Team Manager- Fostering

Bolton Council; Bolton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in Bolton is seeking an experienced Social Worker to supervise the Fostering Service, involving team management and support. The ideal candidate will be socially work qualified and registered with SWE, with a passion for innovation in service delivery. Responsibilities include supervising staff, ensuring service quality, and enhancing operational practices. Competitive salary with rewards and benefits for employees. Flexible working options available to promote work-life balance.

Benefits

Exclusive gym membership prices

Generous annual leave

Pension Scheme

Employee wellbeing and support services

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience.
• Experience supervising staff or students.
• Understanding of Family and Friends / Connected Persons.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Social Workers and a Family Support Worker.
• Monitor service provision and assist with recruitment.
• Provide a fresh perspective on established practices.

Skills

Full Driving Licence

Experience in fostering

Team management

Dynamic and creative approach

Education

Social Work Qualified and Registered with SWE

Job description

Grade : K scp 39 £50,269- scp 43 £54,495 plus Essential Car User Allowance up to £963pa

Contract : Permanent

Essential Requirement : Full Driving Licence, 3 years post qualification experience, Experience of staff or student supervision.

Essential Qualification : Social Work Qualified and Registered with SWE

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

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The Role

The role is an exciting opportunity to build on our highly regarded Fostering Service, which works with mainstream Foster Carers.

The role will include the supervision of Social Workers and a Family Support Worker, joint responsible for the allocation of work, the monitoring of service provision, assisting with overseeing the recruitment aspect of the team when required and also supervising the Deputy Manager who is part of the service.

Development work and providing a fresh perspective to well-established routines and practice is welcomed.

The role is flexible working in tandem with the Deputy Team Manager to ensure that the management responsibility for the team is provided daily and out of hours where necessary.

The team prides itself on close teamwork, a high level of commitment to the service and good staff retention.

The value base of the Fostering Team is an honest, trustworthy and nurturing approach, assessing Family members and offering support under the Fostering framework.

We work closely with all the children services across social care and work equally as closely with other services that we provide a provision to.

About You

You need to be Social Work qualified with experience in fostering, you would benefit from some understanding of Family and Friends / Connected Persons as you will also work closely with this manager and may be required to oversee this team when the Manager for this service is on annual leave.

You will have some experience of managing students, professionals and operational teams.

You need the passion to inspire others and to not only maintain what works well, but to also create new ways of working to promote the growth and relevance of the service.

You will be dynamic, creative and innovative and prepared to work with Mainstream Foster Carers.

You will also have an insight into the care and support needed by our Foster Carers and be prepared to “go the extra mile” for our carers.

If you think you could be what we're looking for, please apply now with your CV and covering letter explaining how you meet the requirements of the role as covered in the job description and person specification

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description / person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

Ready to apply? Then please click Apply and upload your anonymised CV and supporting statement discussing your relevant skills and experience and explain how you believe they make you a strong fit for this role.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

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