Team Manager - Coalville and Loughborough

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: Albert and Victoria Building Albert Street Loughborough LE11 2DW

Worker Category: Field Based Worker

Salary per annum plus market premia (prorata for parttime)

Working Hours:37

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 18th April 2025

Interview Date(s): TBC

About the role

Join our dedicated team at Leicestershire County Council as we strive to ensure the safety and wellbeing of children in our community. We are currently seeking a dynamic individual for the permanent position of Team Manager Coalville / Loughborough

We are seeking a Social Work Team Manager with current Social Work England registration with extensive social work experience in a child protection statutory setting. Preferably with some management experience.

You will provide leadership to your team who will consist of a senior practitioner 4 social workers support and assessment workers (who undertake parenting assessments) and 2 support staff (who supervise contact) 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 whole team and will be expected to meet objectives and ensure performance targets are achieved.

Childrens safeguarding teams complete work with children who are subject to child protection plans and Public Law Outline/initial care proceedings.

Utilising a relationship/traumabased approach where the young person is at the heart of everything we do.

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

For information on our approach to the recruitment of exoffenders please see our policy statement.

About You

To apply for this post you must have:

• Social Work degree or equivalent e.g. CQSW DipSW (with specialism in childrens services) approved by Social Work England and evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience of statutory childcare social work including Child in Need safeguarding child protection and care proceedings.
• Experience of supervising staff and/or social work students.
• Management experience.
• Experience of using performance indicators to monitor and improve performance.
• Ability to analyse information to reach sound decisions often under pressure and take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Service Manager.
• Ability to apply the principles of equal opportunities in service provision and employment promoting antidiscriminatory practice.

You must also have an understanding of and commitment to equality diversity and inclusion.

In addition we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

Interested in Flexible Working

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role please contact the person named below. This may include requests for termtime working parttime hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

For more information or an informal discussion please contact:

Emily Hannaby Roberts Service manager

Email:

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the About You section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore if you are interested please submit your application as early as possible.

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