Children's Team Manager - Leaving Care

Our Client, Bury Council, is seeking a Team Manager to join their Children's Edge of Care Team.

Fantastic payrate of £45 per hour!

Are you a Childrens Social Worker, passionate about making a difference in your community? Do not miss out on this fantastic opportunity!

Responsibilities of this role:

• The leadership, direction and supervision of a social work team.
• Provision of a child protection investigative and intervention service.
• Provision of a duty service to deal with new referrals to Children’s fieldwork services.
• Support of field social workers through the process of supervision and by attending conferences, reviews, joint interviews, initial core groups and other meetings where appropriate.
• Taking responsibility for key decisions in respect of individual children and young people, in accordance with departmental and statutory guidelines.
• Allocation of the workload in accordance with priorities agreed with Senior Managers, and ensuring fair distribution within the team.
• Ensuring child protection conferences, reviews, core groups etc are convened efficiently and taking the chair of such meetings in accordance with Departmental procedures.
• Ensuring agreed childcare plans are implemented in order to promote and safeguard the interests of individual children and young people.
• Participation in the development and management of integrated local services to children in need and their families through joint working and partnerships with significant agencies, organisations and groups in the area.
• Monitoring the level and quality of social work practice, so that high standards of service to the public are promoted.

Requirements of this role:

• Must be a Qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England.
• Must have minimum of 2 years’ experience as Social Work Team Manager.

Benefits of working through Reed, include:

• Dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
• Aftercare service delivered by Candidate Care Team.
• Free CV building and Interview support.
• Free DBS checks.
• Weekly payroll.
• PAYE payroll option with additional benefits including holiday pay, healthcare, pension plus more.
• CPD contributions.
• Access to full UK jobs market with top tier status across many public and private sector clients.
• Supporting the Reed Foundation which has given £9.5m to charity since 2010.

Does this role interest you? Apply today!