Team Manager - Support and Safeguarding

Northamptonshire Children's Trust; Manchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Social Work Team Manager to lead a dedicated team focused on children's safeguarding and support. This role involves overseeing complex cases, managing workloads, and ensuring the team meets performance targets. You will utilize a relationship-based approach to deliver effective services, ensuring the well-being and safety of children and young people. The organization values innovation and continuous improvement, offering a supportive environment for professional development. If you are passionate about making a difference in children's lives and have the leadership skills to inspire a team, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

2 Day Induction Programme

Extensive Learning & Development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Local government Pension Scheme

Heavily subsidised car parking

Employee Discount Scheme

28 days annual leave plus 8 Bank Holidays

Employee Assistance Programme

Monthly quality supervision

SWE Registration paid yearly

Qualifications

• Qualified Social Worker with current Social Work England registration required.
• Experience in leadership and team management is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to a team of social workers, ensuring effective workload management.
• Oversee children's support and safeguarding processes, ensuring good outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Budgetary Control

ICT Skills

Relationship-Based Approach

Education

Qualified Social Worker

Level 5 NVQ Management Qualification

Job description

Please Note:

About the role

We are seeking a Social Work Team Manager, with current Social Work England registration, and previous leadership experience in a similar role.

You will provide leadership to your team, which consists of a Team Manager, Advanced Practitioner, who holds complex cases and supports 5 or 6 Social Workers / Senior Social Workers, and a Newly Qualified Social Worker within their team. You will be responsible for allocating and prioritising workloads effectively to ensure the care of the child is paramount, whilst also ensuring you develop your team to provide an effective and efficient service.

The right candidate will have responsibility for the team plan to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved.

What will you be doing?

Children’s support and safeguarding teams complete work with children who are subject to child protection plans, child-in-need plans and Public Law Outline/initial care proceedings. They also support multi-agency practice in completing pre-birth and parenting assessments and work with adolescents focusing on contextualised safeguarding.

Utilising a relationship-based approach, where the young person is at the heart of everything we do, the service will undertake assessments, both statutory and non-statutory, and will focus on intensive, direct work to meet complex needs and manage associated risks. Some packages of support will be led by social workers, others by lead professionals from across the service, including from CFN’s partners. The service wants good outcomes for young people and for them to be safe; adequately housed and supported (with their families wherever possible); physically and emotionally healthy and achieving good outcomes through education, training or employment.

About you

The right candidate will be a qualified Social Worker, with current Social Work England registration, and ideally with a Level 5 NVQ Management qualification, or equivalent relevant experience.

You will have the ability to manage a team and ensure development and performance issues are addressed through support and coaching.

You will have previous budgetary control experience, ICT skills and the ability to represent the service at a more senior level if required.

Our benefits

We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.

We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:

1. 2 Day Induction Programme
2. 2 days Signs of Safety training (social care colleagues)
3. Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
4. Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
5. A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
6. Local government Pension Scheme
7. Heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
8. Employee Discount Scheme
9. 28 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days, after 5 years’ service
10. Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days
11. Employee Assistance Programme
12. Monthly quality supervision
13. SWE Registration paid yearly (social care colleagues)

About us

Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.