Assistant Team Manager - Children in Care

ACHIEVING FOR CHILDREN COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY; Maidenhead; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community interest company seeks an Assistant Team Manager to oversee social work teams and ensure the best outcomes for children and young people. This role involves management support, casework oversight, and collaboration with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have a degree in social work, experience in team leadership, and a strong understanding of safeguarding laws. Enjoy a supportive work environment with competitive benefits including flexible working options and generous leave entitlements.

Benefits

29 days annual leave

Local Government salary and pension scheme

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification in social work.
• Active Social Work England registration and evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in leading a team and managing performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide management support and casework oversight to social workers.
• Develop and manage direct reports including performance and case planning.
• Attend strategy discussions and contribute to permanency planning.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team Management

Risk Assessment

Multi-agency Collaboration

Education

Degree in Social Work

Job description

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About the role

The role of the Assistant Team Manager is to provide management support and casework oversight and professional supervision to social workers, family support workers and joint working with Personal Advisors. The Assistant Team Manager will support the team manager and social workers to pursue the best possible outcomes for children and young people through good value arrangements, secure stability and permanence for vulnerable children and young people.

The role includes the development and management of their direct reports including performance, target setting and case work, the role will require completing reports of a high quality to a range of stakeholders, case planning, case analysis and evidence of thorough risk assessment throughout, and achieving agreed targets. Regular attendance and contribution to strategy discussions, stability meetings and permanency planning will be expected whilst putting the children and young people at the centre of the work. Relationships with children in care, care leavers and families should be developmental and progressive which includes seeking and engaging the voices of children, young people and families in the decisions, activities, evaluation, service development and design.

For more information please get in touch with Laura Roche at [e-mail]

About you

• Educated to a degree level with a relevant professional qualification in social work.
• Active Social Work England registration and proven evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in leading a team, undertaking line management, performance management and change management.
• Applicants must be able to drive, have a full, valid driving license
• Experience of supervision or management of people within children's social care.
• Strong experience of attending and contributing to complex multi-agency and multi-professional meetings.
• Strong knowledge of the legal framework relating to Safeguarding, Children in Care and Asylum-seeking children.

About our benefits

We are focused on creating a positive supportive environment, where you will have access to a really wide range of resources, as well as a competitive salary and all the perks to enable hybrid working. In AfC you will also have access to:

• 29 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days after 2 years and 35 days after 4 years with an additional day off in your birthday month (Or for term-time workers, your leave entitlement consists of the non-working periods in your contract)
• Tailored induction sessions commencing on the date you start working for AfC
• Local Government salary and pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension)
• Flexible working options - helping to keep a good work life balance
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of staff benefits and discounts
• An excellent learning and development offer to support your career pathway

To find out about all of the breadth of benefits of working for Achieving for Children click here . For our social work offer click here . For our Recruitment Journey, click here.