Transformation Lead - Children’s Services

InterimTransformation Lead - Children’s Services
Reference no: K&C 5248960
Pay Rate: £205.05 per day PAYE
36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 12 months
City: KENSINGTON, LONDON
The role entails identifying placements across foster care, residential, semi-independent, parent and child -local and national- agreeing best match and fee is crucial- you will undertake duty work and also ensure contracts are completed.
Key Responsibilities:
Receive all requests for new or changes of placement for looked after children in order to provide advice and ensure appropriate placement finding processes are followed.
Maintain an overview of children’s placements, advising managers on trends and implications, in particularly regarding placement stability and high cost or long-term external placements.
Work alongside and support social workers seeking placements, matching and placing children and reviewing and monitoring outcomes.
Work closely with the department’s fostering service and children’s homes to maximise the opportunities to place children with in-house resources.
Develop and maintain contract arrangements with Private and Voluntary Children’s Homes and Independent Fostering Agencies through the Pan London agreement – replace pan London with commission alliance .
Act alongside, or on behalf of social workers, in negotiating the price and contractual arrangements for purchased placements.
Assist social workers to monitor outcomes and contract compliance and take up any issues of non-compliance with service providers.
Maintain a database of information on placements and give information to, and receive information from, workers in the department and other local authorities.
Assist in identifying gaps in placement provision and contribute to the commissioning strategy for LAC.
Work within the equalities policy and ensure that the diverse needs of LAC are given due weight in placement recommendations / decisions.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles
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