Deputy Team Manager

Wigan Life Centre South; Wigan; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A public service organization in Wigan is seeking a qualified deputy team manager to support day-to-day operations in the Children's First Partnership Hub. The role involves managing a diverse team, ensuring timely decision-making for children's services, and collaborating with multi-agency professionals. Ideal candidates will have substantial social work experience, strong assessment skills, and a deep understanding of child protection legislation and policies.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualifying experience in social work.
• In-depth knowledge of legislation and policies.
• Experience in a multi-agency environment.

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Manager in managing the Children's First Partnership Hub.
• Provide oversight at triage and screening stages.
• Lead and support social workers and CAROs.

Skills

Assessment and decision-making

Child protection knowledge

Multi-agency collaboration

Supervision skills

Education

Qualified social worker

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an additional deputy team manager to join our Children's First Partnership Hub. As deputy team manager in this first point of contact team, you will effectively provide support to the Team Manager for the day-to-day management and leadership of the Childrens First Partnership Hub, including operational oversight of the Early Help Module (EHM) and Liquid Logic Children's Social Care System (LCS) in accordance with statutory guidance and policy. The role will involve management oversight at triage and screening stages of contacts, and ensuring evidence based, and timely decision making for the children and families of the Wigan Borough. You will support the social workers and CAROs to work with a complex and diverse range of needs and risks including child protection, child in need and early help/ Start Well interventions. The role will require you to be able to deputise for the team manager as and when required, including providing day to day direction
of the team, including Social Workers, CAROs and Business Support Officers. You will work collaboratively with multi agency professionals, including Duty and Locality Teams across Social Care and Early Help to provide effective leadership of the service, ensuring that an outcome focused approach for children and young people is used and maintained.

You will be a qualified, driven and enthusiastic social worker who has significant post qualifying experience. You will have excellent assessment and decision-making skills, particularly in relation to child protection, with an in-depth knowledge of legislation, policies, procedures and be informed by learning from serious case reviews on best practice. You will have knowledge of up-to-date research and social work theories, and the ability to support the learning and development of yourself and others. You will have experience of working in a multi-agency environment, supporting staff to manage competing demands, experience of chairing multi agency or multidisciplinary meetings, providing supervision and experience of quality assuring work driving forward excellent practice standards.

Wigan Council has been voted 'Overall Council of the Year' at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve much more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them.

Our dictum is that a vulnerable child's journey to achieving best possible outcomes starts in Children First Partnership Hub.

Our Children First Partnership Hub consists of a Service Manager, 3 Team Managers, 2 Deputy Team Managers, 4 Senior Social Workers, 4 Social Workers, 9 Call Advisors and Referral Officers (CAROs), a Business Manager and 4 Business Support Officers, Education Lead, CIDVA, Health Lead and Police.