Gloucestershire County Council
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire | United Kingdom
Job description
16+ Team Manager (CSC)
Job Location: Gloucestershire
We are currently recruiting for a two Team Managers to join our Gloucestershire 16+ Care Leavers service. The role wll cover either Cheltenham or Stroud
Reward and support
For all your hard work, you will receive the following:
Our vision
Right child, right support, right time, every time
Working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewardling life, especially those who need more help.
We have ambitious improvement and transformation plans to create the optimum conditions within which our staff can make a real difference and improve outcomes for children.
We are a local authority adopting, and training all colleagues in, systemic social work practice. If you would like to join an authority that takes a relational approach to working with families and focuses on what needs to change in the system around a child and family to enable children to thrive, then consider a role with GCC.
About the team
As a 16+ Service Team Manager, you will be accountable for a team of Personal Advisers who are working directly with, care leavers and Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (UASC).
About the role
As a Team Manager, we’ll ask you to lead and support a team of social workers to deliver services of the highest quality. Ensuring statutory duties and best practice is followed, you’ll develop a team plan in line with Children’s Services strategic objectives and provide management oversight on all cases, with a clear understanding of risk. Your role will focus on managing the team’s workflow and quality assuring work through observations, reflective supervision and GCC’s quality assurance framework, as well as contributing towards the development of the framework itself. Through building positive relationships with colleagues within both the service and partner agencies, you will ensure we are able to provide support and protection for vulnerable children and young people across the county.
About youAs well as your experience working at a senior/advanced practitioner level, either wanting to progress to become a manager for the first time, or with experience of line management or leadership, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:
How to apply
For an informal chat about this role, please email [email protected] or [email protected] or apply directly on our website here: Team Manager (gloucestershire.gov.uk)
Additional Information
To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:
Or please find further information on our website: Children's Social Care careers - Gloucestershire County Council
*Please note that our welcome payments and retention payments are subject to tax and national insurance deductions
Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.
This position is subject to a DBS check.
Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities. Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.
It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.
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£49.5k - £51.52k per annum
