Limerick
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
Purpose of role:
The Deputy Regional Manager will:
•Provide oversight and support the management of all areas that fall under the remit of the Region within Children’s Residential Services.
•To Provide as required governance, management and oversight of the identified risks and risk escalations.
•Provide oversight and management of the Regional Teams.
•Deliver these services in line with national policy and standards.
•Be required to manage national services or projects, as may be assigned, from time to time, by the Regional Manager and Service Director CRS.
•Proactively manage delegated authority, as may be assigned from time to time, by the Regional Manager/ Service Director CRS.
•Be responsible for relevant change processes to realign service delivery in line with national policy direction.
•Contribute to regional and national working groups and policy formation as appropriate, for example at project groups, policy implementation etc.
•Work closely with the Children’s Residential Regional leads and other leads for National Services (EWS, DSGBV and Commissioning) to ensure that service users have access to the comprehensive range of Tusla services, and those most appropriate to their particular circumstances.
•To work as part of a team to providing oversight ensuring a continuum of care for young people and to support the Child and Family Agency to provide interventions necessary to address the issues that are preventing them from living at home, in foster care or in Community Based Centres in the case of Special Care Interventions.
•To do so up to a point to be determined by their age, need or development, whereby circumstances are such that it becomes more feasible to help prepare them to live independently with the support of our aftercare services.
• The Deputy Regional Manager will be required to be part of an on call arrangement, which from time to time will require weekend and evening cover.