Area Manager - MOR12391

Moray Council; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 67,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Moray Council in Moray is seeking an experienced leader to manage the locality social work team, ensuring quality and effective services for children and families. You will provide robust supervision, support continuous professional development, and drive integrated services with partners.

The role requires post-qualifying experience, supervisory responsibilities, and strong IT and change-management skills.

Qualifications

• Post-qualifying experience in Children’s Services social work.
• Supervisory experience within a locality team or equivalent.
• Experience in multi-agency working and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, guidance and support on assessing need, managing risk, implementing plans and evaluating outcomes.
• Oversee and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of services against standards.
• Identify development needs, provide supervision, and promote continuous improvement.
• Lead service improvement in line with The Promise and local priorities.
• Promote a relational culture across the service with positive role modelling.

Skills

Leadership

Staff supervision

Professional development

Multi-agency working

Risk assessment

Analytical skills

Change management

IT skills

Public sector experience

Education

CQSW or CSS or Dip SW

SSSC Registration

Job description

• Lead and manage the locality social work team through relational and motivational leadership, ensuring the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of services for children and families.
• Provide robust staff support and supervision and promote continuous professional development across the team.
• Ensure integrated services for children and families in the locality, working collaboratively with statutory and voluntary partners.

Contribute to the transformation of services for children and families in Moray in line with The Promise.

Responsibilities

• Provide direction, guidance and support on assessing need, managing risk, implementing plans and evaluating outcomes. Ensure proportionate responses to risk that keep children and families at the centre of decision-making.
• Oversee and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of services against agreed standards, supporting the delivery of the Children’s Services plan and The Promise.
• Identify practice and staff development needs, provide effective supervision and support, and promote continuous improvement within the team.
• Lead and contribute to service improvement in line with The Promise and national and local priorities, identifying development needs across the service.
• Promote a relational culture across the service, supporting staff with kindness, understanding and positive role modelling.

The Individual

• Considerable post-qualifying experience in Children’s Services social work.
• Previous supervisory responsibilities within a locality team or equivalent setting.
• Experience in multi-agency working.
• Experience of assessing need and risk in Children’s Services practice.
• CQSW or CSS or Dip SW and SSSC Registration
• Ability to chair meetings effectively.
• Ability to provide purposeful leadership in team and multi-agency settings.
• Effective analytical and evaluative skills, with the ability to think clearly.
• Capacity to manage change.
• Ability to use a range of IT packages.
• Able to develop services and projects.
• Able to develop services and projects.
• Ability to consider services in their structural and organisational context.
• Ability to use financial and human resources effectively.
• A strong professional commitment to integrated working and to the role of social work.
• Effective chairing skills.
• Sound knowledge of social work theory and research, with the ability to:
• (i) relate theory and research to practice;
• (ii) promote the development of informed practice.
• Able to liaise, plan and negotiate effectively at a senior level and across agency boundaries.
• A commitment to deliver quality services to agreed standards.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a management team.
• Ability to travel efficiently and effectively between work locations across Moray to meet the service’s operational requirements. Due to Moray’s rural nature, this is normally undertaken using a car or van.
• Effective communication, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Ability to be available and accessible to staff.
• Capacity to make decisions under pressure.
• Ability to form productive and enabling working relationships.
• Ability to work with honesty and integrity, in line with SSSC codes of practice.
• Willingness to work outside office hours.
• Ability to work as a leader across different offices and staff teams, according to service requirements.
• Ability to work in an open-plan or shared office.

This post is considered to be a ‘Regulated Role’ under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020. Under the Act it is a legal requirement for an individual undertaking a regulated role with children or protected adults to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme.

Therefore, the successful candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme Update check prior to any formal offer of employment being made by Moray Council

Closing Date: 27th November 2026

Hourly Rate: £31.39

Contact person: Donna Sutherland, Service Manager / [e-mail] / Phone no: 01343 557922