Family Connect Safeguarding Team Manager

Telford & Wrekin Council; Dawley; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 59,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market factor allowance

Registration fee reimbursement

Golden Hello £5,000

Free parking

Local Government Pension Scheme

Generous leave entitlement

Job summary

Telford & Wrekin Council in England is seeking a Family Connect Safeguarding Team Manager (Social Worker). This 37 hours per week, permanent post leads a skilled team of social workers and allied staff to deliver high-quality safeguarding and early help.

You will provide leadership, supervision, accountability and performance quality across the service, using a strengths-based approach and proactive multi-agency partnership.

Qualifications

• Leadership and management of a social work team.
• Supervision and accountability for staff.
• Quality assurance of service delivery.
• Strengths-based safeguarding approach.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Family Connect safeguarding team.
• Ensure services are delivered to high standards.
• Coordinate multi‑agency safeguarding work.
• Provide regular supervision and development opportunities.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Quality assurance

Multi‑agency partnership

Job description

• £55,224-58,596 per year
• Permanent
• Full-time
• 7 hours ago
• Job Introduction Family Connect Safeguarding Team Manager (Social Worker) 37 hours per week (permanent) Grade PO16 Qualified £55,224 - £58,596
• Market factor allowance of £3,000
• Full reimbursement of your annual Social Work England registration fee
• Incentive Golden Hello of £5,000, paid in two instalments (paid pro rata for part time hours) £2,000 upon commencing employment with Telford & Wrekin Council. £3,000 when you have completed 2 years' continuous service
• Do you aspire to work for an 'Outstanding' Local Authority? Here at Telford and Wrekin Council, we have been judged to be outstanding overall in terms of effectiveness (the only Authority in the West Midlands with this judgement). Here's just some of the great things Ofsted had to say when they visited us recently:
  • Children are cared for and cared about
  • Social Workers and other staff who support children are very committed and they are exceptionally well trained
  • Children are listened to and their experiences are well understood
  • Senior Leaders aspire to a service for every child that they would welcome for their own
  • Children benefit from a stable workforce which is highly committed and experienced
  • Staff experience a wide range of development opportunities
• We have a great opportunity for a full time Family Connect Safeguarding Team Manager. This busy team is very experienced, highly supportive, friendly and enthusiastic about what they do. Family Connect operates a single point of contact for services accessed by the public and professionals to ensure that the right service is delivered at the right time, in the right place by the right people. Family Connect is a multi agency partnership approach to safeguarding children and young people that support early help and safeguarding decisions. The partnership working provides the platform for timely informed decision making and offers triage support for the purpose of safeguarding children or offering early help and prevention solutions supported by integrated working practices. The Family Connect Safeguarding Team Manager is responsible for Leadership, management, supervision, accountability and quality assurance for a group of social work and other staff within a specific service area to ensure that the service provided is of a consistently high standard and meets the needs of Telford & Wrekin's communities and supports the Council's visions and priorities. Positively engaging in, actively promoting and lead the systemic approach to work being done with children, young people and families. To undertake duties expected of social work managers in line with the Professional Capabilities Framework at advanced level. There's never been a more exciting time to join our service: alongside making a difference to the lives of individuals and families, we're adopting exciting new strengths-based approaches and are passionate about delivering continuous service improvement. And our people are at the heart of this progress: that's why from tailored in-house training to the West Midlands Teaching Partnership, we make sure they have access to the best development opportunities. If you share our passion for making a difference, we would be delighted if you joined us. Telford & Wrekin Council values social work careers and believes in providing good quality experiences to social workers. We are committed to both you and to developing the future social work workforce. We have a robust supervision policy which is geared towards achieving positive outcomes for you as a worker and for the children and families we work with. You will have regular, quality supervision with your line manager. Telford and Wrekin Council takes seriously the responsibility to safeguard and promote the welfare of all the children and young people entrusted to our care and it is our expectation that all staff will share this commitment. We will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce. Completion of an enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check is a requirement for working with children and young people. This post is covered by the Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers.
• We celebrate having a diverse and inclusive culture where people are able to be themselves at work, and everyone has a voice. Posts working with children or vulnerable groups will be subject to an appropriate criminal records check. It is an offence to apply for a role that involves engaging in regulated activity with children and adults in vulnerable circumstances if you are barred from working with one or both of these groups.
• We value our employees and offer staff rewards and plenty of opportunities for personal development and career progression including:
• Competitive rates of pay
• Automatic access to a secure, flexible and tax efficient Local Government Pension Scheme
• Staff benefits and discounts including salary sacrifice schemes
• Free parking
• Generous leave entitlement (24 days rising to 32 days) plus 8 bank holidays and an additional concessionary day
• Free access to our employee assistance programme and confidential counselling