REGIONAL RESEARCH ON SUPERVISION
of social workers and other care workers working in integrated and multi-disciplinary teams setting in child protection
Terre des hommes is seeking a highly professional lead researcher, to lead a team of researchers working in 8 countries of South East Europe.
Child Protection Hub seeks to conduct a qualitative research across the region to explore the different understandings, needs and standards, factors hindering or promoting supervision mostly involved in the multidisciplinary case management work. Such research will target members of multidisciplinary teams and other responsible structures for offering and ensuring close professional supervision for child protection workers, school psychologists/social workers and other multidisciplinary teams’ members.
The research aims to answer primary research questions to achieve the following objectives:
▪ To provide a snapshot of supervision for social workers and other social care workers in the multidisciplinary team setting in child protection for 8 countries Areas: multidisciplinary work (social assistance, education, health, police)
▪ To explore the attitudes, behaviours and perceptions of social workers and other workers working in an MDT context regarding supervision
▪ To identify key factors that hinder and promote supervision practices in the multidisciplinary teams’ contexts ▪ To provide a comparative analysis in the region
▪ To identify good practices in supervision
▪ To provide recommendations for strengthening supervision across the region and specific countries
In order to conduct this regional research, ChildHub is looking for a highly professional lead researcher, to lead a team of researchers working in 8 countries of South East Europe (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Moldova, Romania, Serbia).
Scope of Service
The International lead researcher in close collaboration with the Europe Child Protection and Safeguarding Adviser and the ChildHub team, will be responsible to: ▪ Support the development and provide technical oversight of the research at the regional level; ▪ Develop the research methodology that can be followed by each participating country, including desk review, interview and/or survey with target group; ▪ Develop with the ChildHub team, the study frame, questions, research protocol and methodologies with all related tools; ▪ Conduct a regional workshop for the national the researchers for the countries involved; Oversee the 8 in-country qualitative studies with the respective local researchers; ▪ Develop the regional synthesis of the 8 country studies and recommendations for designing interventions to improve supervision in the MDT settings (in English). The research report is expected to be presented at ChildHub’s next regional conference (date TBC).
Profile
▪ Demonstrated knowledge and experience in child protection/ child rights, supervision, and development of a welfare system for children. ▪ Substantial research experience, and publications in the field of child protection, child welfare ▪ Sound knowledge of research methodologies ▪ Proficiency in English both in writing and orally ▪ Ability to work with an international team of researchers ▪ Very good writing skills ▪ Ability to work with tight deadlines ▪ Have strong interpersonal skills ▪ Availability
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