Deputy Team Manager - Integrated Front Door

Bath and North East Somerset Council; Keynsham; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Bath and North East Somerset Council's Children’s Services are seeking a qualified social worker for a temporary maternity cover to lead a team of practitioners and support staff. You will oversee new requests for service, assess risk, and coordinate signposting to Early Help or partner agencies to meet children’s needs.

You will work closely with health, education, police and adult services, applying relationship-based, systemic approaches and trauma-informed practice, while supervising and

Qualifications

• Must have a relevant social work qualification.
• Minimum of 3 years social work experience.
• Supervisory experience and/or PEPS qualification preferred.
• Strong knowledge of legislative framework governing children's services.
• Knowledge of theory and practice in social work.
• IT skills to operate standard electronic systems.
• Well developed emotional literacy.
• Passion, commitment and motivation to support vulnerable families.

Responsibilities

• Oversee responses to new requests for service in social care and establish risk levels.
• Signpost to Early Help or partner agencies as appropriate.
• Collaborate with health, education, police, and other services to meet children’s needs.
• Support and supervise less experienced workers and contribute to team development.

Education

Social work qualification

Job description

At Bath & North East Somerset Council we have one overriding purpose – to improve people’s lives.

Temporary Maternity Cover

If your passion is around collaborative work with families, centred on building relationships in order to help families develop resilience and make changes for their children, then we are the Local Authority for you. Even at the front door, through brief interactions with families who have been referred in, our aim is to promote therapeutic conversations to enhance families’ experiences of working with social care. Our practice model is underpinned by relationship-based, systemic approaches to facilitate change, alongside trauma informed practice.

Bath and North East Somerset Children’s Services are rated Good by OFSTED, with continued vision and drive to improve further.

About the Role

You will work in partnership with a Team Manager and another Deputy Team Manager to lead an enthusiastic team consisting of Senior Social Work Practitioners, Social Workers, Early Help information officers, Referral and Information Officers and Business Support staff.

This rewarding role will see you overseeing the responses to new requests for service into social care, establishing the level of risk, signposting on to Early Help or partnership agencies where appropriate. You will work closely with our colleagues across the service and will have established partnerships with agencies across health, education, police, support services and adult services to ensure we can respond as effectively as possible to the needs of children, young people, and their families.

You will be able to evidence a strong ability to analyse information and make robust decisions for children and families, as well as demonstrating your capability to work constructively with partner agencies to support families. Applicants need to have very strong organisational skills to manage and prioritise their work effectively and in a timely way, and will be committed to working as part of a team to support colleagues in delivering optimum services to children and families.

You will be committed to understanding and promoting the performance of the team to ensure children are receiving a consistent and high quality service. Ideally you will have management and supervisory experience, or will have relevant experience of supporting less experienced workers in a social care setting.

You can expect:

• A comprehensive induction
• Regular supervision – at a minimum of monthly one to one
• Monthly Peer Circles to ensure strong relationships and support between Deputy Team Managers across the teams
• Extensive training opportunities, which include SARI workshops around culturally sensitive practice, opportunities to join a 6-month long training in Systemic Supervision delivered by the Centre for Systemic Social Work, attachment based workshops, and trauma-informed workshops.
• Excellent business support with dedicated staff supporting the team
• Tri-annual Social Work Conferences with guest speakers who are experts in the field. Examples of previous conferences have included Donald Forrester, Brid Featherstone, Rebecca Carr-Hopkins, ‘Annie’ from Surviving Safeguarding, and Dr Karen Treisman.
• Paid Social Work England membership renewal
• Access to Research in Practice
• Access to coaching
• Laptop to promote flexible working, to enhance your work-life balance
• Relocation Payments are available
• A stable leadership team
• A stable and committed team, with low rates of agency workers, and low vacancy rates

About You

To apply you will have:

• A relevant social work qualification
• At least 3 years social work experience
• Ideally you will have supervisory experience, and/or a PEPS qualification
• Sound knowledge of the legislative framework and guidance that governs children’s services, and safeguarding children
• Knowledge of theory and practice applicable to social work
• IT skills to enable operation of standard electronic systems.
• Well developed emotional literacy
• Passion, commitment, and motivation to support the most vulnerable families in our area

Please note: that this advert may close earlier than the stated closing date due to high demand. We advise all interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

*Please note, BANES Council operates a policy of prior consideration for roles for any individual on the Council’s at-risk register (redeployee). This means should a redeployee express an interest in this role, providing they meet the essential criteria for the role they will be considered ahead of external applicants.

About Bath and North East Somerset Council.

Working at Bath and North East Somerset provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.

Why Bath and North East Somerset Council?

We offer a wide range of benefits, to ensure that you are paid fairly for your work, have the flexibility to enjoy a great work/life balance, and have the support you need. Go to https://jobsandcareers.bathnes.gov.uk/why-work-us/our-benefits

At Bath and North East Somerset Council we have one overriding purpose – to improve peoples lives. Find out more about our values at https://jobsandcareers.bathnes.gov.uk/why-work-us/our-values

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us. Find out more on our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/equality-and-diversity

We are a Disability Confident Employer – find out more at https://shorturl.at/ajrsW

The Council is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applications for job-share, part-time and flexible working arrangements are welcomed and will be considered in line with business needs.

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Safeguarding Statement

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable groups and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of this commitment anyone working in a post with children or vulnerable groups will be expected to undertake an Enhanced DBS check with/without barred list checks.