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Children’s Placements & Quality Assurance Manager

Job Posted: 4 days ago

  • Salary: £ 120,000/Annum

    Job Type: Contract

  • Location: Greater London

Expire in: 23 days

Job Description

Children’s Placements & Quality Assurance Manager Initial 3 month interim contract but with scope to extend up to 6 months Inside IR35 £500 per day (umbrella) Home Counties, full-time (hybrid working) An exciting new interim opportunity has arisen within a Local Authority in the Home Counties for an experienced Children’s Placements & Quality Assurance Manager to support across the provider services portfolio for an initial 3-6-month interim period. My client has further invested in the team creating this additional capacity role and is seeking interim support whilst they look to appoint permanently to the post. The role will encompass a number of exciting projects including School Placements & Developing a new QA framework. Application deadline is ASAP with interviews taking place later this week. About your duties as the Children’s Placements & Quality Assurance Manager: Helping Establish a new Children Placement Commissioning functions, including , supplier relationships, brokerage, contract management and quality assurance Develop am operational model to meet SEND placement needs Develop a placement Quality Assurance framework across Childrens Social Care and SEND placements Support the development of sufficiency strategies Support the Strategic Placement board in developing in insight into placement usage, cost and impact for children Establishing reporting mechanisms and a clear information led approach to the work of the team This role will require you to work with external providers across Residential Services, IFA, Private Adoption providers and other external placement providers You will collaborate with social work teams to source best fit and value placements for CYP across the region with a focus on local placements Oversight of a commissioning team and ability to work with complex placement needs  Your experience needed as the Children’s Placements Commissioning Manager: Essential to have commissioning experience within Children’s Placements within a local authority or Children’s Trust setting. Evidence good communication skills and working with external provider services Able to work on and use own initiative Proven experience of working with suppliers  Must hold a valid enhanced DBS or be able to undertake a new one Available references for most recent 5 year's roles  If you’re interested in discussing the project and this opportunity in more detail or know someone who this may be of interest to, please contact me on (phone number removed) or email your CV to (url removed) (We offer a senior referral scheme upon successful placement of your recommendation so please do get in contact)
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