Team Manager Family Safeguarding

Bury Council; Bury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Bury Council as a Team Manager Family Safeguarding to shape the future of children's services. This role promises both challenges and rewards, focusing on supporting families and improving outcomes through collaboration and innovative practices. Candidates will lead teams and bring passion for child welfare, ensuring the best support system is in place.

Qualifications

• Experience in safeguarding and working with children and families.
• Ability to lead and manage social work teams effectively.
• Knowledge of Family Safeguarding Model and child welfare practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team comprising social workers and support personnel.
• Oversee cases involving children in need and protection planning.
• Collaborate with various practitioners to enhance family support.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Motivational Interviewing

Education

Relevant Social Work Qualification

Job description

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Become a Children’s Team Manager for Bury and help with our ‘Let’s Do it for Children’ vision.

About the role

We are on the start of a journey in Bury and doing things differently. We consider that Team Managers are an important part of our journey, and we promise to develop your skills and support your learning. We understand that this is one of the most challenging and rewarding roles in Social Work.

We want the best talent in Bury and need practitioners who will help influence the services we are developing. We want to help you to grow, develop confident practitioners and teams and be the best you can be.

We are one of the first Authorities in the North-West to be pioneering the Hertfordshire Family Safeguarding Model of working with families and training will be provided to learn new skills within our Model of practice. You will be working alongside Adult Practitioners, giving you more time and scope to work with children.

Working collectively, we prioritise support, training and development to within child centred practice. If you are enthusiastic about improving the lives and opportunities for children, young people and their families and want to work and develop your practice, then we want to hear from you!

Within Family Safeguarding we use motivational interviewing and a multi-agency approach, where Social Workers, Family Support Workers, Domestic Abuse Practitioners, Recovery Workers, Mental Health Practitioners, and Psychologists collaborate closely to support families to find their own solutions effectively, reducing the need for referrals to other agencies and improving outcomes for families.

We want to invest in you, and we have a clear vision around succession planning for our most talented workers. You will have the support and opportunities to progress your journey in Social Work.

At the heart of everything we do are the children and young people of Bury. We want staff who can form trusted relationships, working with the strengths in families and building on those assets, always looking for solutions to support families to live together safely and for children and young people to thrive

As a Team Manager you will lead a team comprising of an Advanced Social Work practitioner and 5 Social Workers. The team is also made up of a business support officer, domestic abuse officer, domestic abuse practitioner, mental health practitioner, drug and alcohol worker, family support worker and a clinical psychologist.

You will have oversight of children and young people who are subject to child in need and child protection planning, who are subject to pre-proceedings and in care and private law proceedings.

About Bury

The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.

In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way.

Benefits of working for Bury Council

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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.

We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

Next steps

Come and join Team Bury!

If you feel you can use your experience to make a real difference, we would love to hear from you! For an informal discussion about the role please contact Kate Press -Head of Service , on 0161 253 5023 / 07484010335 or [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  Government Administration

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