Team Manager Leaving Care Service

Salary and Contract

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

Contract:

1x 2 year Fixed Term contract.

• Full Driving Licence, DBS

• CQSW/DipSW/CSS or equivalent and registered with Social Work England

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Rachael Warburton – Ra

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Team Manager for a 2 Years Fixed Term position within the Leaving Care Team who will also take the responsibility of the service provided to Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking children.

As a Team Manager, you will lead the management, supervision, support and guidance of a team of social workers.

Ensure that the services offered to children are of the highest quality, ensuring effective safeguarding of children and adhering to statutory and legislative requirements.

Ensure excellent standards of work are steered through supervision, quality assurance, performance management and audit.

Drive a culture of care, safeguarding and ambition, ensuring that each young person receives the consistent support and opportunities they need to achieve their potential.

Alongside the management team, Head of Service and Strategic Lead, you will work together to drive forward the vision of improving services to ensure the most vulnerable children in Bolton are safe and their outcomes improved.

You will have at least three years post qualifying experience and a strong understanding of safeguarding and current children’s social care practice.

Skilled in analysing information from multiple sources, assessing risk, and making safe, timely and proportionate threshold decisions for children in need and those requiring protection.

Understand the asylum process of unaccompanied asylum seeking children, have knowledge of Age and Human Rights Assessments or be willing to undergo training.

Excellent communication skills, enabling you to build positive professional relationships, provide clear advice and guidance.

Confident in quality assuring contacts and referrals, presenting accurate and concise information both verbally and in writing.

Resilient and solution-focused, with an ethos of effective team working, partnership working and leadership.

Show transferrable skills to be an effective Team Manager in Children’s Social Care.

Act as a champion for continuous improvement, role modelling high standards of practice, embedding Research in Practice, and contributing positively to ongoing development within Children’s Social Care.

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.

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

We do not offer sponsorship for this role.

We are committed to continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment, giving you access to our service-related benefits.

This post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances.

For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check.

The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s.

Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here.

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible work opportunities
• Access to a Pension Scheme
• Employee wellbeing and support services
• Discounts and exclusive gym membership prices
• Salary sacrifice schemes

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.

Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment; if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.

Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.