Team Manager-Care Leavers
Team Manager-Care Leavers
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Job Description
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall Glenfield LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker / Fixed Location Worker
Salary:47694 - 52155 (plus market premia of 3000 ) per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours:37 hours per week
Contract Type:Permanent
Closing Date: 31st July2024
Interview Date(s): 6th August 2025 in person
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a team manager within our Leaving Care Service. We are looking for a motivated individual who is passionate about positive outcomes for our Care-Experienced young people.
The Team Manager role is a vital role within teams to support high-quality service delivery.
This role will enable you to use your expertise knowledge and skills to lead a busy team in delivering consistent high-quality services to our Care-Experienced young people in accordance with the departments policies and procedures and within regulatory and statutory guidelines.
You will be joining a supportive and established service. You will work closely with the Service Manager to develop opportunities for our Care-Experienced Young People as they move into adulthood ensuring improved outcomes for our young people.
Leicestershire is an excellent place to work. The service has been judged Outstanding by Ofsted. We pride ourselves on our organisational culture of learning and purposeful practice with a trauma-informed lens. We offer a nine-day fortnight and you will have access to learning and development opportunities within the organisation.
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders please see our policy statement.
About You
Please refer to these 7 points when making your application giving examples as evidence of how you meet them
To apply for this post you must:
- An understanding of and commitment to Equal Opportunities and the ability to apply this to all situations. Must be able to perform all duties and tasks with reasonable adjustment where appropriate in accordance with the provisions of the Equality Act 2010
- Professional Social Work Qualification
- Experience of statutory childcare work including safeguarding child protection and court processes.
- The ability to analyse information to reach sound decisions often under pressure and to take responsibility for their outcome and regular reporting to the Service Manager
- Able to manage resources and budgets effectively and efficiently ability to apply quality standards in performance management to improve staff performance and outcomes for children and young people.
- Experience in managing staff and motivating staff and partners to work effectively for change. Good at prioritisation and managing a demanding workload to collect analyse and interpret performance and statistical data and drive positive change with staff and supporting the development of the quality of practice.
- Knowledge of the principles of staff supervision continuing professional development performance management and the experience of care leavers.
You must also have an understanding of and commitment toequality diversity and inclusion.
In addition we also expect you to shareour commitment to our valuesand will ask you to provide 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 in balancing their working lives with other commitments. Therefore wherever possible we will consider working arrangements that suit an individuals personal circumstances while 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 term-time working part-time hours compressed hours flexible start and finish times home/remote working etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style that determines where it can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories on the Our Working Stylespage on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussionplease contact:
Mandeep Sandhu Gritton Service Manager: Care Leavers and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
Tel: 0
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 explaining how you meet the criteria listed in the About You section above. For more information see the How to Applysection 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.
If you have any technical issues when applying for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning0(select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: applying for this post you agree to ourTerms and Conditions.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
