Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
21/01/2019
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 04/02/2019 23:59
Hours per week:
37 hours per week
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Employment Location:
Middlesbrough
Further Information
Reference:R0000215
Department: Children's Safeguarding Services
Service Area: Children's Services
Salary: GBP 36,153 - GBP 38,052
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contractual Status: Permanent
Please Note
Applicants will no longer be able to use their North East Jobs account to apply. If you are internal to Middlesbrough Council, you will be required to use your Staff Portal credentials to log in. Alternatively, if you are an external applicant, you will need to register as a ‘new user’, and use the log on credentials created for any future applications.
Following a huge investment in resources an opportunity has arisen for a new Assistant Team Manager position within the Children's Safeguarding Service.
The assistant team manager post has arisen within the children's Looked After/Care Proceedings social work team in Middlesbrough.
We are committed to driving forward our agenda for change and implementing restorative practice and the Signs of Safety model as part of transformational regeneration across Middlesbrough.
Middlesbrough is a fantastic place to live, learn and work. You will be joining a supportive and innovative department and be integral in changing the face of Middlesbrough and enabling the town and its people to grow and prosper.
The assistant team manager will have responsibility for supporting the team manager in supervising and guiding social workers and family support workers when working with children and their families, they will be expected to deputise in the team manager's absence and support the team manager in attending and chairing meetings, supporting social workers with care proceedings work including attending court hearings, permanency planning and working with Looked After children to ensure stability within their placements. The assistant team manager will also hold a reduced complex case load.
If you have excellent organisational, communication and management / supervisory skills, you may be the person that we are looking for.
You must have experience of working with young people, working within a team and have excellent motivational and negotiation skills.
The successful candidate should hold a BA in SW / DipSW or equivalent with relevant complex social work experience and be completing or have completed post qualification qualifications. Management / supervisory experience is desirable but not essential.
The above post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Closing date: Monday 04th February 2019 by 12 midnight
Please note
This job is closed for applications.