| Job Type: | contract | Duration: | 14 days |
| Category: | Medical or Health | Recruiter Reference: | 572 |
| URL for Applications: | Apply Here | Salary: |
About the role
Reporting to the Associate Director of Children's Services, you will lead and support a skilled multidisciplinary team delivering specialist psychosocial support to children, young people and families. You will champion the social work perspective across the organisation and play a key role in shaping service development and safeguarding practice.
You'll be
- Leading, supervising and developing the Child and Family Support Team.
- Providing strategic leadership for children's safeguarding across the organisation.
- Managing a complex social work caseload and providing casework supervision.
- Working in partnership with families, health professionals, education providers and statutory agencies.
- Representing the organisation at operational and strategic meetings.
- Supporting transition planning for young people moving into adult services.
- Contributing to education, training and student social work placements.
About us
Southern Hospice Group is the largest group of hospices in Sussex and one of the largest in the UK. We are committed to providing exceptional and compassionate care to adults, children and their families across Sussex. Bringing our teams and resources together as one organisation means we can focus on new and exciting visions and plans for our people and patients and provide even greater opportunities for our workforce.
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Benefits
We warmly welcome applications from all sections of our community. We also invite applications from suitably experienced people for all industry sectors who can demonstrate the skills, ability and enthusiasm to work with a people-centric organisation like ours.
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Your application and interview should give us an accurate and authentic picture of your skills and experiences. Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
Before you submit an application, we will ask you to confirm the information you provide is true and accurate. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the published closing date where applicant volume is high.
Some of our roles are subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it may be necessary for a disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.