Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
01/08/2022
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 29/08/2022 23:59
Salary:
£43,570 - £47,665
Allowances:
£2,500 lump sum recruitment and retention allowance
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Employment Location:
An approved team location.
Further Information
We currently have some wonderful opportunities to join Durham as a Team Manager.
We would love you to be brave, curious, flexible, nurturing, decisive and a wonderful communicator.
As a Team Manager, you will be leading a creative, supportive team working with Children and Families. You will be supported by our other amazing Team Managers, Social Work Consultants, and the extended senior management team. We offer a really strong training and development offer including an inhouse leadership and development programme.
A recent Team Manager said, ‘she has enjoyed the supportive culture from her peers and other Team Managers.’
Within recent OFSTED inspection our services were deemed as being Good. The inspection recognised our relationship-based practise, our outstanding management team and the fact that we know our service well. Staff, children and their families all spoke about how supported they feel.
In this role, you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day management of the work held within the team, working closely with your social work consultant to ensure that effective support and high-quality services are being delivered to our children and families and work is being produced to a good standard. This is a wonderful opportunity for someone who is wanting to play a key role as part of our management team who wants to make an impact on outcomes for children, young people, and their families.
To apply for this role, you need to be social work qualified, registered with Social Work England, and have considerable post qualifying experience. Previous or current leadership or supervisory experience will be an advantage.
Come and talk to Judith Rayne (Service Manager) via email Judith.Rayne2@durham.gov.uk. Please email Judith with a contact number and she will get back to you; we would love to explore opportunities with you.
Salary: £43,570 - £47,665 plus £2,500 lump sum recruitment and retention allowance (reviewed annually). Salary on appointment is determined by length of service and level of experience.
The following principles guide our work:
• Ensuring the child’s journey and their voice remains central
• Providing help at the earliest opportunity
• Supporting and promoting community resilience through the provision of locally delivered services in local communities, which make sense to families
• Delivering evidence-based interventions with a focus on safe escalation and de-escalation of cases
As Team Manager of a Families First team, you will:
• Create an environment where social work will flourish, and where your team put children and families at the centre of everything they do
• Support the team to embed Signs of Safety as a model of practice so that:
• The quality of relationships is central to the practice of the team
• The team robustly assess risk
• The work of the team with parents, children and young people is collaborative, timely and intensive, and supports families to find their own solutions
• The team challenge constructively
• The team use strength-based language
• The team are clear about what good looks like for each child
• Lead by example, showing integrity, creativity, resilience, and clarity of purpose
• Develop and maintain positive relationships, and be visible and accessible to your team, to children, young people, and families, and to other professionals
In Durham, you will benefit from:
• A senior leadership team that listens and cares about you and your work
• Excellent opportunities for career progression, if you want to broaden your experience or move into other levels of management
• A clear professional development offer, supported by a commitment to offering you 5 days a year to spend in continuous professional development (CPD), and opportunities to access specialist training
• A culture of high expectations, high challenge, and high support
• A culture, which takes pride in and actively celebrates social work
You can read more about these and other benefits of working in Durham in the attached document.
Removal, lodging and separation expenses may be available to the successful candidate if at the time of application for appointment their place of residence is outside the administrative area of County Durham and more than 30 miles in a straight line from their new administrative centre, along with a number of other criteria for eligibility.
Required qualifications: Degree in social work or equivalent social work qualification, e.g., Post Graduate Diploma in Social Work (PDDipSW) Certificate of Qualification in Social Work (CQSW), Diploma in Social Work (DipSW), Certificate in Social Services (CSS) & current Social Work England Registration.
The successful applicant for this post will be required to apply for a Disclosure & Barring Service Enhanced Disclosure.
You may be required to work at any locality to meet service need changes.
Interviews will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams or physically on 23rd September 2022.
Please note this post is not open to job share.
As a disability confident employer, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.
Apply on-line or for further assistance contact Payroll & Employee Services on Email: PESCYPS@durham.gov.uk
In line with the County Council’s Recruitment & Selection Policy, please note that we are unable to accept CV’s. Any information provided on CV’s will not be considered for short-listing purposes.
Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered with Northeast Jobs, including your invite to interview if you are short-listed. Please check your email after the closing date for notification from ‘DONOTREPLY@NORTHEASTJOBS.ORG.UK’ as you will not be notified by any other means.
Please note
This job is closed for applications.