Team Manager

Kent County Council; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent County Council in Maidstone is seeking a Team Manager for our children’s services to lead a team of six Social Workers and a Social Work Assistant, delivering high-quality social work to children, young people and families.

You will chair strategy discussions, permanency planning meetings and other professional forums, provide robust supervision, and ensure a positive performance culture to improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 6 Social Workers and a Social Work Assistant, ensuring high-quality social work practice.
• Provide robust supervision and quality assurance of casework within the team.
• Chair strategy discussions, permanency planning meetings and other professional meetings to drive decision making for children in need.
• Foster a positive performance culture to improve outcomes for children and families.

Job description

An exciting personal opportunity has arisen for a Team Manager in Maidstone children's services. You will be joining a management team that is committed to providing high quality social work services to children, young people and their families, working closely with our multi agency partners.

As Team Manager, you will be leading a team of 6 Social Workers and a Social Work Assistant, supported by a Business Support team. You will play a key role within the management team, providing a high standard of social work to our children, young people, and their families. You will be able to evidence extensive knowledge of child protection, and legal processes, including Public Law Outline and pre-proceedings.

You will be required to provide a high-quality level of supervision, evidencing management oversight for the children open to your team, be competent in quality assuring the work of your team along with creating and maintaining good team atmosphere and morale, and therefore you should have some experience of supervising staff. You will be responsible for chairing strategy discussions, permanency planning meetings and other professional meetings to continue towards key decision making for children in need of our service and protection.

You will need to lead, manage and motivate a team to embed a positive performance culture. Above all, you'll be focused on helping children and families to change their lives for the better.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure application to the Disclosure and Barring service and registration as a qualified Social Worker with Social Work England.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving License - The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description / Person Specification.

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.