in maintaining and developing systems, alongside other administrative tasks as directed by the Service/Team Manager and Head of Service.
You will be responsible for setting up and tracking data related to Freedom of Information requests, such as citizenship status and applications. Additionally, you will provide project support for targeted research and innovation aimed at improving our services. IT support, data production, and the preparation of reports and meeting papers in formats such as Excel and PowerPoint will also be part of your role.
Your role will be to:
- Gather and collate data, providing analysis to demonstrate the team’s performance and the effectiveness of work with children and care leavers aged 16-25.
- Support the team with tracking tools to enhance allocation capacity across the service, assisting the Manager in allocating cases to Personal Advisors and Social Workers based on assessed and changing needs.
- Help the service close cases in a timely manner or allocate them to the Virtual Duty Worker (Independence Hub).
- Review cases assigned to the Virtual Duty Worker, report on them by providing cohort data to the manager, enabling appropriate case allocation or closure when a service is no longer requested or as individual’s age out.
- Distribute newsletters and other information regularly and as needed to identified cohorts of young people, volunteers, and other stakeholders.
- Track the number of care leavers returning to the service, monitor the completion of their assessments, and oversee their subsequent allocation.
- Support user engagement activities.
For more information, please see the job description and person specification located at the bottom of the advert.
Contact details:
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Service Manager Leila.Lynch@southwark.gov.uk
Recruitment Timeline:
- Close Date: 11:59pm on Sunday 1st September 2024
- Shortlisting Date(s): Week commencing 2nd September 2024
- Interview Date(s): Week commencing 9th September 2024
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
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