About the role
Looking for a fast-paced job that will keep you on your toes? We’re looking for an experienced Social Work professional to join us and support the MASH to run smoothly.
You'll be in charge of sticking to the MASH core elements:
- All notifications relating to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children to go through the hub.
- Co-location of professionals from core agencies to research, interpret and determine what is proportionate and relevant to share.
- The MASH activity is confidential and separate from operational activity and providing a confidential record system of activity to support this.
- An agreed process for analysing and assessing risk, based on the fullest information picture and dissemination of a suitable information product to the most appropriate agency for necessary action.
- A process to identify victims and emerging harm through research and analysing.
Your day-to-day involves overseeing the MASH operations, projects, and initiatives. You'll be the go-to person for making sure our collaboration with other agencies is positive and effective. If there are any issues, you'll step in, challenge, support, and educate our partners to meet our standards.
You'll also be the brains behind developing the analytical side of MASH. This means figuring out who in the community needs our help the most, who might be a risk, and where we need to focus our attention.
Working closely with other leaders, you'll sort out any issues affecting MASH performance. And it's crucial that you represent the MASH well – be it with our team, partners, elected members, or other authorities.
We need someone who can keep our MASH running well, build strong partnerships, ensure high standards, and contribute to the strategic development of our analytical function. Oh, and doing all this while being the friendly face of MASH in a range of different professional settings!
If this sounds like an role that suits your skill set, we'd love to hear from you! For more information, call Beth on 01223 475920 or email joinus@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
We expect interviews to be held on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of April at New Shire Hall in Alconbury Weald.
In Children’s Services we are working to reshape what we do and how we do it. Why not be part of it?
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
This role will be required to work from a Police building and therefore this post will be subject to the outcome of a Police vetting check.
We support flexible working requests from day one of employment and so we are open to discussing different working patterns to help you bring your best self to work.
What will you be doing?
- You’ll work closely with the Team Managers, who support Social Workers and other MASH Officers, while being a catalyst for improvement, promoting a culture of continuous learning, reviewing practice standards and refining systems and processes.
- You'll keep the Head of Service for the Integrated Front Door in the loop, escalating any concerns for advice and resolution. You're the eyes and ears, ensuring everyone's on the same page and up to date on legislation and practice guidelines.
- You’ll continually monitor and review referral activity and work closely with all multi-agency partners to ensure that referrals to the MASH meet local thresholds, are of a consistently good quality and are responded to in a manner that has impact and delivers a positive outcome for children.
- You’ll be responsible for providing regular reports to the MASH Governance Board about performance including highlights, exceptions and progress on any areas requiring remedial action and improvement.
- You’ll ensure that the team meets specific performance targets through effective management, monitoring and reporting arrangements are in place and working satisfactorily.
About you
We are keen to hear from you if you have strong leadership skills and a passion for continuous improvement as you lead by example. You will have a passion for working with children and young people, senior leaders within the council, and multi disciplinary partner agencies.
We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.
You must:
- Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration.
- Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently.
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible and creative working arrangements
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
- We offer a generous mileage allowance
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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