The Child and Family Agency was established on 1st January 2014 and is responsible for a range of statutory functions including provision of child protection, alternative care, specified regulatory services and a range of family support services. The Agency has commenced a major improvement programme with significant focus on Practice, Culture and Structure.

The Agency currently has responsibility for a budget of circa €1.2billion and delivers its services through over 5,500 people in 259 locations across the Country.

The Child and Family Agency has responsibility for the following range of services:
• Child Protection and Welfare
• Parenting, Family Support and Early Help Services
• Alternative Care
• Birth Information & Tracing and Adoption
• Tusla Education Support Services (TESS)
• Children’s Service Regulation
• Counselling and Therapeutic Supports

Further information is available on www.tusla.ie

Child Safeguarding Statement Compliance Unit:
Tusla under Sections 10- 13, Part 2, of the Children First Act 2015 enacted December 2017 are responsible to maintain a register of non-compliance with child safeguarding statements by relevant persons or organisations.

Key Working Relationships:
• Tusla Stakeholders and Other regulatory agents in the state.
• Providers of Relevant work with children

Main Duties and Responsibilities
Accountability
• Take responsibility for managing all aspects of the unit, managing resources, timelines and delivering status reports feeding into the overall aims of the unit.
• Have a core understanding of best practice in Quality Assurance and regulatory compliance in relevant Children’s Services.
• Have a core understanding of best practice in examination of child safeguarding systems.
• Demonstrates good organisational skills
• Provide significant contribution to the development of Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring that they are implemented and appropriately reviewed for effectiveness

Professional Development
• Be able to identify training and professional development needs in both self and team members
• Demonstrate ongoing commitment to ongoing professional development

Judgements and Decision Making
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of the Children First Act 2015, particularly articles 10 – 13.
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of how the Children First Act 2015 and the Children First Guidelines, as issued by the Department of Children, Disability and Equality interact with each other.
• Demonstrate competent data analysis and information screening.
• Possess excellent attention to detail and an ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data as well as demonstrating and ability to focus on higher level overview.
• Demonstrate ability to evaluate information and provide sound judgement and safe professional practice and adhere to relevant legislation, regulations and standards.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Excellent decision making and analytical skills.
• Make recommendations to the National Registration and Enforcement Panel in respect of enforcement actions.
• Oversee the enforcement functions of the office.
• To contribute substantially to the business planning for the office.
• To control, monitor and report business activities within the remit of the unit by identifying key performance indicators and ensuring systems are in place to effectively achieve appropriate targets.

Communicating with respect
• To demonstrate an ability to build effective professional rapport with colleagues and other key stake holders.
• To create and maintain a positive work environment by leading through Tusla’s core values of trust, respect, kindness, and empowerment.
• Demonstrate good customer service and conflict management skills.
• Demonstrate an ability to build and maintain partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Create and maintain effective reporting, recording and administrative systems

Building Rewarding Relationships
• To manage stakeholder information and communications.
• Assist with the roll out of process and systems training and briefings where required
• To demonstrate an ability to build effective professional rapport with colleagues and other key stake holders.
Teamwork and Collaboration
• To demonstrate an ability to build effective professional rapport with colleagues and other key stake holders.
• To create and maintain a positive work environment.
• Demonstrate good customer service and conflict management skills.
• Demonstrate an ability to build and maintain partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide effective, supportive and progressive supervision to Compliance Support Officers and other direct reports.

Creating Services of the Future
• Identify business needs, set expectations and identify improvement opportunities.
• Comply with and contribute to the development of policies, procedures, guidelines

Delivering Quality Services
• To oversee the implementation of National Business Plans and strategic targets.
• To Manage the Child Safeguarding Statement Compliance Support Unit administrative processes.
• To oversee the processing and assessment of notified information to the office.

Health & Safety
• Comply with and contribute to the development of policies, procedures, guidelines and safe professional practice and adhere to relevant legislation, regulations and standards.
• Have a working knowledge of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Standards as they apply to the service for example National Standards for Child Protection and Care and comply with associated Tusla – Child and Family Agency protocols for implementing and maintaining these standards as appropriate to the role.
• To support, promote and actively participate in sustainable energy, water and waste initiatives to create a more sustainable, low carbon and efficient health service.

The above Job Description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him/her from time to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in office.

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Applicants must by the closing date of application have the following:
• Hold a professional qualification in social work, social care, or psychology or another discipline as relevant to the specific requirements of this role.
• If the applicant’s profession is regulated by CORU;
o Be registered in the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU
o Maintain live annual registration on the Social Workers Register maintained by the Social Workers Registration Board at CORU.
• Three years’ relevant post qualification experience.
• The requisite knowledge and ability (including a high standard of suitability, professional and leadership ability) for the proper discharge of the duties of the office.

Health
A candidate for and any person holding the office must be fully competent and capable of undertaking the duties attached to the office and be in a state of health such as would indicate a reasonable prospect of ability to render regular and efficient service.
Character
Each candidate for and any person holding the office must be of good character.