Area Manager Children Looked After and Pathway

The job itself

We have an exciting opportunity available for an Area Manager for Children Looked After and Pathway to join our leadership team. We are looking for a dynamic, experienced and successful Team Manager, who is ready to take the next step into middle management as an Area Manager. This is a permanent post.

The successful candidate will be responsible for Team Managers and their teams, and report to the Head of Corporate Parenting.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council is an innovative Local Authority which constantly strives to improve the standard of services provided to children, families and young people in our area. Our vision is to ensure that vulnerable children and young people receive excellent social work services to keep them safe and to make sure they reach their full potential. We are responding to the challenges we face with energy and innovation.

We are continuing our commitment to further improve our services supported by the Council with increased investment, to deliver high quality services.

We are looking for someone with a can do, positive approach to walk alongside our teams, and help us to achieve our ambitious plans with our children and families.

You will be a confident decision maker, experienced in all areas of children looked after and leaving carer service. You will know what good looks like and be experienced in enabling and developing others to achieve high standards of practice.

You will be a skilled communicator who can demonstrate a commitment to collaborative, and inclusive working. You will be a tenacious leader and represent the council corporately with an anticipated high level of professionalism at all times.

You will be able to work on your own initiative, and also collaboratively - with our partners and within our wider leadership team. You will have an eye for detail, at the same time as identifying opportunities for improving performance and quality of practice. You will have a key role in implementing our plan.

You will have an in depth understanding and experience of working with children, young people and their networks, as well as a demonstrable commitment to the values of family involvement, relational approaches and empowerment.

You will be passionate about ensuring our most vulnerable children are supported to achieve their full potential. You will be an innovative and creative child centred practitioner, be a solution focussed, reflective and analytical in your approach.

You will be able to build positive working relationships with children and young people, their families, professionals and carers as well as respectfully challenge when appropriate.

In East Riding we really value positive relationships. Therefore, it is essential that the post holder is able to work relationally with others with a flexible and adaptable approach – always demonstrating their commitment to working to the highest possible standards whilst remaining at all times child centred.

To apply for this post you must have a social work qualification and be registered with Social Work England.

If this is you, then we want to hear from you. Apply now or contact Sue Nicholson – sue for an information conversation.

We really value all of our leaders and practitioners and it is our fundamental belief that our staff are the most important asset in fulfilling our responsibility to provide a quality service to children, young people and their families. We therefore want to invest in you and your development, for area managers this means the offer of a bespoke leadership programme.

We care about your career and will help you to identify your own goals and work with you to support you to achieve that within East Riding.

Our social workers and practitioners describe East Riding as ‘a family’; we really value our relationships with each other, with the families we support, and our partner agencies. We offer flexible working approaches because we want you to be able to enjoy your own family time and we know that this is important to our staff. We listen to what our managers, social workers and practitioners are telling us and work hard to respond…