About the role
Are you an experienced senior Social Work practitioner, looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have the passion and commitment to manage, develop and motivate a team, to achieve the best possible outcomes for children? Then now is the perfect time to join us as a Team Manager in our Family Safeguarding Team!
We use the Family Safeguarding Model and since it’s launch in 2020 we have seen amazing changes throughout Cambridgeshire. It enables our practitioners to work alongside specialist adult workers with domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental health expertise working to identify areas of strengths and areas to improve to implement appropriate plans to produce better outcomes for families. Our practitioners take part in joint monthly discussions with all those working directly with children, young people and families, and have opportunities to develop with our Motivational Interview Training.
If this sounds like an environment where you would thrive, we would love to hear from you! For more information, call Beth on 01223 475920 or email joinus@cambridgeshire.gov.uk.
Interviews will be held week commencing the 18th of September.
In Children’s Services we have a new Executive Director (DCS), new Service Directors, a new Principal Social Worker, and we have separated from Peterborough Children’s Services. Big changes, huh! This gives us an amazing opportunity to reshape what we do and how we do it, and to put Cambridgeshire back on the map. Why not be part of it?
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We support flexible working requests from day one of employment and so we are open to discussing different working patterns to help you bring your best self to work.
What will you be doing?
Day-to-day responsibilities of a Team Manager in Family Safeguarding include:
- Supervision and development of practitioners, identifying areas of strengths and areas to improve and implement appropriate plans to achieve this.
- Manage the delivery of the team to ensure it is a high quality and effective service that responds to the needs of children, young people and their families or carers in a timely manner within statutory guidelines or service specifications.
- Manage the planning, allocation and review of cases and ensure priorities are managed.
- Lead on customer service and stage 1 complaints.
- Manage the recruitment and staffing of the team.
- Provide expert knowledge of safeguarding processes, policy and case law.
- Lead on initiating, developing and sustaining internal and external working relationships with other professionals and partner agencies.
About you
We're looking for confident and dynamic individuals who enjoy making a difference in their local community, are curious and spot things that others might not see, enjoys building relationships and likes to explore possibilities.
You must:
- Be a qualified Social Worker with a Social Work England registration
- Have the ability to work from a variety of locations and travel countywide independently
For a full list of the requirements of the role, please check out the Job Description & Person Specification.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits. Benefits include:
- Flexible and creative working arrangements, including agile working
- Generous annual leave entitlement and flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
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