Childrens Services Manager (Bairns Hoose and SCIM), Inverness

Job Description

Post Title: Childrens Services Manager (Bairns Hoose and SCIM)
Location: Inverness
Hours: 35 hours per week
Duration: 12 Months
Salary: HC12 £60,733 - £66,284

Interviews will take place on week beginning 2nd Devember 2024

Salary placing will normally be at the first point of the scale.

Contact Person: Donna Munro Tel: 01463 644465 Gillian Buchanan E-mail: Gillian.buchanan@highland.gov.uk

Job Purpose: This CSM post is responsible for the delivery of the Scottish Child Interview Model (SCIM) and implementing the Bairns’ Hoose standards across Highland.

Bairns’ Hoose is a model to provide holistic support to children who have been victims or witnesses of abuse, are under the age of criminal responsibility and whose behaviour may have caused harm. Based on the Icelandic ‘Barnahus’ model the ‘four rooms approach’ aims to provide a single setting for Child protection, Health, Recovery & Whole Family Support and Justice. It’s important to reduce the number of times children are asked to retell their stories as this can be difficult and retraumatising. Instead, trauma-informed practice is prioritised to support the child’s recovery in a safe, respectful, friendly, and welcoming environment. Bairns’ Hoose includes the Scottish Child Interview Model - a new approach to joint investigative interviewing. It maintains the focus upon the needs of the child in the interview and minimises the risk of further traumatisation. The CSM post will support the implementation of Bairns’ Hoose standards and continued roll out of SCIM across Highland, with a focus on local solutions for Highland communities.

The CSM shall also be working with the leadership team to ensure that the transformational vision of the Promise is embraced, supported, planned and operationalised across children’s services. Voice, participation, lived experience and children rights must be protected, respected, and at the heart of Bairns’ Hoose, This leadership role has strong overall accountabilities in respect of Highland’s child protection statutory duties in ensuring robust assessment of vulnerable children and developing and supporting recovery for the child

Please APPLY ONLINE. If you are unable to apply online and you wish to request an offline application pack, please contact HR Transactions Team, T: 01955 608279 (24 hour voicemail) quoting the post reference number above.

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The Highland Council understands that diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, and being fair and inclusive. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, representative of the communities we serve and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be under-represented in our workforce.

As a disability confident employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria requirements for the post.

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Requirements

• Degree/Diploma in Social Work or relevant professional qualification, with specialist knowledge of child protection.
• SSSC Registered
• Knowledge of current legislation, policy and practice in area of functional responsibility.